Word: childishly
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...Frost's actual character struck so hard. After the publication a few years ago of his Selected Letters and the first two volumes of Lawrance Thompson's biography, there could be no doubt about it: Frost never matured emotionally, and the dark side of a powerful and childish nature frequently dominated. He was often malicious, vindictive and jealous to a degree that could not be passed off as the mere crankiness of a sensitive man. He was insatiably greedy for attention and praise. He was a tormented man who hurt those around him in ways that could...
...earring, bucket, thing, basketball, salami, star, nose. Form a series of visual incongruities-a tree riding in an airplane, say, and then another picture of envelopes growing on trees, and another one in which millions of earrings fly out of the envelopes, and so on. The more grotesque and childish the mental picture, the stronger and more indelible the link...
Spivack's use of formal rhyme produces childish, stilted versification. Her form does not strengthen the poem, but remains glaringly obvious, never blending into the total fabric of the work. She rhymes only to prove she can rhyme...
Beyond the Looking Glass convinces one that the original English fairy tales were not limp, sentimental daydreams. Although dominated by a sense of childish innocence, sinister, occult and perverse notions filtered into the stories through their roots in country lore. If you take this book to a quiet place, where the noises of an increasingly cynical and materialistic world don't penetrate, it's not hard to remember the ancient magic of earth, seed, and plough...
...would prevent publication of a classified White House "Talking Paper," instructing a presidential assistant to "put someone on The Washington Post to needle Kay Graham...set up calls or letters every day from the viewpoint of 'I hate Nixon but you're hurting our cause in being so childish, ridiculous and overboard in your constant criticism...