Word: childishly
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...offices seem to be in competition for limited resources and administrative prestige. And this competition has become a source of childish and counterproductive hostility between Dr. S. Allen Counter of the Foundation and Assistant Dean Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, who runs the Office...
...bouquet on the banister as she struggles back downstairs; dogs sniffing at a patch of the mother's burnt skin scraped onto the sidewalk. Her dialogue can jolt the audience with the unexpected, sometimes twice within a few words: just after her rape, the girl regains pride by scorning childish pleasures, saying she feels she is "a woman now -- an old woman." And she utterly avoids self- pity. Instead this unforgettable play is steeped in the writer's, her mother's and her region's jubilant zest for life...
...cleverly boosts audience approval by making the between-song skits upbeat. The actors take over from there and make an entertaining combination of slapstick comedy and childish behavior. Think Baby Muppets...
...break down, civilities and tolerances fall away as well. So does an ideal of self-reliance and inner autonomy and responsibility. The new tribes, strident and anxious and dogmatic, push forward to impose a new order. Yet they seem curiously faddish, unserious: youth culture unites with hypochondria and a childish sense of entitlement. Long ago, Carry Nation actually thought the U.S. would be better off if everyone stopped drinking. The busybodies today worry not about their society but about themselves -- they imagine that they would be beautiful and virtuous and live forever, if only you would put out that cigar...
...elderly lost-cause Nazis but by teenagers with crewcuts and black boots. The neo-Nazism is mostly an eastern manifestation, but it shows up in the west as well. In Bonn, the municipal symbol of a reformed and repentant Germany, a sidewalk last month blossomed with a childish scrawl: (swastika sign...