Now that the heroic era of construction is over, the Gabonese are faced with the more prosaic task of trying to make the railroad pay off.

Even with such a prosaic task, he is a perfectionist, and for good reason: Mistakes that are due to a packer's negligence can be costly; damages can be docked from pay.

So he embarked on a prosaic task far removed from his musical talents.

At present, The Shadow was engaged in a prosaic task.

Instead, she appeared to be engaged in the prosaic task of hemming dishclothes.

It is a most successful method of fishing, while its nature is more that of an outing festival, rather than of a prosaic, food-getting task.

The Commission allows the markets to do their prosaic task of delivering the goods.

While Birgit performed the prosaic, but vital, cargo-carrying tasks in the rear areas, the Allied war effort came to a victorious conclusion, sped along by two atomic bombs.

But it is going to be extremely difficult for people on either side to shift gears from the emotionally consuming struggle for national survival to the more prosaic tasks of cooperation, coexistence and development.

Fatah never really had a place for the prosaic tasks that concern most governments.