Word: sophomoricism
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Now this is just asking for trouble, Anyone who's seen the inane guest commentaries written on desks at Lamont will know that giving students such a forum will only play to their sophomoric instincts. Who knows what students wearied by hours of sticking their noses in books will unleash...
You say "no single, essential difference separates human beings from other animals," then go on to refer to man's capacity to use fire, laugh (you might have also mentioned cry) and reason as "any one of a dozen other appealing oversimplifications." You call these oversimplifications? Good Lord! These entirely...
To fill in anyone who didn't hike over to the Science Center, the evening's entertainment was a screening of the classic melodrama, accompanied by running commentary from a chorus of Crimson Key members. During the film's first hour, most comments were sophomoric but harmless, consisting largely of...
The White House knew matters had deteriorated when Clinton, making a routine appearance at the White House Correspondents Association's annual dinner the previous weekend, bombed with jokes about Senate minority leader Robert Dole and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh that turned out not to be funny. The dinners...
Not all the media coverage has been glowing, however. Boston Globe columnist Michael Blowen was unimpressed with the magazine, writing in yesterday's paper that Inside Edge "brings new meaning to 'sophomoric'...I mean no 'soph' and very 'moric.'"