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Recent Examples of prose
Her cool, detached prose style became synonymous with New Journalism in the 1960s and ’70s.
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Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
Librettists supplied composers with heaps of verse for arias and other vocal numbers, alongside chunks of prose recitative that allowed for interstitial exposition.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
His prose choices create a friendly, highly accessible understanding of character and setting.
—Meg Elison, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
There was a lot of freedom; this was going to be a cinematic telling of the story as opposed to a prose journalism telling of the story.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
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Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
Librettists supplied composers with heaps of verse for arias and other vocal numbers, alongside chunks of prose recitative that allowed for interstitial exposition.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
His prose choices create a friendly, highly accessible understanding of character and setting.
—Meg Elison, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
There was a lot of freedom; this was going to be a cinematic telling of the story as opposed to a prose journalism telling of the story.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prose
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This was an obtuse and unpoetic diktat, a showy way to miss the fact that a song’s history—its use over time, by real people, inspired by the exigencies of ritual and action—can inform its meaning more than its mere lyrics ever could.Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
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Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.Sanjena Sathian, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
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Such shots reproduce García Márquez’s knack for wedding the ordinary to the extraordinary, and turning prosaic developments into enduring fables.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
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Much as White had on his farm, Stan grows beyond the limiting confines of the consciousness of the townspeople, transcending the prosaic nature of the reality around him.Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
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Sports UConn's Geno Auriemma, the new winningest NCAA coach, is honored with a literal goat A deep sea creature kept washing ashore in California Oarfish are known to swim in waters 300 to 3,000 feet below the surface.Ayana Archie, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
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The movie’s one outright mistake is suddenly shifting from emotional abuse to a literal assault that inadvertently plays like a queasy bad-taste joke about how artists get screwed.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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