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Recent Examples of prose
Coincidentally, prose writer Percival Everett (American Fiction) recently released his own take on this subject, James (Doubleday, 2024), which garnered big sales and critical plaudits.
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Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Her cool, detached prose style became synonymous with New Journalism in the 1960s and ’70s.
—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
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Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Her cool, detached prose style became synonymous with New Journalism in the 1960s and ’70s.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prose
Adjective
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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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The somewhat prosaic, light tone of most letters is partially motivated by the need to circumvent censorship.—
Francesca Mastruzzo (Tr. Elettra Pauletto),
The Dial,
14 Jan. 2024
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Conrad’s prosaic stories about striving to make it in the magazine industry paled in comparison to the loopy invented dramas of her two frenemies.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2025
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But the recent period of contraction in metaphoric Hollywood is almost ready to be re-labeled an outright existential decline in the literal one.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
17 Jan. 2025
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His 2018 feature debut, the Vietnam War drama Point Man, was a literal dive into the deep end of the cinematic pool.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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