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Two of my favorite bands, Jejune and Rainer Maria, had women coleads.

She's absurd, like Sardanapalus or even, in Delacroix's spectacular but jejune religious paintings, Jesus.

"Archīva" is, from beginning to end, a jejune, half-baked and tiresome exercise in theatrics.

Ingmar Bergman's daily lunch of whipped sour milk, strawberry jam and corn flakes was surprisingly jejune.

He was also challenging, indignant about all injustice, and a quiet saboteur of every jejune idea.

Immediately after being recruited by the Jejune Society, Peter is recruited by its rival, the Elsewhere Society.

I found the take on Tolstoy jejune, exactly what Ben described as the impressions of a young thing.

Through Google, I gathered only that it was a project created by Nonchalance, a company that previously created an art "cult" called the Jejune Institute.

Most of us don't even get to come close to the playfully ruffled bouffant of Noel Edmonds, such is the awe-inspiring jejune of our lives.

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?

For Benioff to consider an eclectic mix of progressive policies and corporate responsibility a "new capitalism" is a little jejune (naive, simplistic, shallow, you get the point).

"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 a somewhat jejune analysis," Barr said.

At CES 2018, one industry analyst referred to VR as "drawerware," referring to the likelihood of headsets to be stuffed in a drawer after a few forays into jejune worlds.

Amsterdam's brand-new Gallery Schuit is choosing to overlook all that's jejune about the world of fashion, and is presenting a new exhibit that focuses on fashion solely as art.

Dispatches From Elsewhere takes many of the real-life clues and details from Hull's "Games of Nonchalance" like the Jejune Institute and its equally peculiar counter-organization the Elsewhere Society.

Aquaria danced like a pro, and while her jejune, self-aggrandizing lyrics didn't exactly "unite this beautiful country," I suppose I have to accept that they represented its collective id.

Needlessly angry, frustratingly privileged young metalheads describe both Tool's fans and their contemporaries, and the band's jejune angst inspired a wave of aggro metal from the late nineties into the aughts.

The baggage that Peter, Janice, and Simone in particular have amassed through their individual lived experiences is used against them and also in the rivalry between the Jejune and Elsewhere Societies.

A particular strain of moody romanticism pervades "One Discordant Violin," a monologue with music adapted by Anthony Black from a jejune short story that Yann Martel ("Life of Pi") wrote in his 20s.

As seen with her "Measuring Box" (1970) sculpture, Horn has first calculated and then riddled the world of female flesh with obscurity and incoherence that in combination exceeds jejune sexual and political positions.

Christie's last-gasp strategy is to turn Rubio into a limp, soggy chew toy, and the New Jersey governor was all jaws at the debate, where he dismissed Rubio as a jejune purveyor of pretty but practiced lines.

Or maybe it's that we've had to retire reassuring plotlines of contemporary history — namely that we have confronted, battled and vanquished racism and sexism, among other problems — so that the notion of problem-complication-resolution now seems jejune.

Either way, it is far better to give that a whirl before selling shares to widows and orphans as did Snap, an even more jejune startup, whose stock has tumbled 25 percent since peaking after its market debut last week.

But it is still considered by many critics to be a little jejune to treat the third of Lolita's plots — Lolita from the point of view of Dolores — as though it deserves equal billing with the rest of the book.

The new series, which is inspired by an immersive alternate-reality game, focuses on four regular people who have been selected to attend the Jejune Institute, a mysterious retreat that takes them on a wild goose chase to find Clara.

Yet while "Sunset Boulevard" is narrated by Holden's screenwriter after he dies, Thomas appears to have a pulse, though the opening interview, with its jejune braggadocio and world weariness, suggests that something in him — artistic drive, a sense of purpose — has died.

Even before the bloodcurdling execution of Jamal Khashoggi for his just criticism of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, it was clear that the chump Trump and jejune Jared had bet their entire Middle East strategy on a chillingly autocratic and reckless person.

When all nine acts of it opened on Broadway in 13 — running nearly six hours, including a break for dinner — the New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson groused about its "jejune plot and incompetent characters," saying it could have been half the length.

He's just been laid off from his job as a journalist, and if it was mind-bogglingly naïve of him not to realize the shaky state of the media industry, it fits with his blind idealism, which he couples with jejune politics.

" Over at Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman gave the film an "F" rating, calling it a "jejune fantasy of prison-camp homogenization," adding that "Any self-respecting lesbian should rear up in horror at a movie that tells her that THIS is how she's supposed to be.

For three years, players followed clues tucked into anonymous phone calls and pirate radio broadcasts, tasked with sabotaging the Jejune Institute and tracking the whereabouts a young woman named Evalyn Lucien — or Eva, as in "Eva Lucien" — who was somehow involved and said to have disappeared in 1988.

And yet, for an overwhelming majority of Poles, the Orchestra has been a symbol of the Poland we have struggled to build since the 1990s with jejune but hopeful capitalism, of the Poland that joined NATO, of the Poland that voted in favor of joining the European Union.

There's a famous scene in the fashion-insider tell-all The Devil Wears Prada, in which Miranda Priestly, the Anna Wintour avatar played with icy hauteur by Meryl Streep, explains to jejune fashion assistant Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a wannabe serious journalist, about the trickle-down effect of high fashion.

Created by an artist and former data manager named Jeff Hull, the Games of Nonchalance were an alternate-reality game that blurred fact and fiction, leading participants into an elaborate drama in which rival organizations called the Jejune Institute and the Elsewhere Public Works Agency fought for control of esoteric technology.

Likewise, in "Carol," an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel " The Price of Salt ," the suave Carol (Cate Blanchett), who is going through a difficult divorce, and the jejune Therese (Rooney Mara) act out a kind of Kabuki of normality, while the signs and signals of their attraction are being sent, received, and returned.

Any show that can cast Sally Field and André 3000 as pals and make it work is worth the price of admission alone It's unclear what the scavenger hunt means or what the Jejune Institute even is, which is fine because the characters' collective journey for answers is more rewarding than the answers themselves.

Damn Adrien le > Corbeau and his rhetoric. The book is a magnificent idea, ruined by jejune > bombast. My version is better than his: but dishonest here and there: but my > stomach turned. Couldn't help it.

62 and the sinking of the RMS Titanic.DCU Heroes Secret Files and Origins #1, p. 47 It takes approximately twenty three years for the line of gods from the Jejune Realm to be processed. Everyone is told to cooperate or face instant termination.

1949 Probate Calendar, p. 468. was a British non-fiction topographical author. His first book on Sussex was described by The Observer as "jejune", however, his second on Wessex was praised for good judgement in content and presentation."Wessex and the West", The Observer, 7 May 1922, p. 5.

June 5, 2003. Retrieved on August 27, 2003. Chapman is arguably best remembered for editing the fourth and fifth editions of Roget's Thesaurus, published by Harper Collins in 1977 and 1992. Chapman chose to retain Roget's original system of numbered categories rather than use an alphabetical system, which he found "jejune".

The third book, which contains 290 verses, is by a much inferior hand. The writer calls himself Lygdamus and the love that he sings of Neaera. He has little poetical power, and his style is meagre and jejune. He has a good many reminiscences and imitations of Tibullus, PropertiusPropertius, iii.

Jejunum is derived from the Latin word jējūnus, meaning "fasting." It was so called because this part of the small intestine was frequently found to be void of food following death, due to its intensive peristaltic activity relative to the duodenum and ileum. The Early Modern English adjective jejune is derived from this word.

Los Angeles Times. Part IV, p. 12. Alan M. Kriegsman of The Washington Post described the film as "a case of machismo gone mad," and wondered "how a photographer like Gabriel Figueroa, who shot a number of Luis Bunuel's finest films, among other things, ever got roped into such a jejune, tasteless project."Kriegsman, Alan M. (June 20, 1970).

Jimmy Eat World made an early emo pop sound off their album Clarity (1999). Both albums were very influential on later emo and emo pop bands. According to Nicole Keiper of CMJ, Sense Field's Building (1996) pushed the band "into the emo-pop camp with the likes of the Get Up Kids and Jejune". Emo pop began to have independent success in the late 1990s.

During this tour, the Get Up Kids played a show in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania with Coalesce, who they became friends with. Four Minute Mile was released on September 30. Further tour outings included an east coat and southern tour with Jejune and Mineral in September, west coast tour with No Knife in October and November, and concluded the year with a north east tour with Jimmy Eat World in December.

She praised Yelchin's "modest, endearing lead performance" but found Arielle's character underdeveloped. Rodrigo Perez of The Playlist referred to 5 to 7 as "groan-worthy", "sappy and painfully jejune." He found the premise implausible and melodramatic and Brian's character uninteresting and two-dimensional, a stand-in for "an adolescent male fantasy". The Village Voice Amy Nicholson also felt that Brian was an unsympathetic character and that his relationship with Arielle was not believable.

Strohmandeln, also called Strohmandel, Strohmanntarock, Strohmanntarok, Zweiertarock, Strawman Tarock or Straw Man Tarock, is an old, two-hand card game from the Austrian branch of the Tarock family. It takes its name from the three-packet talon of four cards, the Strohmänner ("strawmen"), each player has at the start of the game. While the original game has been described as jejune, it was eventually superseded by an attractive successor which is both challenging and very exciting.

Jejune was an American rock band formed in 1996 at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. The band has been commonly identified with the emo genre, and was heavily involved with the scene at the peak of the "second wave" of emo in the mid-1990s. The three founding members, Arabella Harrison (Bass/Vocals), Joe Guevara (Guitar/Vocals) and Chris Vanacore (Drums), met while studying at the college. The band relocated to San Diego, California, in 1997.

Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena." In his last autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a KKK member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision—a jejune and immature outlook—seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions." Byrd also said in 2005, "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America.

In their first show as Kid Kilowatt, they performed with Brodsky's "heroes", Giants Chair, in his home town of Methuen, Massachusetts. For the following six to seven months, however, all the band members were prepossessed with other musical projects, resulting in infrequent rehearsal and intermittent live performance. They did occasionally play live during this period, however, performing with bands such as Piebald, Jejune, and Regulator Watts. They recorded as Kid Kilowatt only once before the official demise of the band, in July 1997.

A claim against a public body for breach of contract should not be struck out simply because judicial review might be more appropriate. The CPR 1998 enabled courts to prevent unfair exploitation of the longer time limits for civil suits. Some aspects of were 'unsuitable' for adjudication 'because these are issues of academic or pastoral judgment which the university is equipped to consider in breadth and depth, but on which any judgment of the courts would be jejune and inappropriate'. But there was a public law dimension for statutory HEIs and judicial review available.

He is best known for his Annals (), a seven book annalistic history of Rome that spanned from the mythical founding of Rome until 146 BC. His historical account, now lost and known to us from only forty-nine short quotations or paraphrases, was written in a simple style of Latin. Later historians relied upon his work, though many did not find it satisfactory. Cicero considered his work jejune, and Livy did not consider him fully reliable, due to his tendency to moralize and politicize the histories that he recounted.Badian, Ernst.

Near the end of 1999, many of the bands in the "indie emo" scene of the time attempted to move away from the "emo" label. As a band, Jejune began experimenting with more pure-pop leanings, and prepared to record their third album. However, tensions in the band regarding the new direction led to the band's breakup in early 2000. Later that year, Big Wheel Recreation released a compilation called RIP, which consisted of the completed demos for the third album, tracks from released singles, and a handful of unreleased songs.

For the following six or seven months, all the band members were prepossessed with other musical projects, resulting in infrequent rehearsal and intermittent live performance. They did play live during this period, however, performing with bands including Piebald, Jejune, and Regulator Watts. They recorded as Kid Kilowatt only once before the official demise of the band, in July 1997. During this session, they recorded "Bicycle Song" and "The Scope" on Ballou's 8-track machine; this version of "Bicycle Song" appeared on Hydra Head Records CD sampler Volume 1.

It was an unsavory, vapid day in the summer of 2010 as the jejune air from Back Bay transubstantiated itself autologically and gradually into an ozone-like atmosphere." The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death was partly recorded on the East coast, but more tracks were needed to make the album. Barry Hansen, Fahey's friend and some-time producer and contributor, stated: "We didn't have the budget for a legit studio for that one. So I found someone who had a real nice home recorder and a quiet room.

Gibbs's unpleasant voice, disagreeable temper, and jejune pedigree presented formidable handicaps at the start of his career. He initially employed himself as a special pleader, in which capacity he developed a good professional reputation, and was called to the bar in 1783. He proved successful, if acidulous, as an advocate, and powerful in marshaling evidence. He unsuccessfully defended William Winterbotham for sedition in 1793, but so impressed John Horne Tooke that he was retained as junior counsel to Erskine in the successful defence of Tooke and Hardy in autumn 1794.

Vext is a god from the Jejune Realm (also known as the Borough of Mawkish Indifference) in the Pan-Dimensional Pantheons. He is the "patron deity of mishap and misfortune" and true to that appellation, his world was phased out of existence because he and the other deities there were no longer actively worshiped by mankind. From childhood, he has been beset by misfortune,DCU Heroes Secret Files and Origins #1, p. 53 and even visited the Garden of Eden and accidentally caused the Fall of ManDCU Heroes Secret Files and Origins #1, p.

Bands like Jawbreaker and Samiam are known for formulating the emo pop punk style. According to Nicole Keiper of CMJ New Music Monthly, Sense Field's Building (1996) pushed the band "into the emo-pop camp with the likes of the Get Up Kids and Jejune". As emo became commercially successful in the early 2000s, emo pop became popular with Jimmy Eat World's 2001 album Bleed American and the success of its single "The Middle". Jimmy Eat World, the Get Up Kids and the Promise Ring also are early emo pop bands.

Whilst Mendelssohn admired Liszt's virtuosity at the keyboard, he found his music jejune. Berlioz said of Mendelssohn that he had "perhaps studied the music of the dead too closely." The musicologist Greg Vitercik considers that, while "Mendelssohn's music only rarely aspires to provoke", the stylistic innovations evident from his earliest works solve some of the contradictions between classical forms and the sentiments of Romanticism. The expressiveness of Romantic music presented a problem in adherence to sonata form; the final (recapitulation) section of a movement could seem, in the context of Romantic style, a bland element without passion or soul.

Deep Elm themselves have remarked that the series' open submissions policy and diversity of bands is what made it unique: "Only the music mattered. Deep Elm has never attempted to define any musical style, as we believe any combination of songwriting, lyrics and live performance means something different to every listener." The Emo Diaries featured then-new and unreleased music by such notable acts as The Appleseed Cast, Brandtson, Further Seems Forever, Jejune, Jimmy Eat World, The Movielife, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Samiam, and Seven Storey Mountain. Ten installments were released between 1997 and 2004, after which the series was unofficially halted.

Jarry's woodcut of Ubu According to Jane Taylor, "the central character is notorious for his infantile engagement with his world. Ubu inhabits a domain of greedy self- gratification". Jarry's metaphor for the modern man, he is an antihero—fat, ugly, vulgar, gluttonous, grandiose, dishonest, stupid, jejune, voracious, greedy, cruel, cowardly and evil—who grew out of schoolboy legends about the imaginary life of a hated teacher who had been at one point a slave on a Turkish galley, at another frozen in ice in Norway and at one more the King of Poland. Ubu Roi follows and explores his political, martial and felonious exploits.

His most important work is the seven-volume Della storia e della ragione di ogni poesia (Bologna/Milan, 1739–1752), "an elaborate history of poetry, which," according to the 1863 Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, "bears the stamp of conscientiousness and unsparing industry, but has been judged inaccurate, and as regards English literature is singularly jejune and inadequate." The 1819 Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature writes: "The author seems a mere compiler, without selection, taste, or accuracy. It is a heavy work, hardly interesting enough to stimulate a regular perusal; and from the disorder of arrangement, very difficult to consult."Rees 1819, vol.

Reno described Life Against Death as an "ambitious" and "speculative" work that, along with Love's Body, "gave theoretical expression to the counterculture of the 1960s". He called Brown's "decision to make desire his redemptive principle was a stroke of genius." Though he considered Brown "easy to make fun of", and wrote that Brown's appeals to the "dialectical metaphysics of hope" can sound "hopelessly jejune" and that his "Dionysian ecstasies" were overwrought, he credited Brown with a "mobile metaphysical imagination" that "allowed him to recognize the larger implications of modern, naturalistic conceptions of culture" and drawing the "obvious conclusions in bold, prophetic strokes". Reno wrote that Foucault's "intellectual life was devoted to detailed studies of cultural norms oriented toward the very same goal".

But, according to an 1839 Austrian games compendium, because the game depends more on luck than skill, it "would probably only be chosen by people who are completely unaware of the noble game of Piquet." Fortunately by no later than 1890, this "rather jejune game was ousted by a much better and quite different one"; a genuine two- player game in which the 'straw men' comprise three packets of four cards that form the initially unseen part of a player's hand. This later variant has been described as a "very attractive" game for two which is both challenging and very exciting. The only other two-handed Tarock game is the more complex Kosakeln or Kosaken ("Cossack"), which was introduced in the 1950s, but was more based on Illustrated Tarock than Tapp Tarock.

Since describing music often fails, a useful frame of reference might be some of the more recognizable bands with which the band shared a stage. The band played shows with contemporaries such as Young Astronauts Club, The Dismemberment Plan (DC), Sweep the Leg Johnny (IL), The Elevator Drops, The Regrets (KS), Green Magnet School, Dambuilders, Kramer (Shimmydisc, NY), Smearcase (NC), Victory at Sea, Quintaine Americana, Jejune (CA), The Transmegetti (NJ), Tristeza (CA), Karate (band), Six Going on Seven, Jetpack (RI), Robots, Dagobah, The Wicked Farleys, The Jose Fist, Thee Hydrogen Terrors (RI), Slant Six (DC), Pitchblende (DC), Eggs (DC), Tsunami (DC), Jawbox (DC), Burning Airlines (DC), At the Drive-In (TX), Piebald, Faraquet (DC), A Minor Forest, Smart Went Crazy (DC), Les Savy Fav (RI/NY), Archers of Loaf (NC), The Control Group/The Doosies, The For Carnation (KY), Gang of Four (Leeds, UK), Sunday's Best (CA), and many others.

Rights to other standards go for staff, or students, universities are subject to both judicial review and rights in contract law because they are seen as having both an equally "public" and "private" nature.e.g. R (Evans) v University of Cambridge [1998] Ed CR 151, [1998] ELR 515, Sedley J allowing a claim for Dr Evans to challenge not being promoted to reader on grounds of a hostile faculty member taking part in a review. R (Persaud) v University of Cambridge [2001] EWCA Civ 534, judicial review allowed for astronomy PhD candidate being failed after it was shown that the process was unfair. In a leading case of Clark v University of Lincolnshire and Humberside a student claimed that she should not have received a third class degree after her computer crashed, she lost an assignment, and was forced to rush a new one.[2000] EWCA Civ 129 The Court of Appeal held that her application for both breach of contract and judicial review should not be struck out because there could be a good case to hear, so long as it did seek to overturn "issues of academic or pastoral judgment" where "any judgment of the courts would be jejune and inappropriate".

Two of my favorite bands, Jejune and Rainer Maria, had women coleads. from The New York Times
She's absurd, like Sardanapalus or even, in Delacroix's spectacular but jejune religious paintings, Jesus. from New Yorker
"Archīva" is, from beginning to end, a jejune, half-baked and tiresome exercise in theatrics. from The New York Times
Ingmar Bergman's daily lunch of whipped sour milk, strawberry jam and corn flakes was surprisingly jejune. from Economist
He was also challenging, indignant about all injustice, and a quiet saboteur of every jejune idea. from The New York Times
Immediately after being recruited by the Jejune Society, Peter is recruited by its rival, the Elsewhere Society. from Mashable
I found the take on Tolstoy jejune, exactly what Ben described as the impressions of a young thing. from The New York Times
Through Google, I gathered only that it was a project created by Nonchalance, a company that previously created an art "cult" called the Jejune Institute. from Vice
Most of us don't even get to come close to the playfully ruffled bouffant of Noel Edmonds, such is the awe-inspiring jejune of our lives. from Vice
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? from New Yorker
For Benioff to consider an eclectic mix of progressive policies and corporate responsibility a "new capitalism" is a little jejune (naive, simplistic, shallow, you get the point). from Vice
"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 a somewhat jejune analysis," Barr said. from CNN
At CES 2018, one industry analyst referred to VR as "drawerware," referring to the likelihood of headsets to be stuffed in a drawer after a few forays into jejune worlds. from TechCrunch
Amsterdam's brand-new Gallery Schuit is choosing to overlook all that's jejune about the world of fashion, and is presenting a new exhibit that focuses on fashion solely as art. from Vice
Dispatches From Elsewhere takes many of the real-life clues and details from Hull's "Games of Nonchalance" like the Jejune Institute and its equally peculiar counter-organization the Elsewhere Society. from Vice
Aquaria danced like a pro, and while her jejune, self-aggrandizing lyrics didn't exactly "unite this beautiful country," I suppose I have to accept that they represented its collective id. from The New York Times
Needlessly angry, frustratingly privileged young metalheads describe both Tool's fans and their contemporaries, and the band's jejune angst inspired a wave of aggro metal from the late nineties into the aughts. from Vice
The baggage that Peter, Janice, and Simone in particular have amassed through their individual lived experiences is used against them and also in the rivalry between the Jejune and Elsewhere Societies. from Mashable
A particular strain of moody romanticism pervades "One Discordant Violin," a monologue with music adapted by Anthony Black from a jejune short story that Yann Martel ("Life of Pi") wrote in his 20s. from The New York Times
As seen with her "Measuring Box" (1970) sculpture, Horn has first calculated and then riddled the world of female flesh with obscurity and incoherence that in combination exceeds jejune sexual and political positions. from Hyperallergic
Christie's last-gasp strategy is to turn Rubio into a limp, soggy chew toy, and the New Jersey governor was all jaws at the debate, where he dismissed Rubio as a jejune purveyor of pretty but practiced lines. from The New York Times
Or maybe it's that we've had to retire reassuring plotlines of contemporary history — namely that we have confronted, battled and vanquished racism and sexism, among other problems — so that the notion of problem-complication-resolution now seems jejune. from The New York Times
Either way, it is far better to give that a whirl before selling shares to widows and orphans as did Snap, an even more jejune startup, whose stock has tumbled 25 percent since peaking after its market debut last week. from Reuters
But it is still considered by many critics to be a little jejune to treat the third of Lolita's plots — Lolita from the point of view of Dolores — as though it deserves equal billing with the rest of the book. from Vox
The new series, which is inspired by an immersive alternate-reality game, focuses on four regular people who have been selected to attend the Jejune Institute, a mysterious retreat that takes them on a wild goose chase to find Clara. from Refinery 29
Yet while "Sunset Boulevard" is narrated by Holden's screenwriter after he dies, Thomas appears to have a pulse, though the opening interview, with its jejune braggadocio and world weariness, suggests that something in him — artistic drive, a sense of purpose — has died. from The New York Times
Even before the bloodcurdling execution of Jamal Khashoggi for his just criticism of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, it was clear that the chump Trump and jejune Jared had bet their entire Middle East strategy on a chillingly autocratic and reckless person. from The New York Times
When all nine acts of it opened on Broadway in 13 — running nearly six hours, including a break for dinner — the New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson groused about its "jejune plot and incompetent characters," saying it could have been half the length. from The New York Times
He's just been laid off from his job as a journalist, and if it was mind-bogglingly naïve of him not to realize the shaky state of the media industry, it fits with his blind idealism, which he couples with jejune politics. from The New York Times
" Over at Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman gave the film an "F" rating, calling it a "jejune fantasy of prison-camp homogenization," adding that "Any self-respecting lesbian should rear up in horror at a movie that tells her that THIS is how she's supposed to be. from Refinery 29
For three years, players followed clues tucked into anonymous phone calls and pirate radio broadcasts, tasked with sabotaging the Jejune Institute and tracking the whereabouts a young woman named Evalyn Lucien — or Eva, as in "Eva Lucien" — who was somehow involved and said to have disappeared in 1988. from The New York Times
And yet, for an overwhelming majority of Poles, the Orchestra has been a symbol of the Poland we have struggled to build since the 1990s with jejune but hopeful capitalism, of the Poland that joined NATO, of the Poland that voted in favor of joining the European Union. from The New York Times
There's a famous scene in the fashion-insider tell-all The Devil Wears Prada, in which Miranda Priestly, the Anna Wintour avatar played with icy hauteur by Meryl Streep, explains to jejune fashion assistant Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a wannabe serious journalist, about the trickle-down effect of high fashion. from Vox
Created by an artist and former data manager named Jeff Hull, the Games of Nonchalance were an alternate-reality game that blurred fact and fiction, leading participants into an elaborate drama in which rival organizations called the Jejune Institute and the Elsewhere Public Works Agency fought for control of esoteric technology. from The New York Times
Likewise, in "Carol," an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel " The Price of Salt ," the suave Carol (Cate Blanchett), who is going through a difficult divorce, and the jejune Therese (Rooney Mara) act out a kind of Kabuki of normality, while the signs and signals of their attraction are being sent, received, and returned. from New Yorker
Any show that can cast Sally Field and André 3000 as pals and make it work is worth the price of admission alone It's unclear what the scavenger hunt means or what the Jejune Institute even is, which is fine because the characters' collective journey for answers is more rewarding than the answers themselves. from Vice
Damn Adrien le > Corbeau and his rhetoric. The book is a magnificent idea, ruined by jejune > bombast. My version is better than his: but dishonest here and there: but my > stomach turned. Couldn't help it.
62 and the sinking of the RMS Titanic.DCU Heroes Secret Files and Origins #1, p. 47 It takes approximately twenty three years for the line of gods from the Jejune Realm to be processed. Everyone is told to cooperate or face instant termination.
1949 Probate Calendar, p. 468. was a British non-fiction topographical author. His first book on Sussex was described by The Observer as "jejune", however, his second on Wessex was praised for good judgement in content and presentation."Wessex and the West", The Observer, 7 May 1922, p. 5.
June 5, 2003. Retrieved on August 27, 2003. Chapman is arguably best remembered for editing the fourth and fifth editions of Roget's Thesaurus, published by Harper Collins in 1977 and 1992. Chapman chose to retain Roget's original system of numbered categories rather than use an alphabetical system, which he found "jejune".
The third book, which contains 290 verses, is by a much inferior hand. The writer calls himself Lygdamus and the love that he sings of Neaera. He has little poetical power, and his style is meagre and jejune. He has a good many reminiscences and imitations of Tibullus, PropertiusPropertius, iii.
Jejunum is derived from the Latin word jējūnus, meaning "fasting." It was so called because this part of the small intestine was frequently found to be void of food following death, due to its intensive peristaltic activity relative to the duodenum and ileum. The Early Modern English adjective jejune is derived from this word.
Los Angeles Times. Part IV, p. 12. Alan M. Kriegsman of The Washington Post described the film as "a case of machismo gone mad," and wondered "how a photographer like Gabriel Figueroa, who shot a number of Luis Bunuel's finest films, among other things, ever got roped into such a jejune, tasteless project."Kriegsman, Alan M. (June 20, 1970).
Jimmy Eat World made an early emo pop sound off their album Clarity (1999). Both albums were very influential on later emo and emo pop bands. According to Nicole Keiper of CMJ, Sense Field's Building (1996) pushed the band "into the emo-pop camp with the likes of the Get Up Kids and Jejune". Emo pop began to have independent success in the late 1990s.
During this tour, the Get Up Kids played a show in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania with Coalesce, who they became friends with. Four Minute Mile was released on September 30. Further tour outings included an east coat and southern tour with Jejune and Mineral in September, west coast tour with No Knife in October and November, and concluded the year with a north east tour with Jimmy Eat World in December.
She praised Yelchin's "modest, endearing lead performance" but found Arielle's character underdeveloped. Rodrigo Perez of The Playlist referred to 5 to 7 as "groan-worthy", "sappy and painfully jejune." He found the premise implausible and melodramatic and Brian's character uninteresting and two-dimensional, a stand-in for "an adolescent male fantasy". The Village Voice Amy Nicholson also felt that Brian was an unsympathetic character and that his relationship with Arielle was not believable.
Strohmandeln, also called Strohmandel, Strohmanntarock, Strohmanntarok, Zweiertarock, Strawman Tarock or Straw Man Tarock, is an old, two-hand card game from the Austrian branch of the Tarock family. It takes its name from the three-packet talon of four cards, the Strohmänner ("strawmen"), each player has at the start of the game. While the original game has been described as jejune, it was eventually superseded by an attractive successor which is both challenging and very exciting.
Jejune was an American rock band formed in 1996 at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. The band has been commonly identified with the emo genre, and was heavily involved with the scene at the peak of the "second wave" of emo in the mid-1990s. The three founding members, Arabella Harrison (Bass/Vocals), Joe Guevara (Guitar/Vocals) and Chris Vanacore (Drums), met while studying at the college. The band relocated to San Diego, California, in 1997.
Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena." In his last autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a KKK member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision—a jejune and immature outlook—seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions." Byrd also said in 2005, "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America.
In their first show as Kid Kilowatt, they performed with Brodsky's "heroes", Giants Chair, in his home town of Methuen, Massachusetts. For the following six to seven months, however, all the band members were prepossessed with other musical projects, resulting in infrequent rehearsal and intermittent live performance. They did occasionally play live during this period, however, performing with bands such as Piebald, Jejune, and Regulator Watts. They recorded as Kid Kilowatt only once before the official demise of the band, in July 1997.
A claim against a public body for breach of contract should not be struck out simply because judicial review might be more appropriate. The CPR 1998 enabled courts to prevent unfair exploitation of the longer time limits for civil suits. Some aspects of were 'unsuitable' for adjudication 'because these are issues of academic or pastoral judgment which the university is equipped to consider in breadth and depth, but on which any judgment of the courts would be jejune and inappropriate'. But there was a public law dimension for statutory HEIs and judicial review available.
He is best known for his Annals (), a seven book annalistic history of Rome that spanned from the mythical founding of Rome until 146 BC. His historical account, now lost and known to us from only forty-nine short quotations or paraphrases, was written in a simple style of Latin. Later historians relied upon his work, though many did not find it satisfactory. Cicero considered his work jejune, and Livy did not consider him fully reliable, due to his tendency to moralize and politicize the histories that he recounted.Badian, Ernst.
Near the end of 1999, many of the bands in the "indie emo" scene of the time attempted to move away from the "emo" label. As a band, Jejune began experimenting with more pure-pop leanings, and prepared to record their third album. However, tensions in the band regarding the new direction led to the band's breakup in early 2000. Later that year, Big Wheel Recreation released a compilation called RIP, which consisted of the completed demos for the third album, tracks from released singles, and a handful of unreleased songs.
For the following six or seven months, all the band members were prepossessed with other musical projects, resulting in infrequent rehearsal and intermittent live performance. They did play live during this period, however, performing with bands including Piebald, Jejune, and Regulator Watts. They recorded as Kid Kilowatt only once before the official demise of the band, in July 1997. During this session, they recorded "Bicycle Song" and "The Scope" on Ballou's 8-track machine; this version of "Bicycle Song" appeared on Hydra Head Records CD sampler Volume 1.
It was an unsavory, vapid day in the summer of 2010 as the jejune air from Back Bay transubstantiated itself autologically and gradually into an ozone-like atmosphere." The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death was partly recorded on the East coast, but more tracks were needed to make the album. Barry Hansen, Fahey's friend and some-time producer and contributor, stated: "We didn't have the budget for a legit studio for that one. So I found someone who had a real nice home recorder and a quiet room.
Gibbs's unpleasant voice, disagreeable temper, and jejune pedigree presented formidable handicaps at the start of his career. He initially employed himself as a special pleader, in which capacity he developed a good professional reputation, and was called to the bar in 1783. He proved successful, if acidulous, as an advocate, and powerful in marshaling evidence. He unsuccessfully defended William Winterbotham for sedition in 1793, but so impressed John Horne Tooke that he was retained as junior counsel to Erskine in the successful defence of Tooke and Hardy in autumn 1794.
Vext is a god from the Jejune Realm (also known as the Borough of Mawkish Indifference) in the Pan-Dimensional Pantheons. He is the "patron deity of mishap and misfortune" and true to that appellation, his world was phased out of existence because he and the other deities there were no longer actively worshiped by mankind. From childhood, he has been beset by misfortune,DCU Heroes Secret Files and Origins #1, p. 53 and even visited the Garden of Eden and accidentally caused the Fall of ManDCU Heroes Secret Files and Origins #1, p.
Bands like Jawbreaker and Samiam are known for formulating the emo pop punk style. According to Nicole Keiper of CMJ New Music Monthly, Sense Field's Building (1996) pushed the band "into the emo-pop camp with the likes of the Get Up Kids and Jejune". As emo became commercially successful in the early 2000s, emo pop became popular with Jimmy Eat World's 2001 album Bleed American and the success of its single "The Middle". Jimmy Eat World, the Get Up Kids and the Promise Ring also are early emo pop bands.
Whilst Mendelssohn admired Liszt's virtuosity at the keyboard, he found his music jejune. Berlioz said of Mendelssohn that he had "perhaps studied the music of the dead too closely." The musicologist Greg Vitercik considers that, while "Mendelssohn's music only rarely aspires to provoke", the stylistic innovations evident from his earliest works solve some of the contradictions between classical forms and the sentiments of Romanticism. The expressiveness of Romantic music presented a problem in adherence to sonata form; the final (recapitulation) section of a movement could seem, in the context of Romantic style, a bland element without passion or soul.
Deep Elm themselves have remarked that the series' open submissions policy and diversity of bands is what made it unique: "Only the music mattered. Deep Elm has never attempted to define any musical style, as we believe any combination of songwriting, lyrics and live performance means something different to every listener." The Emo Diaries featured then-new and unreleased music by such notable acts as The Appleseed Cast, Brandtson, Further Seems Forever, Jejune, Jimmy Eat World, The Movielife, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Samiam, and Seven Storey Mountain. Ten installments were released between 1997 and 2004, after which the series was unofficially halted.
Jarry's woodcut of Ubu According to Jane Taylor, "the central character is notorious for his infantile engagement with his world. Ubu inhabits a domain of greedy self- gratification". Jarry's metaphor for the modern man, he is an antihero—fat, ugly, vulgar, gluttonous, grandiose, dishonest, stupid, jejune, voracious, greedy, cruel, cowardly and evil—who grew out of schoolboy legends about the imaginary life of a hated teacher who had been at one point a slave on a Turkish galley, at another frozen in ice in Norway and at one more the King of Poland. Ubu Roi follows and explores his political, martial and felonious exploits.
His most important work is the seven-volume Della storia e della ragione di ogni poesia (Bologna/Milan, 1739–1752), "an elaborate history of poetry, which," according to the 1863 Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, "bears the stamp of conscientiousness and unsparing industry, but has been judged inaccurate, and as regards English literature is singularly jejune and inadequate." The 1819 Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature writes: "The author seems a mere compiler, without selection, taste, or accuracy. It is a heavy work, hardly interesting enough to stimulate a regular perusal; and from the disorder of arrangement, very difficult to consult."Rees 1819, vol.
Reno described Life Against Death as an "ambitious" and "speculative" work that, along with Love's Body, "gave theoretical expression to the counterculture of the 1960s". He called Brown's "decision to make desire his redemptive principle was a stroke of genius." Though he considered Brown "easy to make fun of", and wrote that Brown's appeals to the "dialectical metaphysics of hope" can sound "hopelessly jejune" and that his "Dionysian ecstasies" were overwrought, he credited Brown with a "mobile metaphysical imagination" that "allowed him to recognize the larger implications of modern, naturalistic conceptions of culture" and drawing the "obvious conclusions in bold, prophetic strokes". Reno wrote that Foucault's "intellectual life was devoted to detailed studies of cultural norms oriented toward the very same goal".
But, according to an 1839 Austrian games compendium, because the game depends more on luck than skill, it "would probably only be chosen by people who are completely unaware of the noble game of Piquet." Fortunately by no later than 1890, this "rather jejune game was ousted by a much better and quite different one"; a genuine two- player game in which the 'straw men' comprise three packets of four cards that form the initially unseen part of a player's hand. This later variant has been described as a "very attractive" game for two which is both challenging and very exciting. The only other two-handed Tarock game is the more complex Kosakeln or Kosaken ("Cossack"), which was introduced in the 1950s, but was more based on Illustrated Tarock than Tapp Tarock.
Since describing music often fails, a useful frame of reference might be some of the more recognizable bands with which the band shared a stage. The band played shows with contemporaries such as Young Astronauts Club, The Dismemberment Plan (DC), Sweep the Leg Johnny (IL), The Elevator Drops, The Regrets (KS), Green Magnet School, Dambuilders, Kramer (Shimmydisc, NY), Smearcase (NC), Victory at Sea, Quintaine Americana, Jejune (CA), The Transmegetti (NJ), Tristeza (CA), Karate (band), Six Going on Seven, Jetpack (RI), Robots, Dagobah, The Wicked Farleys, The Jose Fist, Thee Hydrogen Terrors (RI), Slant Six (DC), Pitchblende (DC), Eggs (DC), Tsunami (DC), Jawbox (DC), Burning Airlines (DC), At the Drive-In (TX), Piebald, Faraquet (DC), A Minor Forest, Smart Went Crazy (DC), Les Savy Fav (RI/NY), Archers of Loaf (NC), The Control Group/The Doosies, The For Carnation (KY), Gang of Four (Leeds, UK), Sunday's Best (CA), and many others.
Rights to other standards go for staff, or students, universities are subject to both judicial review and rights in contract law because they are seen as having both an equally "public" and "private" nature.e.g. R (Evans) v University of Cambridge [1998] Ed CR 151, [1998] ELR 515, Sedley J allowing a claim for Dr Evans to challenge not being promoted to reader on grounds of a hostile faculty member taking part in a review. R (Persaud) v University of Cambridge [2001] EWCA Civ 534, judicial review allowed for astronomy PhD candidate being failed after it was shown that the process was unfair. In a leading case of Clark v University of Lincolnshire and Humberside a student claimed that she should not have received a third class degree after her computer crashed, she lost an assignment, and was forced to rush a new one.[2000] EWCA Civ 129 The Court of Appeal held that her application for both breach of contract and judicial review should not be struck out because there could be a good case to hear, so long as it did seek to overturn "issues of academic or pastoral judgment" where "any judgment of the courts would be jejune and inappropriate".