A didactic poem, at its best, is apt to be more or less prosaic.

When we have really become acquainted with Shakespeare, our lives will be less prosaic and restricted.

This is permissible in a certain class of novels, but its effect is always more or less prosaic.

He felt less lonely, less humiliated, less prosaic among these great forest depths, these lofty ash-trees, raising their verdant branches to heaven.

There is, however, another less prosaic reason for taking the job: "It took me a day," he says, sipping an orange juice and chewing gum.

"It was when I dreamed," he added, "of less prosaic occupations than the stock market."