5 sentences with 'prosaic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word prosaic and other words derived from it.
• « - Bureaucracy: although it may seem a prosaic subject, bureaucracy was and still is the most effective way of organising large groups of people. »
• « In the prosaic politics and social organisation of ancient Egypt, they revolved around the role of the scribes. »
• « The early Christians came to insist, following Paul, that Jesus had been the Messiah, but that the "liberation" he offered was spiritual in nature, rather than having to do with prosaic politics. In other words, the potential to save the soul from damnation exceeded the Old Covenant. »
• « Ironically, the Reformation as the destruction of Christian unity was at least in part the product of prosaic reforms that were already occurring within the Church. »
• « Instead, socialists tended to advocate a more diffuse and prosaic set of goals: workers' rights and protections, support for the independence of former colonies, and eventually sympathy and support for cultural issues around feminism and sexuality. »