jejuneness
Example Sentences
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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 R.W. Livingstone
These attacks ended by opening his eyes to the comparative jejuneness of his own outlook on life.
From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein
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
And of all these things the insipidity and jejuneness of youth perforce know nothing.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
