Word: childishly
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However, this perceived focus on liability appears to limit the events allowed by the College, yielding activities that some find to be childish and sometimes preventing clubs from holding the events that they desire...
...lesbian-bondage-themed nightclub in Los Angeles, is only the latest in a long line of ridiculous scandals that have broken out under the questionable leadership of RNC Chair Michael Steele. While Steele was not personally responsible for this particularly embarrassing expenditure, his tenure has been generally characterized by childish extravagance and gaffes that put even Vice President Biden to shame...
Three childhood memories, three moments in modern Islamic history, all hanging on the childish belief that foreign-born solutions will work for the region. The West has spent decades hoping for and plotting a neat trajectory of Middle Eastern modernization. But whether vested in peace treaties or the Shah's imported pomp, those plans have never quite worked out. Not a SOFA agreement, not the Shah's speechifying about modernization, not a party in desert tents stocked with marble baths and champagne could sustain Jimmy Carter's mirage of an Iran that was "an island of security in a troubled...
...Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive,” said Walt Disney of the cinematographic field he helped pioneer. Since Disney popularized animation however, its creative potential has been largely underestimated and the genre has often been relegated to essentially childish themes. Even animated films such as “Toy Story” and “Up,” that received widespread critical acclaim, attained commercial success by marketing themselves as movies intended for pre-teens...
...hits runs contrary to the seriousness of the major theme of “Rebirth”—success in all its forms and the problems and re-evaluations that result from it. Worse, the narrative that carries this theme is banal and in many senses childish. There is an inherent incongruity in the combination between Wayne’s hackneyed stories and the punk-influenced, angsty rock music that he is drawing upon...