barrenness

How To Use barrenness In A Sentence

• Fish were abundant, to be sure, along that coast, where the invisible fruitfulness of the sea made compensation for the blank barrenness of the land; but they were swift and wary, and had to be caught, one at a time, outwitted and outspeeded in their own element. Kings in Exile
• -- despiritualize me completely -- does it mean eventual barrenness, eventual remorse, failure? Flappers and Philosophers
• He told her that barrenness is cured by the presence of immoderate heat in a woman accompanied by turgescence. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
• Talmudists speak much, and hyperbolically enough: which nevertheless they confess to be turned long since into miserable barrenness; but are dim-sighted as to the true cause of it. From the Talmud and Hebraica
• But I went alone, reassured in the north by the desert, the barrenness interrupted by the stolid saguaro, the gnarled creosote. The Right Thing
• Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness, and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects, and transmits the moving phantasms of one mans delirium, so as to people the barrenness of a hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing
• Judea admits of a high state of cultivation, and requires it, in order to be productive; its present barrenness is due to neglect. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Cruelly punning, he calls his baroness ‘Barrenness’.
• Now, much of the so-called barrenness of country life is the oak minus the polish. Chapters in Rural Progress
• He had ridden past a tiny, partly caved-in dugout, months ago, where some wandering prospector had camped while he braved the barrenness of the hills and streams hereabout. The Ranch at the Wolverine