Word: childishly
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...just launched a vicious campaign against Harvard women. This is not a policy initiative campaign or an awareness campaign. It is a campaign aimed at intimidating pregnant college women into not seeking abortions. To take the edge off, HRL has sugar-coated their message by couching it in childish language with a quote from Dr. Seuss and identifying the fetus as a little girl. Even the name choice is not benign: “Natalie” is derived from the Latin word for “birthday” or “born on Christmas...
...have not had our judgement (and sense of tonality) clouded by House pride are not so easily persuaded to love such intrusive clanging on our day of rest. The fact that the authors’ argument started out on a solid, economic base and then moved on to a childish rebuttal on whether or not we actually can fly to Mars is proof of how patronizing the response to the unnamed Russians became. If it comes down to “how symbolic they may be,” I believe that the spiritual power of any saint outweighs...
...clarity and simplicity of Middle-earth are comforting, but there's also something worryingly childish, even infantile, about it. Things are too simple there. Everyone has his class and his place--funny how feudalism works that way--and he's either good or evil, with no messy gray area in between. "Just because something is reassuring, comforting and seductive doesn't mean that it's offering you what you need," points out Sherry Turkle, professor of the social studies of science and technology at M.I.T. "The question is whether that prepares us to live in a world that's complex...
...novels are set in the waning hours of the age of magic, with all those rather attractive Elves departing the scene, leaving men to their mundane, Mugglish devices. If The Lord of the Rings is a fantasy, it's ultimately a fantasy about growing up and putting childish things aside...
...tact. Bullying is not only obnoxious, but ineffective in securing the approval and cooperation of local town councils. Unlike students, who come and go as the years pass, the residents are here for good and we ought to treat them well. But the residents, too, must end their childish protest politics. It is time to end the schoolyard bickering and establish a tradition of cordial friendship between neighbors...