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.

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

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.

These attacks ended by opening his eyes to the comparative jejuneness of his own outlook on life.

From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz

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