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.

And of all these things the insipidity and jejuneness of youth perforce know nothing.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

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

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

They are guarded by the sacred rules of prescription, found in that full treasury of jurisprudence from which the jejuneness and penury of our municipal law has by degrees been enriched and strengthened.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund