Word: childishly
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Daria's fantasy is childish and petulant if we take it, purely as a mind-projection resulting from unsupressable hostility toward the System. Applying it to her character, the montage confirms Daria's tendency to retreat into self-gratifying illusion when faced with actual degeneration, thereby failing to deal with society on its own terms, as a revolutionary. Like Blow-Up, there is some doubt whether Zabriskie Point projects hope or total pessimism. Given the frequent shifts in point-of-view and Antonioni's tendency to fuse himself with his characters to carry them to new experience, the ending operates...
...attempt to argue that similar cruelties have existed in other eras he regarded as an excuse for not facing the truth. It was this sense of tragedy that made him regard the American pursuit of happiness as childish. America, he sometimes thought, is a "madhouse" whose occupants refuse to face historic complexities, or admit that history plays for keeps. "America has always secretly despised the mind," he approvingly quotes from a National Review article. "Now mind is taking its revenge. We need it desperately, and it simply isn't there...
...what is normally the school's gymnasium, but they were, in essence, a paradox of themselves, and of many rock audiences today. There was a certain incongruity in their throwing paper airplanes into the stage one minute, and applauding with what seemed to be appreciation the next. It seemed childish to shout down relief man Bobby Kosser between The Band's sets, and then to shout for an encore of The Band...
...discount. The firm prospered, and Levin began spreading into the far-off fields of restaurant franchising, real estate and Nevada gambling, in which he had no real management experience. After Levin-Townsend bought the Bonanza Hotel last March, Levin got into what gambling authorities described as a "childish feud" with Nathan S. Jacobson, who owned an important minority share in the hotel and held its gaming and liquor licenses. Las Vegans say that the squabble intensified when Jacobson tried to fire Patty Miller, a blonde secretary whom Levin later made the hotel's administrative assistant. (Another secretary, Carol Parks...
...walked outside the auditorium, I remember having shaken my head at the childish brutality of Weatherman's oversimplifications...