jejuneness
Example Sentences
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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 Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund
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
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
And of all these things the insipidity and jejuneness of youth perforce know nothing.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
