Word: childishly
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...stage. He has not simply reenacted John C. Reilly’s version of the character from the 2003 Rob Marshall film adaptation of “Chicago”—instead, Glaser puts his own spin on his character, playing Amos with an almost childish eagerness and gullibility...
...Disaya Prakobsantisukh, a lingerie designer who opened her first Bangkok shop in 2004 while still a fashion student in London. Disaya, 27, sells her Boudoir brand in five spots around Bangkok. She describes her creations?which also include lingerie-inspired ready-to-wear clothes?as "very femme ... sexy and childish at the same time." Even though they're locally made, they're not cheap: a hand-knitted, torn-chiffon dress sells for $550. But that doesn't seem to be hurting her business?this year's plans include tripling the size of her flagship store and opening two new branches...
...Some of the proposals out there were just not necessary," said one House leadership aide. The new management in the House agrees. Two days before his surprising election as House Majority Leader, Ohio Republican John Boehner had suggested one of Hastert's ideas, banning all privately funded travel, was "childish". Since then Boehner has further distanced himself from the reform ideas, suggesting that current laws have worked in catching violations of ethics rules and an independent office of public integrity to check for abuses is unnecessary. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant," Boehner said on Meet the Press last weekend...
...student] started yelling obscenities towards us,” Pellegrini said. “So we as kids started yelling back. I think it was a whole childish thing...
...fatale. To her, Nola is "a survivor?trying to make it any way she can." Maybe so. But one can also profitably see her as an acutely observed projection of a typical post-adolescent female, sexually venturesome ("No one's ever asked for their money back"), capable of a childish petulance and willfulness, yet also able to view with harsh, accurate cynicism the world of privilege she wants to join and needs to reject...