His character is appropriately cold and callous part of the time, but also sappily emotional and childish part of the time. |
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A radical change of attitudes to ageing finds many of us determined to cling to childish things for as long as we jolly well like. |
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That childish hope that the world is a good place, I retain, and I think that is childlike. |
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I have a kind of childish way about me, I suppose, and that helps the film. |
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When choosing a young tree, however, be sure to put a tactful check on childish enthusiasm. |
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There was a certain puerile joy in her, a childish excitement shone in her eyes. |
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It's not often that a circus like this comes to town, exceeding any childish expectations. |
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Even at 35 you still get that same sense of childish excitement when you notice that it has been snowing overnight. |
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This whole project sounds like the most puerile, childish and willfully obnoxious cinematic venture in years. |
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It is only to the bystander that the participants just look stupid and childish. |
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He immediately snapped out of his reverie, feeling quite stupid and childish. |
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If this all sounds a bit silly, over-the-top, or childish, none of it seemed out of place. |
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To do otherwise would be as childish and immature as my behaviour in the first place. |
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When we see our politicians acting in such a puerile and childish manner is it any wonder the country is awash with apathy and cynicism? |
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I also banned her IP, because if she's going to be childish, she can do it someplace else. |
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He told me a story of his childhood and I laughed drunkenly at its childish stupidity. |
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Thirdly, there is no need to engage in childish name calling or immature ranting. |
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She took a deep breath and mentally berated herself for being so silly and childish. |
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John said he thought it was childish and silly, and that they had to be taken seriously now. |
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These issues to me are far more important than childish name calling and are really what we should be spending our time reforming. |
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She liked looking at stars and if she saw a shooting one she was sure to wish on it even if it was stupid or childish. |
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He explained about the doctor's appointment, his admittedly childish reaction and my mom leaving the house in a huff. |
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He seemed only a poor clod like those around him, deluded by a childish theology. |
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I mustn't argue with someone who's young enough to be cluey about childish arguments. |
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She had her immature, childish moments, but there were times when she acted twice her age. |
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Stories and novels written by children in all times have for the most part borne the stamp of naivete and childish immaturity. |
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No matter how childish, no matter how petty or wrong she'd been I was always on her side. |
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Year by year the government grows more importunately parental, the citizenry more obediently childish. |
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How foolish and childish and inane to think, and pray and hope, that all would justly right itself. |
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This is in keeping with Alex's fawning and childish devotion to the inauthentic. |
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But Ruben liked to pick and pick at her until she exploded so he could turn around and call her childish. |
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She obviously has Italian blood in her though so she pulls of the weight her curves straining at the childish cut pinafore. |
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When the three of them made it safely past Marsha and her insane, childish behavior, they sighed. |
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Academics will call the book a childish confection and analyze it as media myth and pop psychology. |
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Where do they get the authority and encouragement to practise their childish, schoolyard insolence and contempt of our leaders? |
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The mood of his album is dreamy and contemplative, with occasional bursts of childish exuberance. |
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Jorge used one of the laser flashers on his key chain to flash childish Morse code messages though the stage door to the dining room. |
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Usually, I touch the cornerstones on the buildings, but Aunt Issa had said men would know I am a child from my hands and such a childish move. |
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In fluting, childish voices, they spoke of their compassion for the poor and homeless. |
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My legs carried my plump, childish body to near her face, and I rested my posterior upon the ground. |
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Following the herd, as the media advise, would lead me to applaud childish petulance, crudity, and bad manners. |
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Soprano Juliane Banse's fruity voice is neither childish nor stereotypically innocent, but her diction and sensitivity to words are exquisite. |
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Five days a week, I pack up my laptop, set myself up with some Earl Grey tea, and write my childish, disappointing prose. |
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Noel pouts and the serious atmosphere is broken by her childish expression. |
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He pouted slightly, making him even look more childish and even more adorable. |
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Life and crime are games to these characters, and they vacillate between childish gaiety and immoderate violence. |
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Since I do not spend my time with childish pranks and games, they don't see me as one of them. |
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I am impressed with the other family though, who kept their cool in the face of such childish behaviour and showed what decent people they were. |
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He had never been one to read for any long amount of time, and the childish style and chicken scratch print was already beginning to bother him. |
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With childish glee, I discovered an exercise bike with a television screen attached to the front. |
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Her compositions were childish compared to the glories of baroque counterpoint. |
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No puerile, childish criticisms will diminish their importance, nor minimise their influence on our national psyche. |
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All the hip hop and snide answers only make him even more childish and less sexually desirable. |
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I felt his arms encircle my waist, and suddenly, we were five years old again, nothing mattered except our childish games, there was no war. |
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Patrick only entertained these imaginings for a second before he dismissed them as childish and silly. |
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So many times in the past we've seen chairmen play silly negotiating games in a childish effort to extract a few more bob from a buying club. |
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The problem is that I have this childish belief in consistency and a dislike of double standards. |
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Anyway around the age of 16 I felt I should put away childish things and gave up aeromodelling. |
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Maybe because he had long since given up hope that such a wish was anything but a childish dream. |
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She knew it was a childish action but she found that she was not angry with him anymore. |
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He will be witless and will revel in childish things like fighting and kicking a ball about. |
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But his childish repetition of gritty details makes A Million Little Pieces not only tedious, but downright farcical in spots. |
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No less clearly he rejects the childish anthropomorphic trend of human thought. |
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Is it childish for me to refuse to imagine life anywhere else when I haven't tried it yet? |
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Etskae's childish voice rang out, clearly audible even over the sounds of battle. |
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Isis looked over at her brother, who was looking at her with a mixture of appraisement and childish conceit. |
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Alora had had boyfriends before when she was a two or three years younger, but only childish romances, nothing serious. |
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Every atom of me still wants to hold on to those childish beliefs that sometime in the future it will all be different. |
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The evil magician slapped at the air as a malicious grin swept across his childish face. |
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Even wild and childish Kyle was poised behind his keyboard, black buttoned shirt, tails hanging unmannered over his casual blue jeans. |
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Seashells sang of dolphin tales, and sand dollars could be exchanged for coral necklaces from the nearby childish entrepreneur. |
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In a childish moment I picked the scab from my football knee dark red blood flowed down my leg. |
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In the movies, similar extravagance only fuels childish fantasies of omnipotence and Manichaean notions of how evil exists in the world. |
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All childish schoolboy humour, no doubt, but we enjoyed it enormously and laughed ourselves silly. |
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The whole bag of tricks of the average business man, or even of the average professional man, is inordinately childish. |
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Like toddlers going through the terrible twos their only response to anything with which they disagree is childish destruction. |
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Its childish simplicity, with cheap cha-cha beatbox rhythm and wobbly guitar, is both disarming and strangely poignant. |
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Spurning such childish gadgets, adults look for something top-end to show off their more sophisticated tastes. |
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But it put me in mind of how essentially childish these office parties are. |
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Swinging on a trapeze is like your third-grade swingset times ten, and the surge of childish adrenaline makes you giddy. |
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He cried, and the next instant could have bitten his tongue off for the childish vanity of the speech. |
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These people are also kind of childish, and if confronted by the world directly seem to only be able to understand it in terms of black humour. |
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Describing an object, sentiment or situation which is cute in a sickly, laughable, boring, old, shudderingly childish and overly sweet way. |
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I flushed at the childish nickname, but crossed the room quickly to my mother's side. |
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The battle between them is one of childish machismo and turns on the question of one of them being a rat. |
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She's childish, sullen, moody and volatile, prone to outbursts of jealousy, weeping, rage and laughter. |
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Her blonde hair was a mop of curls framing her round childish face dominated by large brown eyes. |
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Like Elton John before him, he has also hooked up with a tunesmith who can turn his sometimes childish lyrics into late-night singalongs. |
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Each side accused the other of stubborn, single-minded, almost childish behavior. |
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Being sick is bad, bad, bad, childish and despicable, unappealing and unladylike. |
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Does she not have the same right as the other councillors to offer fresh ideas, without fear of needless, unconstructive and childish bullying? |
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Instead of helping me, he became offended and childish in his unhelpfulness. |
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It gets to be quite fun, in an awful kind of way, to spot the childish name-calling, the insult words that don't mean anything. |
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Once again you resorted to childish name-calling and petty slurs to try to demonise the party. |
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This was one of the most childish displays of unprofessional conduct I've seen in the media ever. |
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He asked please and then the petty name-calling and childish insults started. |
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Theirs is an impotent, childish rage, born of a sense of failure and a resentment of American power. |
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He makes his presence small, flattens his childish ego into something still and insignificant. |
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Surprised at the childish attitude, they were about to snort, when his smart remark caught them off guard. |
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His unstatesmanlike behavior and childish tough talk makes many people in other countries wince. |
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Barbie, that plastic icon of childish femininity, has appeared in many guises over a long but curiously unwrinkled life. |
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When not indulging in childish grossout humor or overstuffing their tracks with studio gimmickry, The Faint still prove powerful songsmiths. |
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This was not the jitters one would get before a battle, or even the childish night terrors she got when one of her nightmares hit her. |
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It is childish and hateful to manufacture petty, vindictive cliques who seem to thrive on aloofness, exclusivity and secrecy. |
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He had a mess of shaggy violet colored hair and violet eyes that shone with a mixture of childish curiosity and animal-like awareness. |
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Its splenetic and arrogant final edition on Thursday also appeared as childish anger from staff. |
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It wasn't a dream, a hallucination, or a figment of my wild, childish imagination. |
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It's hard to believe there's still a fan base for a guy who stutters childish rhymes over canned reggae beats. |
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Adults, with a hankering for childish humour, will delight in his misadventures. |
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A childish glee overtook her, and she put out her tongue to catch the falling rain drops. |
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Her dark eyes are wide with childish terror, and she hiccups so dramatically that, at first, she cannot speak at all. |
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Her voice was high and almost childish as she gave the man a playful swat on the arm. |
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Within half an hour my confidence and style excelled, resulting in much hilarity and a good dose of old-fashioned childish fun. |
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He remained in her memory as a foolish and childish romance, a man less than perfect. |
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Thank you for always listening to my childish secrets and stupid rattlings. |
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I gave a small laugh and gazed at the ceiling, feeling monumentally stupid and childish. |
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It is one of the everyday hazards encountered by innocent children as they go about their childish play. |
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There are platoons of child actors who don't come across as childish at all. |
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Her statement that boys of fifteen should put aside childish things like ball games suggests a massive chip on her shoulder. |
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She wears perfume on her thin, childish wrist and her eyes light up at the sight of big hooped earrings and jewelled necklaces. |
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At other times it provokes genuine, childish delight, the wonderment of having stumbled across a secret. |
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One of the guys is obviously the artist, and he is jovial, almost childish in his delight. |
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As we pulled our car into her driveway, I discerned strange, childish voices in the garden. |
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With a little love, devotion and childish enthusiasm even a silly story can inspire hope in the future of the nursery world. |
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Several tracks convey the impression of a childish, playful imagination at work. |
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Binoculars were lifted to the eyes of the big man and what he saw in the sky brought on an outpouring of childish excitement. |
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The location and dates were penned in a cramped, childish script. |
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It's a terrible, infantile longing for really childish flavours. |
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These actions almost cost their team 15 yards in penalties and the police were called to the sidelines to ensure no further childish antics would occur. |
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I can think of no pursuit more childish than an Oval Office-initiated food fight with a talk-radio host. |
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His recent attack of you was childish and abusive and I was embarrassed for him for having lost control and showing anger in public, which in Asia entails a loss of face. |
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Of course, the historical Luddites were neither childish nor naive. |
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By comparing the Republicans, unfavorably, to his two children, he was dismissing their concerns as childish and unserious. |
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It seems to be attempting satire in the vein of a Grand Theft Auto game, but, like gta is occasionally, it just seems childish. |
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I got angry with him and told him he was being childish and stupid. |
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The gorgeous sushi chef he meets and falls in love with, Mi-do, is equally silly and childish. |
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Alex followed behind him meekly, feeling dumb for her childish outburst. |
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Their childish concerns and pleasures play out in a world of radiant heat and crisp shadows, tangerine sunsets and brilliant blue waves splashing against the Malecon. |
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Let them know that their childish tantrums will get them nowhere. |
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We dismiss their worries about eating meat as silly and childish. |
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But if your husband is not usually childish and oversensitive, consider the possibility that from his perspective this is not an isolated incident. |
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Gone was the mercurial, tempestuous socialite who didn't know what she wanted, swung from mood to mood, loved childish games, or danced the night away. |
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When he died of lung cancer at 76, not only his music, but many doughty values died with him, never mind that he had also been childish, even mulish, often at the wrong times. |
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The approach is old-fashioned, research slapdash, scholarship negligible, the judgments inane, the characterisation childish, the tone sick-makingly patriotic. |
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Then he wrote out his name, the lettering a little scrawly and childish. |
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Small strange drawings were scribbled and scribed into the wet surfaces, simple childish cave illustration that seemed so alien to all that had preceded it. |
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The constant public childish bickering that had been going on between them ever since Matt had grown so irritable and ticklish some months ago could not have gone unnoticed. |
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The walls here are covered in childish murals painted by the women. |
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The slimy, childish, petulant Viserys starts off as a symbol of everything about Targaryen rule Westeros has rejected. |
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Why turn a genuine good-news story into an expression of childish pettiness? |
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She jumped up, full of childish excitement, and flung her arms around him. |
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Come on, do you really expect us to fall for such a childish ploy? |
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How long were you planning on keeping this childish play up? |
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The point of a police kettle is to make you feel small and scared, to strike at the childish part of every person that's frightened of getting in trouble. |
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The irony and sometimes childish iconoclasm are still there but this is a film in which a burning sense of outrage and frustration also dominate and set the tone. |
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I refer to the people who have caused the governmental process to grind to a halt over the past five years by their childish obstructionism in the legislature. |
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A commendable campaign against an ill-considered planning decision seems to have been hijacked by a bunch of tree-hugging show-offs with a childish obsession with fancy dress. |
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So from now on there'll be no childish attention-seeking and mentions of laryngitis and bronchial pneumonia every time I get a slight cough or sore throat. |
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While the politics of the event will be childish, at least the music on offer will be immeasurably better than the '80s new-wave poseurs who dominated Live Aid. |
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Either a quintessential cult record or another cocky slice of childish bombast, the CD is still a more personal confession than many of its posey peers. |
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Her voice was musical and gentle as she sang childish rhymes of the frightful Finn Mac Coul so that the young ones knelt attentively and obediently along side her. |
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Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter. |
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The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep. |
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But suppose I hang about till eighty and die a childish old gentleman with a mind all gone to seed. |
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She didn't want to lose their childish battle of wills, but neither did she want some parasite swimming up her hoo-ha. |
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Particular professors and sober Scotchmen may denounce as childish the desire for imaginative fiction. |
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The veil was woven of faith, illusion, and childish prepossession, through which the world and history were seen clad in strange hues. |
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At Ramsgate in October 1835, Victoria contracted a severe fever, which Conroy initially dismissed as a childish pretence. |
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David spends his early years in relative happiness with his loving, childish mother and their kindly housekeeper, Peggotty. |
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Not that there is anything really inexplicable in these odd directions of childish fear, any more than in the unpredictable shyings of the horse. |
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What an arrogant, bullying, vindictive, childish, harrumphing, leotard-lurking, bombastic bloater of a toad-shaped Bagpuss wannabe. |
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Can't we all sit down and discuss this adultly, without the childish name-calling? |
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With a Peter Pan collar as well, this get-up is too childish for such a yummy mummy. |
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A madling acts in opposition to common sense. He is an owd madling whose reason has become childish by the lapse of years. |
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His behaviour was regarded as unprofessional and childish, and he frequently threw tantrums, often threatening to abandon projects. |
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Literary history abounds with cases of multi-addiction and personal mayhem of the most childish sort. |
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They are misguided by misinformation, and talking the Undisputed Truth is a physical means of weaning these little lambies from their childish and sheep like behaviour. |
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Max Richmond, 13 prefers to wear a traditional tie of exactly the same design, as he feels that the clip-ons are uncomfortable and childish, the Daily Mail reported. |
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A childish view of children as noble savages often is part of a belief that nature is a sweet garden and science and technology are spoilsome intrusions. |
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Things we know well have been distanced from us, rendered functionless and abnormal, either throu gh somewhat childish arrangements or sexual connotations. |
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When my mum picked me up after school I'd always start telling her some childish anecdote about playing conkers, scrumping apples or sniffing marker pens. |
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Yes, it may be a bunch of OAPs farting around and being childish. |
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