| 单词 | jejune |
| 例句 | “He just yelled. He didn’t hit. I just happen to think his games are jejune.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just tell your favorite brother what the word ‘jejune’ means.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Where Young killed a turtle, ate tar or tormented another boy are not so interesting, nor is Young's jejune observation that the admittedly beautiful, rolling countryside we are seeing is "peaceful." Film takes fans along on 'Neil Young Journeys' 2012-07-26T18:19:08Z The piece comes across as jejune and self-indulgent, and the part of it that gets a little hip-hop seems overly influenced by “Hamilton.” Review: A Portrait of Living With Mental Illness in ‘The Pen’ 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The jejune romantic comedy “Wedding Season” marries elements from a couple of recent entries to the genre: “Plus One” and “7 Days.” ‘Wedding Season’ Review: Much ‘I Do’ About Nothing 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z By the end of the novel, his paranoia from the park is almost jejune compared to what’s in store for him. Review | Mieko Kawakami’s ‘Heaven’ follows a bullied boy searching for meaning 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Porter, who was ill, fled after singing 35 minutes, and the usually brilliant Mehldau offered a jejune solo survey of classic ’60s rock hits. What Earshot Jazz Festival does and doesn’t offer Seattle’s jazz fans 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z A model of punctiliousness and a font of jejune humor, he is appalled by the clutter his predecessor left. Ready for Drama (and Meta-Drama)? Start With These Two Masters. 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z If there is a reason for Mr. Harris’s dual turn, the filmmakers have pretty much kept it to themselves, all the way to the jejune finish. Movie Review: Ed Harris and Annette Bening in ‘The Face of Love’ 2014-03-07T00:54:59Z His comments in the catalogue interview are disturbingly inarticulate and jejune. A Microsoft billionaire gives the public a rare view of his art 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But in the hands of Ms. Galasso and her young, eager performers, green in more than one way, it turned jejune. At River to River Festival, Dancing Amid the Mundane and Majestic 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Even before he left to take up his scholarship at Cambridge, he had organized fellow teenagers into a youth troupe and directed them in that jejune trifle “Hamlet.” Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z But the more important point is that we’ve actually moved past Lanyard Envy in Washington — nowadays, that sort of jejune thing is just so San Francisco. Weingarten: D.C. isn’t the second-snobbiest city in America; it’s the snobbiest The essay in the Tractatus is a very mediocre little tract, and most likely – so the orthodox view goes – a jejune compendium of Aristotelian thought by a none-too-bright Byzantine monk. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z This one and the one before where Ford dies are just jejune recycling of first three movies which are the only good films worth seeing. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z At its weakest, “Paradisiacal Rites” doesn’t know when to stop hammering on jejune themes of darkness, misery and pain. Saint Genet show ‘Rites’ goes to extremes | Performance review 2013-05-18T21:57:04Z If that seemed jejune, perhaps it was because Ms. Stone has little experience. Scene City: Celebrating a Film About a Film 2013-07-31T21:12:26Z So why, 20 years on, do I find my justification for this form of biography a little jejune and a lot plain cocky? Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z “Either it’s intentionally self-referential and not meant to be seriously, or it’s coming from a more jejune sensibility and doesn’t care.” Broadway Shows Get the Point! Again! 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z A jejune error: the past is unrepeatable, regret futile. Embracing the Ordinary by Michael Foley - review 2012-07-18T07:00:02Z And to feel jejune if we slip from that lofty, arid plane to delight in something here and now. Opinion | We’ll never solve our many crises without this one ingredient 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z As a teen-ager, did he produce, under the alias Psychedelic Warlord, jejune poems and stories, including one whose narrator enjoyed running down children with a car? Can Beto Bounce Back? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z “It’s a very unusual situation to have opposition research like that, especially one that, on its face, had a number of clear mistakes and in a somewhat jejune analysis,” Barr said. James Comey blasts AG Barr, accuses him of ‘sliming his own department’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z “It’s a very unusual situation to have opposition research like that especially one that, on its face, had a number of clear mistakes and in a somewhat jejune analysis,” Barr said. Bill Barr reveals Russia probe review to focus on Trump dossier briefing, leaking 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z You’re guaranteed to find dozens of Twitter users with rose emojis and portmanteau user names like “Frank Black Mirror” or “Antonio Banshee” mocking and belittling these pundits’ jejune neoliberalism or reactionary conservatism. “Chapo Guide to Revolution” hints at a burgeoning leftist culture going mainstream 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z His ruminations on biology may be jejune, but unwelcome facts are still facts. Of Furries and Fascism at Google 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Carmelo Anthony carries an often unfair reputation as the jejune hoop star, the man with a smile almost too soft and a manner too easy. Carmelo Anthony Displays His Toughness in a Public Arena 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z One: Real statesmen aren’t deflected by the jejune concerns of normal mortals. The Man Who Saved Germany’s New Democracy 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Despite the sporadic jejune Twitter tirade, Fair has established herself as one of the drone program’s most vociferous proponents. “I AM a rambo b**ch”: Meet the drone defender who hates neo-cons, attacks Glenn Greenwald — and may have conflicts of her own 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z China’s perceived sway over the country and its jejune dictator, Kim Jong Un, is Ms Park’s biggest justification for her cosy ties with Mr Xi. Central Park 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Whether not she meant it, or was simply putting on a show of jejune bravado for the international media, was uncertain. Calls For More Autonomy, Or Independence, Grow in Hong Kong 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Hornaday commends the film for its feminist politics and the fact that filmgoers get to see "a genuine friendship between a grown man and younger woman, uncontaminated by jejune cliches or icky innuendo." Reviews commend Hathaway and De Niro's platonic friendship in 'The Intern' 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Bittman’s phobia about chemical pesticides in agriculture is so, well, jejune. The New York Times Food Writer Who Is Always Out To Lunch 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z It needs only to compare recent memoirs of her with the jejune attempts of the last century, to perceive how much her cause gains from fuller and closer investigation. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He secured his aunt's best scissors, fished a sixpence out of his jejune tin money-box, and jabbed his finger in a varied series of attempts to get it in half. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z The criticisms of books were jejune in the extreme, consisting chiefly of a few smart witticisms, and meager connecting remarks stringing together ample quotations from the work under review. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z I don't know what I wouldn't give if I could bring in, just naturally and easily, when I am talking, such a word, for instance, as jejune! Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Let your conversation possess a clarified conciseness, compact comprehensiveness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cognancy; eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity and jejune babblement. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z His earlier poems, chiefly songs and verse of society, were pleasing from a certain airy grace and lightness; but on the whole their style was thin and jejune. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The usual lesson by now sounds jejune: digital continues to sweep all manner of analog before it. Kodak Needed A Turnaround Lesson From Steve Jobs 2012-01-24T17:17:46Z Generally speaking the Arabic writings are late in point of date, and cold and jejune in style; while it must also be remembered that they are set religious works written to defend Islam. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Being a person trained to jejune classification, I automatically pigeon-hole the “appeal,” and my mind therefore offers to advertisements a hospitable retreat under Ambition, or Culture, or Physical development, or the Senses, or Vanity. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Maunders was especially severe upon the novels of young authors, with their affected style and jejune ideas. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z After all he owed Sir George Repington no grudge; it would be absurd to cherish an animosity that was based on a jejune domestick patriotism. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z How jejune and inconsiderable it seems in comparison with your great system! The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z A curious evidence of the jejune state of the public mind at this period appears in this volume. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z He made a jejune, garbled, timid exposé of the immediate causes of the 18th March, but took good care not to touch upon the veritable causes. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z His description applies to the girl who grows up amid the average conditions of American life, the girl who is portrayed in her more jejune condition in Henry James's Daisy Miller. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z Satisfied with collecting a mass of facts, their authors adopted a style which, in the later ages of Rome, became proverbially meagre and jejune. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z To us they appear extremely jejune and silly. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z But in their translation into the bald language of reality—the jejune prose of fact—our dreams have a way of losing their finer essence. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z The volume of 1500 had been jejune, written when he knew nothing of Greek; 800 adages put together with scanty elucidations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z It is sadly inept, not to say jejune, to accuse Maxim Gorki’s Night Lodging of “gloom.” The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z That of the early annalists, as we have already seen, was inelegant and jejune; but style came to be considered, in the progress of history, as a matter of primary importance. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z One got an impression of the enormous range and volume of intellectual activity that pours along now, in comparison with the jejune trickle of Goldsmith’s days. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Tieck came to the work with a good first-hand knowledge of Shakspere and this lessens the juvenile and jejune qualities of his work. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z It was most unfortunate that my former friend Tony Blair had such a jejune understanding of the Middle East when signing up for the US invasion of Iraq. What your country needs is ? a prime minister with a historical perspective 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z One explanation is that the campaign has exposed them not just as jejune but also as lacking in judgment. Get the message, David Cameron, or lose the election 2010-04-25T23:06:00Z But though short, jejune, and unadorned, still, as records of facts, these annals, if spared, would have formed an inestimable treasure of early history. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Soldiers such as Marlborough, who were superior to these jejune prescriptions, met indeed with uniform success. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Since the 15th century a certain number of profane poets have arisen, whose work is less jejune on the whole than that of the hymn and canticle writers of an earlier age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The authoritative oracle, which is to decide our path, is something more searching and manifold than such jejune generalizations as treatises can give, which are most distinct and clear when we least need them. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Those other relics of faded and jejune aspirations would label him too definitely. Sinister Street, vol. 2 For some considerable intervals scarcely any monument of literature has been preserved, except a few jejune chronicles, the vilest legends of saints, or verses equally destitute of spirit and metre. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Their efforts met with some little success, but their powers were too limited, and their attempts too artificial and jejune to exert any considerable influence either in the direction of conservation or of reform. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise In any case, however, Mr. Edgeworth, who had a special leaning to the jejune, had a particular dislike to this form of fiction. Maria Edgeworth Instead of copying directly the abstract qualities of Theophrastus and his brief, pregnant, but somewhat artificial and jejune description of them, La Bruyère adopted a scheme much better suited to his own age. A Short History of French Literature Now began a period not worth a detailed chronicle, since it was merely a repetition of a period already discussed—a repetition, moreover, that like most anachronisms seemed after other events jejune and somewhat tawdry. Carnival So a narrative, devoid of all circumstances, must be very jejune, confused, and unsatisfactory. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards The mind refuses to admit such jejune and monstrous fictions among the illusions of imagination. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition But it observed a very high standard of classical English, a little intolerant of neologism, but not stiff nor jejune. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) I can't understand," said one of them, "how people can spoil all their enjoyment by eternally hunting after some jejune interpretation or explanation. Weird Tales, Vol. II. His best points do not follow from his jejune critical principles, but from close reading that forces him at times to admit that he is interested even while he carps and cavils. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) Again, in the second Epode, these fine verses would surely sound much finer if they began, “As a hardy climber who has set his heart,” than with the jejune “As hardy climber.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) To a twentieth-century English artist, Mr. Rawlence might have seemed a shade crude, possibly rather pompous and affected, somewhat jejune and trite, perhaps. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Up to Mr. Ruskin's day, æsthetics had been little cultivated in England, and such handlings of the subject as existed—Burke's, Adam Smith's, Alison's, and a few others—were of a jejune and academic character. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Court poets read aloud amidst breathless silence the divine Vittoria’s fourteen lines of jejune sentiment draped in folds of elegant verbiage; nobles and prelates applauded, hailing the authoress as a heaven-sent genius. The Naples Riviera After some jejune remarks upon this question he drops into theology and winds up with a little sermon. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) We may, of course, take shelter behind the jejune explanation that there are two worlds with two moralities. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war There has certainly been a remarkable development in the Japanese newspaper press since this somewhat jejune announcement was published. The Empire of the East You are even a more jejune student than myself in bibliography, or you would not talk in this strain, Belinda. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance And Hazlitt's judgment on him, that he is "jejune" and "frigid" will, as Lamb himself hinted, long remain the chiefest and most astonishing example of a great critic's aberrations when his prejudices are concerned. A History of Elizabethan Literature The singlestick rattle of compliment in the interview first given, and the rather obvious and superfluous meditations of the second, may seem, if not exactly disgusting, tedious and jejune. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Had not jejune sojourns been made to the homes of their respective rural families where he had to eat with them as one of their members? An Apostate: Nawin of Thais It was the jejune insipidity of an entire age, the stale flatness of the world that she felt to the very depths of her soul. The Goose Man He rejected the dogmatic and philosophic systems of his contemporaries as mere jejune skeletons of reality, and devoted the close of his life to study of the traditions and the Koran. Mystics and Saints of Islam To superficial observers, or observers who have convinced themselves that high lights and bright colourings are of the essence of the art of the prose writer, Clarendon may seem tame and jejune. A History of Elizabethan Literature Even the jejune and partial analysis which has been given must have shown how many of the elements of the modern novel are here—sometimes, as it were, "in solution," sometimes actually crystallised. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 It was a most disconcerting peculiarity, this inanimate and uniquely discombobulated show, as jejune and surreal as spinning his head dizzyingly while watching the lifeless dummy of himself the only prop on a barren stage. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais The notes may have been jejune, but they were probably accurate, and free from the perversions of family vanity or such lengthy rhetorical ornamentation as became the universal fashion among private writers of annalistic history. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus Here the people are calm and phlegmatic; their speech is jejune, lacks color. The Simple Life It is therefore with unfeigned pleasure that we are able to supplement this jejune summary with some absolutely authentic details supplied us by a Levantine detective of unimpeachable veracity who shadowed the party. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14 He felt a profound revulsion from his own nature, which was flawed with this sentimentalism, this jejune expectancy. Sacrifice Everywhere else principles of convenience, or of symmetry, or of simplification—new principles at any rate—have usurped the authority of the jejune considerations which satisfied the conscience of ancient times. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society They exhaust the mind by a certain jejune and barren subtlety, without fertilizing or inspiring it. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation The latter may become jejune, and is safe only in the hands of great writers: the former is apt to provide too rich a feast and to leave the full-fed mind inert. 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 He may have fancied, as his friend Forster also did, that Pickwick was a rather jejune juvenile thing, inartistically planned, and thrown off, or rather rattled off. Pickwickian Manners and Customs The lowest ebb of indifference seems to be reached in a letter by Daniel Webster, written from Richmond, and devoted to some very commonplace and jejune praises of morning and early rising. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 If the style is sometimes found to be bald, and of jejune simplicity, the original is characteristically so. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians For in stories, as in other games, play without luck is fatiguing and jejune, luck without play childish. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) The "absurdity" satirized in this jejune and tedious tract is extravagant living of all kinds. The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse This it is that makes the reading of the sixteenth-century polemics so insufferably jejune and dreary. German Culture Past and Present But these might grow jejune, nor is it safe to trust the tender mercies of a butcher. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 As to all these interesting questions the "Various Letters", with all their diffuseness, give us no more information than the most jejune of the annalists. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Each section of his meagre narrative is capable of being worked out by sufficiently busy and imaginative operators into a complete roman d'aventures: his facts, if meagre and jejune, are numerous. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) That is why, for me at any rate, the subject of women's rights is jejune and sterile compared with the subject of this chapter. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles It seems simple, almost jejune; so thin and weak that one wonders how it can have formed the foundation for a system so mighty in its historical results. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" So much for my jejune contribution: not without value; because I know you regard my intelligence—a perilous tool God gave me for his own purposes; one bringing nothing to me. Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is evident to me that Gray meant by this to stigmatise the diction of Joseph Warton, which is jejune, verbose, and poor. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Books are cold, jejune, vexatious in their sparingness of information at one time and their impertinent loquacity at another. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 It demands great industry and patience to wade into such abstruse stores as records and charters: and they being jejune and narrow in themselves, very acute criticism is necessary to strike light from their assistance. Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third Everyone who has painted since Manet has either followed him in this effort or has appeared jejune. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture It is a great proof of the essentially poetical quality of his mind that though he thus often becomes jejune, he 181is never prosaic. Life of John Milton This led to the dissemination of the series of jejune compilations which in the ages of Edward I. and II. were widely spread under the name of Flores Historiarum. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) But this Satir comes in only by the by, and in a very jejune Manner. A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) Then is thy news most jejune and unsatisfactory, seeing that our condition is neither war nor peace, but of sort of armed truce, liable to be broken at any moment by these treacherous savages. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance It has been objected against me by some that my accounts and descriptions of things are dry and jejune, not filled with variety of pleasant matter to divert and gratify the curious reader. A Voyage to New Holland Howel had become jejune, and limited very much by his failing sight. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement His teaching is formulated in severe and technical phraseology, yet the substance of it is so simple that many have criticized it as too obvious and jejune to be the basis of a religion. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 For to cultured ears and to men of the highest eloquence my speech will appear to have little marrow in its views, and its poverty of words will seem jejune. Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities They drain the cup of voluptuous pleasure to its dregs, and flee from home as jejune and supine. The Christian Home I don't approve of philosophising too much, for it is a very jejune, barren, and melancholy Thing. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. We want also to keep classics and especially Greek as the bountiful source of material and of colour, decoration for the jejune lives of common men. Cambridge Essays on Education For some considerable intervals, scarcely any monument of literature has been preserved, except a few jejune chronicles, the vilest legends of saints, or verses equally destitute of spirit and metre. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Where their jejune "answers" gained a simper, Swift's virility of mind, range of power, and dexterity of handling, compelled a homage. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Without it we resort to jejune amusement, and from amusement we are hurried on to dissipation, to the card table and dram shop; and from dissipation we sink to degradation, infamy and wretchedness. The Christian Home From this point of view his early speeches in particular sound jejune or superfluous. William of Germany His Hints for an Essay on the Drama are jejune and infertile, when compared with the vigorous and original thought of Diderot and Lessing at about the same period. Burke Some pore o'er classic works jejune, Through all their life at College,— I would not pour, but use the spoon To fill my mind with knowledge. A Collection of College Words and Customs The reality did not correspond; it transcended his imagination; it painfully demonstrated his jejune crudity. The Roll-Call But the great mediæval Universities were not brought into being, we may be sure, by the zeal for giving a jejune and contemptible education. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold Nobody but Beyle could have written it; nobody but Beyle could have managed to be at once so stimulating and so jejune, so clear-sighted and so exasperating. Books and Characters French and English But the great mediaeval universities were not brought into being, we may be sure, by the zeal for giving a jejune and contemptible education. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice The answers, therefore, as prepared for the Minister are generally jejune, often barely civil, sometimes actually misleading. Collections and Recollections It is out of my power now to stand between it and the American public: all I can do is to rescue it from unauthorized mutilations and make the best of a jejune job. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage Again, in the second Epode, these fine verses would surely sound much finer if they began, 'As a hardy climber who has set his heart,' than with the jejune 'As hardy climber.' Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 What hope for a people so mentally emasculate that they can patiently listen to his jejune wind-jamming, can read and relish his irremediable tommyrot? Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 Or he may have heard somewhere the statement he parrots and really supposed it true, for a man capable of conducting so jejune a journal might easily believe anything. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 He refused invitations, to Rowland's knowledge, in order to dine at the jejune little table-d'hote; wherever his spirit might be, he was present in the flesh with religious constancy. Roderick Hudson A judgement orally delivered extempore may be satisfactory to the ear, but when reduced to paper, the sentences become involved and jejune. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. His real original was not the Greek text at all, but the Latin version of Joshua Barnes; and when this appeared to him jejune and unpoetic he sometimes created an original of his own. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The last three books above all are jejune and perfunctory, and it has been suggested that they lack the final revision that the rest of the work had received. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Thus, instead of severe, he became rigid, and his plainness is not unfrequently jejune. Milton This Jenny Lind singing is a matter of such lofty art in the sublimest sense, and we are so young and jejune in all art, that I cannot much wonder at the general impression. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis Cicero alludes to his style as being jejune and puerile, Brut., c. Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War No bootmaker would allow an unpractised beginner to hack his leather about in a jejune attempt to construct a pair of shoes. Alone The works called good are dry and jejune, soon consummated, often of questionable value, and leaving behind them when finished a sense of vacuity. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Just as decidedly she was quaint and piquant and quite new to his jejune but also somewhat bored experience. From a Bench in Our Square People thought the Speech rather short and jejune. A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II Of Vespasian and his second legion the jejune page of Suetonius records neither where they landed nor at what limit their victorious eagles were stayed. The Westcotes His sonnets inlaid in the Arcadia are jejune, far-fetch'd and frigid…. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Such a jejune style could never hold a Roman audience, and Cicero in theory and in practice took as model not only Demosthenes, but also Isocrates. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism Nothing indeed can be more jejune than the original narratives of the invasion. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 Kleist becomes poor, tiresome, jejune, and insupportably frigid; an example full of lessons for those who, without having an inner vocation, aspire to issue from musical poetry, to rise to the regions of plastic poetry. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. The Mill on the Floss I confess I can see nothing of the "jejune" or "frigid" in them; much less of the "stiff" and "cumbrous"—which I have sometimes heard objected to the Arcadia. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Their common fault is to be comprehensively jejune. A Modern Utopia The story of his conquests reads like the epitome of a lost romance—so varied are the incidents, so jejune the details afforded by contemporary sources. Medieval Europe Nowhere can I find him preaching "Art for Art's sake," in the jejune sense of the empty-headed acolytes of the aesthetic. Without Prejudice Wretched emasculator of his own reason, whose jejune timidity and want of vitality are thus omnipresent in the most secret chambers of his heart! The Fair Haven Contrasted with the inconceivable antiquity of this modest fossil, those other things were flippantly modern—jejune—mere matters of day-before-yesterday. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 In fact, he was raising the League from a jejune experiment into a flourishing organization. The Fortunate Youth Or rather, there are times when his Doric simplicity of style seems jejune beside the flowing periods and picturesque details of Lescarbot. The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain "The Creation" libretto stands to the present day as an example of all that is jejune and incongruous in words for music. Haydn He knew how jejune his life had been,—how devoid of other interests than that of the public service to which he had devoted himself. The Duke's Children The Arabic is not only faulty, but dry and jejune, comparing badly with that of the "Thousand Nights and a Night," as it appears in the Macnaghten and the abridged Bulak Texts. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] Mohammed left a dispensation or rather a reformation so arid, jejune and material that it promised little more than the "Law of Moses," before this was vivified and racially baptised by Mesopotamian and Persic influences. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 Let a professor of law or physics find his place in a lecture-room, and there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases, and he will pour them forth to empty benches. Barchester Towers Yea, and Chrysippus too, though he does not so trifle, yet is very jejune, while he hunts after improbable etymologies. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies We pass in the world for sects and schools, for erudition and piety, and we are all the time jejune babes. Essays — First Series Hence it is as common a thing to hear our orators condemned for being too jejune and feeble as too excessive and redundant. The Letters of Pliny the Younger Let a professor of law or physic find his place in a lecture-room, and there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases, and he will pour them forth to empty benches. Barchester Towers Some hundreds have been found of both classes, but they are almost wholly without literary merit, being bald and jejune in the extreme, and presenting little variety. History of Phoenicia And at length I find myself compounding the following jejune lines: To our land we all are born In happiness to dwell. Through Russia Mr. Deede Dawson, in spite of the jejune nature of the communication, read it very carefully and indeed even went so far as to examine the letter through a powerful magnifying-glass. The Bittermeads Mystery So she tried to fill in his jejune outlines. The Research Magnificent Every conceivable subject was discussed, including politics and military affairs; and in this connection guests voiced jejune opinions for the expression of which they would, at any other time, have soundly spanked their offspring. Dead Souls |
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