Word: childishly
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...eating breakfast, and the topic of conversation is the same. "Herman Kahn does not want war. These people who call a man a war-monger merely because he is willing to face reality..." General Wu of Nationalist China searches for the words to describe such people, fails, concludes impatiently, "Childish, absolutely childish...
...number of Eli deans, faculty member and the Yalle Dally have suggested abandoning Yale's "childish" grading system in favor or something similar to Harvard's Rank List...
...plump-cheeked, milkmaid, Putney-girl Isabella and somehow makes a two-dimensional part seem barely one-dimensional. Jacqueline Winer transforms Mistress Overdone into an inaudible New Orleans madam of the steamboat days; the accents of W.D. Hart's Provost are alternately refined and repulsive; Alfred Guzetti is a childish Elbow; Stanford M. Janger an exhausted Lucio. There are also an Escalus and a Barnadine...
Tales of growing up are generally tiresome to those for whom pimples, shyness and first love are not the crises they once were. The Sky Falls is one of the best novels of childhood to appear in many years, precisely because it is not childish...
...that Egyptian planes had bombed Saudi towns on the Yemen border and angrily declared, "Let the world know that we are not afraid of war. We Saudis are indeed the children of war. If we have to die, then let us die with honor. Unless these attacks, provocations and childish acts end, then this country will turn the tables and turn the aggressors head over heels...