EVERY one remembers the striking chapter of Notre Dame in which Claude Frollo muses on the effect of the new art of printing upon architecture. Lifting his eyes from the book to the cathedral, he ...
On In the Age of Prose: Literary and Philosophical Essays, by Erich Heller. In his classic study of modern German thought, The Disinherited Mind (1952), Erich Heller described his “unifying theme” as ...
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Word of the day: Prosaic

Prosaic describes something that is ordinary, dull, or lacking imagination. In simple terms, if something feels plain or uninspiring, nothing special or exciting, you can call it prosaic. It is less ...