Adjective : a jejune novel. ,jejune behavior. ,jejune attempts to design a house. ,a jejune diet. From Dictionary.com.
If a reader new to the classics opened Thucydides, his first impression would probably be one of jejuneness, of baldness. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
Beyond extravagant language, beyond absurd fine things, it lies in a certain lack of reality and sobriety of sense and view, -- in a certain indefinable jejuneness in the mental fare provided, which makes mature men feel that somehow it does not satisfy their cravings. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
He was far more of a scientific musician than Gluck, and his scores have nothing of his master's jejuneness. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
But if they were crude, they were shrewd -- or so she thought them; and the jejuneness was, to her mind, chiefly in the dressing of them. From Wordnik.com. [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference
It was as if she felt their perfunctory nature, their conspicuous jejuneness, and nevertheless, like him, was utterly unable to broach the discussion of more serious things. From Wordnik.com. [Too Old for Dolls A Novel] Reference
It is not easy to avoid jejuneness in rendering faithfully the austere simplicity of this little poem, wherein the terms and metaphors are not rich in import to us as they would be to an early Buddhist. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
Though there is a frequent dryness, timidity, and jejuneness in his manner, he has left a number of pictures of domestic comfort and social refinement, as well as of natural imagery and feeling, which can hardly be forgotten but with the language itself. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference
The kind of fire that led to elopements, to wild and clandestine love-making, could now, with too few exceptions, be found only among ne'er-do-wells, foreign adventurers, cut-throats or knaves; while the stability that promised security for the future and for the family, seemed generally to present itself with a sort of tiresome starchiness of body and jejuneness of mind, that thought it childish to abandon itself to any emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Too Old for Dolls A Novel] Reference
I’m just dismayed that Karen Hughes is exhibiting such jejuneness in her approach to an incredibly sensitive job, a job which even under the difficult circumstances of defending an indefensible foreign policy, can still be performed with professionalism and a good degree of common sense thrown in. From Wordnik.com. [Hooman Majd: See Karen Run] Reference
3) Don’t worry about the jejuneness of o’G’s article – address the Wittgenstein and Kripke arguments. From Wordnik.com. [Perils of pop philosophy] Reference
"The Chinese tongue is of unsurpass jejuneness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
Masefield, for instance, is jejuneness enthroned. From Wordnik.com. [Too Old for Dolls A Novel] Reference
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