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Sometimes this casual prosiness is unintentionally comic, as when he makes a minor character think of Karen as The loveliest biological achievement That his prehensile eyes had yet approved.

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Too prosy for some tastes, he insists that poems must incorporate the prosiness of life; poetry must be as important as prose.

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Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity.

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They abominate the starched prosiness of the northern Haskell clan into which Sara marries, but they are game.

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For all its sins of flatness and prosiness the Classical School has always taught discipline. 

From Romance Two Lectures by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir