| Rather than gushing down a lush mountainside, the headwaters of the river seen in The Source puddle prosaically beside a suburban high school. |
| More prosaically, he was perhaps the first advertiser to use a pretty girl to advertise a whole range of products, from soap to throat pastilles. |
| More prosaically in our own solar system we see the light of the sun reflected by the material form of planets and moons, asteroids and comets. |
| More prosaically, the Kombai tribe in remote Papua New Guinea swamps hoist their dwellings as much as 30m up towering sago palms to avoid enemies and repel mosquitoes. |
| More prosaically, the Duval family's involvement proves pointless, destabilising and costly. |
| He ached with desire to express and could but gibber prosaically as everybody gibbered. |
