The tribalists badly underestimated Mr Cameron, blindly dismissing him as a jejune, upstart toff.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

She seems a rather creepy, jejune and adolescent fantasy.

ECONOMIST: Philip Roth's new novel

Sometimes it makes American religious belief look unsophisticated and jejune - in fact it merely represents, it seems to me, a truth about the nation: the search for God is not just a search in the lazy passive European way: it is a search with an end in sight.

BBC: Change America can believe in