prosaic

There are other, more prosaic, means of retaliation.

Are they a shield or for something more prosaic, short-sightedness perhaps?

Here, water transport assumes a form that is grandly ritualistic if decidedly prosaic.

There is another, more prosaic, explanation for what happened: the deep cuts to the company's workforce that Mr Musk instigated.

They are all events where ceremony and vivid pictures varnish the more prosaic political promises.