Sentences with phrase «almost infantile»

Splatter fare featuring an almost infantile Ugly American with access to an infinite supply of live ammo, misbehaving like the proverbial bull in a china closet.

His Reynolds has a rather tarnished, aging grandeur, with a fragility that's almost infantile; his odd, somehow puckered voice, which seems at times to be emerging from a vintage Bakelite radio, is not so much feminine as somehow ancient, the sound of a mummified soul that could crumble to dust if exposed too brutally to the noise and fuss of the world.

There's something almost infantile about him.

Our face and front teeth are almost infantile.

The idea that in their sermons pastors have to speak to people in almost infantile terms about things that they can read in the daily newspaper is an insult to others who are there to hear something that they do not know.

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Hickson documented his assertion with specific cases: Complete cures were claimed as to pain, rheumatism, ear discharge, goiter, severe headaches, and blood poisoning (p. 118); blindness, paralysis, deafness, possession by evil spirits, asthma, stammering, and curvature of the spine (p. 128); palsy, dumbness, and mental deficiency (p. 151); deformed feet and legs made almost entirely normal (p. 152); «the healing of sin - sick souls» and «the healing of the body» (p. 168); partial paralysis, paralysis, infantile paralysis, rheumatoid arthritis, neuritis, St. Vitus's dance, epilepsy, and mental disorders (pp. 182 - 183).»

I was called to the Bar almost two good years before OkudzetoAblakwa was born on 11th August 1980 and I can not, therefore, make the infantile mistakes he wished I should have made by following up on my allegations when the other cases are still pending.

and an infantile but to - the - point narrative momentum, Retaliation has almost no character development and its second act is a disaster of storytelling.