jejuneness

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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.

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

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

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 Fuller-Maitland, J. A.

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 Huntington, William Reed