jejune

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Before joining Imagineering, Thacher specialized in the creation of alternate reality games, perhaps most notably as the co-creator of the Jejune Institute, which inspired the AMC series “Dispatches From Elsewhere.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2022

Jason Segel pushes the envelope, in possibly twee directions, with this series of interconnected stories inspired by the alternate-reality-gaming, public-performance-art project called the Jejune Institute.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2020

The album has found Oberst moving away from the plangent Americana that made his name, and there are few hints of alt-country about the Pixies-like power pop of Jejune Stars.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2011

"Jejune" may be more like it, as she trips glibly through the complex interplay between ecology and economy, apparently reaching for but not quite grasping conclusions similar to McKibben's.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2010

"Jejune, flat, and ill expressed," is written against the last line in the manuscript, and Pope profited by the criticism.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander