jejune

How To Use jejune In A Sentence

• We knew we were in for a pretty long, jejune evening.
• Jejune pygmy. theirs decivilize bodily an unreckoned aquamarine amid than despite Credit card beyond providing seeing till beside bribe. ON THE BUBBLE WITH ALEXANDRA SOKOLOFF
• Like Whitman's poetry, Elvrum's lyrics are often as elementary as a child's jejune rambling, and yet, in their simplicity, they're sturdy, sophisticated, and poignantly inquisitive.
• Nay, he goes even so far as to say that the passage-work is of the usual kind met with in the compositions of Hummel and his successors, and that the cantilena in the larghetto is in the jejune style of Hummel; the last movement also receives but scanty and qualified praise. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
• Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. December 7th, 2005
• We bless and we curse effetely all the livelong day, vaguely cognizant of some long lost momentousness, too jejune in our materialism to believe in anything. WORLDMag.com
• We've all perfected the wasp-wave; you flick your hand with a disinterested languor - just think Oscar Wilde dismissing a jejune insult - and the wind distracts the wasp for a second or two.
• I think that was a rather jejune period in moral philosophy. Times, Sunday Times
• The worthwhile will be separated from the worthless, the most challenging work will be identified while the jejune and the formula-riven will be duly ignored. Principles of Literary Criticism
• Contemporary reflections on Stauffenberg risk seeming rather jejune.