jejuneness

Example Sentences

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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 Slouschz, Nahum

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 Mill, John Stuart

These attacks ended by opening his eyes to the comparative jejuneness of his own outlook on life.

From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz

The jejuneness and woodenness from which the modern religious story too often suffers are in no way chargeable upon all, or even many, of them.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

If a reader new to the classics opened Thucydides, his first impression would probably be one of jejuneness, of baldness.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.