Word: childishly
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...Zaleskas wanted to attack Harmon personally, why did she not just come out and say so? Was she worried that she would sound childish and silly? She shouldn't have been--she sounded that way, anyway...
...calling Silber a "jerk"--it would be an understatement to say that Silber is often tactless and insulting. I respect everybody's right to a private opinion. But as a representative of the party, referring to the party's nominee in such a way is childish and irresponsible...
...joke. Bret Easton Ellis, 26, author of Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction, emerges from the 1980s grade-B romance with uninhibited capitalism, shuts his eyes and imagines a childish horror fantasy about a Wall Street yuppie whose tastes run from nouvelle cuisine to the most appalling acts of torture, murder and dismemberment ever described in a book targeted for the best-seller lists...
...that's the good side of conventional maleness, there is a maddening side. A figure like Wilson loves putting everyone around him on hold while he boozes, wenches, arranges elaborate practical jokes and, in this case, pursues a childish obsession. He will not start his movie until he slaughters an elephant. And why must he assault one of nature's noblest creatures? Precisely because, as he says, it's a sin -- one large enough, as he sees it, to match his own inflated ideas about himself...
Wellesley protestors have been called "immature" and "childish." They are not; this is not just a "generational thing." If some Wellesley women define themselves through their wedding ring, that is their option. If some prefer another route, that, too, is their option. The key is the choice between them. To invite a woman who opposes such choices is where Wellesley went wrong...