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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
See all Example Sentences for prose
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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Instead, the book is full of the prosaic events for which its author is known.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Here, water transport assumes a form that is grandly ritualistic if decidedly prosaic.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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State Farm Arena, in Atlanta, houses a bar accessible to its highest-paying customers that sits on the arena’s literal hardwood floor, only feet from the benches.Andrew Greif, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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The literal collaging in her work complements and sometimes contradicts her purely painterly juxtapositions.Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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