jejuneness
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It was the epoch of the Melizah, and the Melizah was to supplement the jejuneness of Rabbinism and oppose the Hasidim with good results.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz
And of all these things the insipidity and jejuneness of youth perforce know nothing.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
Through these influences my writing lost the jejuneness of my early compositions; the bones and cartilages began to clothe themselves with flesh, and the style became, at times, lively and almost light.
From Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
He was far more of a scientific musician than Gluck, and his scores have nothing of his master's jejuneness.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
Moreover it is to be remembered that there is another vice of style to be shunned in liturgical composition quite as carefully as sentimentality, namely, jejuneness.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word