Word: childishly
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...dawn, wearing a wet blanket and an Indian headdress, and surrounded by a ring, of torches, symbolically extinguished. Needless to say, he feels very old, tired, embarrassed, and drives off determined to forget the whole experience. Not a bad idea, since Crazy Desire is really just a compendium of childish whims...
...with an innocent townswoman is "the net." This repetition does convey the rigidity of Jocelin's mind. But it is also boring, and has to be justified as a part of Golding's slightly condescending fable-telling manner. Stylistic consistency is also apparently meant to account for the rather childish Anglo-Saxon in which Golding's characters think and converse...
...architect conceives and creates, but then in the final analysis he's at the mercy of some writer-a man who knows absolutely nothing about what the artist spent his life trying to do-a man who uses up hours and days of his time asking him childish, idiotic, asinine questions and then, as a final irony, assesses him for all time. Why I'm submitting to it I don't know...
...overly familiar, and what powers Mr. Charlie is not its topical subject but a contemporary mood, the taut-nerved spirit of violence that seethes through the play's language and characters. When Baldwin finally relates the problem of color to the problem of evil, he shows more childish spite than tragic sense: "If I ever see Him, I'll spit in His face, in God's face...
Danger never bothered Wallace ("Bud") Werner. He did not deliberately tempt it; for him it just never existed. Some might call that ignorant or childish or foolhardy, but within the special company of downhill racers, Bud Werner won only admiration and respect. Austrians called him "the cowboy from Colorado"; autographed photos of his boyish face decorated the walls of stores and inns in ski towns like Kitzbühel and Bad Gastein...