Word: childishly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ashes). Mumba's music is ear candy: it crunches, it bubbles, it melts in the mouth. Her vernal personality (she co-wrote seven of the 12 songs) is what gives her CD lasting flavor. She's soulful but never oversings her material; youthful but never comes off as childish...
...doesn't have to be childish, students...
...course, that is the beauty of animation: almost nobody takes it seriously. "Cartoons" are inherently childish, frivolous; people seem to search instinctively for their humor. If an audience were to see a child beating a defenseless live monkey within an inch of its life for a good laugh, irate callers would instantly be on the phone with PETA. However, when the poor creature is no more than a figure created with a computer drawing program (as it is in the short "Stinky Monkey"), the animal abuse is nothing less than hilarious. Spike and Mike have capitalized on this tendency...
...background, ominously reminiscent of Auschwitz's human ovens. But Guston pokes fun at these self-absorbed, self-indulgent figures too: "fascinated by the idea of evil," as he puts it, he finally exorcises the terror of the KKK by appropriating their hoods, by making them seem ridiculous, childish-and yes, even likeable...
Fathers and Sons: In neither Lieberman nor Cheney does one detect the frantic inner neediness of Al Gore (so much in evidence in his silly behavior in the Boston debate, his puffing and childish distortions of the truth) or the dangerous vacuity of George W. Bush, who has failed for most of his life to exhibit the seriousness or the intellectual curiosity a citizen should expect in a candidate aspiring to move into the house where Jefferson, Lincoln and the Roosevelts lived...