In "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", Molière's Monsieur Jourdain was excited to discover that he had been speaking prose all his life but he is, characteristically, a figure of derision.
But many of us, only intermittently attentive, will discover, like Molière's bourgeois gentleman, that we have been speaking "prose" all our lives — prose written in the language of this style.
Like the bourgeois gentleman of the playwright Molière — amazed to discover in middle age that he'd been speaking prose all his life — you've been using the figures since long before you could name them.
Like Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme discovering that he has been speaking prose all his life, Cameron and his cabinet may be surprised to learn that what they have been calling fundamental British values are in fact European.
Like Molière's Monsieur Jourdain, who discovers that he has spoken prose all his life without knowing it, the snapper can be flattered to learn that he is more hermeneutic than he ever guessed.
In "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme," Molière makes fun of the aspirational fanaticism of the moneyed middle-class man who discovers, thanks to an expensive tutor, that he has been speaking prose all his life without knowing it, and in "The Imaginary Invalid" he makes fun of the hypochondriac's desperate desire to be cured by some systematic, if entirely fake, doctoring.
If you're from elsewhere (in my case, County Tyrone) and move to the south of England (as I did, to attend university), you might be surprised to find – like Molière's Monsieur Jourdain, who learns he has been speaking prose his whole life – that what you talk is actually "dialect".
It lyrically speaks prose in a form of trochaic or iambic heptameter.
Prince combined multiple bands and personnel (Prince alone and with The Time, Tevin Campbell, George Clinton); genres including rock, funk, rap, soul, R&B, jazz, and blues; lyrics ranging from the spiritual to the nearly academic to the deliciously obscene; words delivered as spoken prose, rapping, singing, and chorus; and ambient sounds integrated into acoustic, electric, and electronic music.
When he spoke, his prose always cut through my heart.
She spoke of Prose's "growing intelligence layer around machine learning," which will help customize the items.
