Knausgaard has his own artistic commitment to inexhaustibility a prosaic rather than a painterly one, which manifests itself as a kind of tiring tirelessness.
But he recently suffered an unusual and expensive setback in a battle involving something more prosaic: a parking garage.
Instead, it's typically a more prosaic end: humanity wiped out because an AI tasked with a simple goal (say, creating paper clips, an example that is often used) requisitions all the energy and raw materials on Earth to relentlessly churn out paper clips, outsmarting and out-maneuvering all human attempts to stop it.
Such statements are an affront to most Americans' intelligence which commonsensically applies a prosaic form of the scientific method: They look for the explanation that best fits the facts.
Most investors wouldn't give a fund described as "relatively prosaic, dull, conservative" a second glance.
Most of the time speechwriting is a more prosaic endeavour, writing for moments that are humdrum.
The second half is a more prosaic presentation, sometimes day-by-day, often week-by-week, of the events until his death in 1995, almost at times an expansion of Spender's enormously full social diary.
Over the last ten years the price of oil has spiked thanks to a weak dollar, thus creating the illusion of scarcity despite abundant global supplies of what is a rather prosaic commodity.
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For all the recent improvements at a packed Twickenham Stoop the return was in decidedly more prosaic surroundings, with heavy rain turning the pitch into a quagmire and making handling very difficult.
During my first reading of "Robinson Crusoe" as a child, I knew that I wasn't meeting an action figure, but a mortal touched by the prosaic realities of the sickbed.
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Bayless didn't want to open a taqueria because it was too prosaic.
The pop-up practitioners in Manhattan today are more prosaic: during the summer Kellogg Company launched a pop-up in Times Square promoting, inevitably, Pop-Tarts.
It sounds prosaic, but it's the first thing a planner will want you to do.
Anxious to transform the prosaic into the romantic, his admirers speak of a poet of light and the poetry of silence.
Over the last several weeks, in a multipart series on Obamacare ( part 1, part 2, part 3), a recurring theme I have discussed is the seemingly prosaic virtue of shopping.
In the prosaic world of real estate marketing Mark Segal and Jeffrey Jones have found a rarefied perch.
As a way of keeping their pulses steady, some investors have favoured more prosaic businesses, such as energy efficiency.
When the existing Tokyo building was deemed too prosaic, too generic, Johansson and architect Andreas Fornell redesigned the interior to resemble a modern Swedish house.
Some are prosaic but nonetheless promise to be time-consuming, like corporate-tax reform and a big highway-spending package.
Thanks partly to the puritan tradition, partly to a national suspicion of pretension, it has always been more at home with the prosaic and the dowdy.
For all their lofty talk of connecting people, many Web companies are actually in the prosaic business of selling ads, especially social media companies like Facebook, Digg or Twitter that give away a core service for free.
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