Childishness refers to behaving or thinking in a way that is typical of a child. It involves immaturity, such as being easily upset or impatient, not considering others' feelings, and having a limited understanding of consequences.
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As Mooney's mother, Vinaite offers a fierce mixture
of childishness all her own as well as street - savviness.
Sadly, digital age atheism is nothing more than pseudo-intellectual
childishness from the post-modern cult of the supposedly «rational» child.
I confuse
childishness for rebellion and punish it instead of recognizing it as a glimpse of my child's still - ripening maturity.
Thanks to technology, kids grow up much faster now, shedding their fragile
childishness as quickly as possible.
When she wanders, at age thirty, into Gilead, she is ashamed of the
clumsy childishness of her own penmanship.
I reject the latter for reasons that don't need explaining and the rest of your options because, well to do so would be playgroundish to respond in kind and you make it clear how much you
despise childishness.
That's just
typical childishness and hatred from people who believe ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales are real.
To the christians; «The troubles with faithless and unfaithful trinitarians, those who belly - up to one god times three is they read but only into it and get very little out of what they made their own «gospel» in treacherously unsound morbid amplifications of unblessed pleasings by the manly adaptive and grudgingly
adopted childishness views of Godly egregious moralisms.»
It's possibly the most over-used gag on family sit - coms spanning the TV airwaves from the days of Leave it to Beaver till our own 8 Simple Rules: a parent tries to lay down a message of authority to a errant child, and the other parent uses the opportunity to joke about the parent's
own childishness.
(In a modern era where Barry Bonds is making a claim for the best the game's produced while also being, hands down, its biggest jerk and public - relations nightmare, Cobb's transgressions puts all of Bonds's
childishness in perspective.)
The weird black comedy — never properly maintained throughout the entire movie — comes through best with Pfeiffer
whose childishness «we said we were sorry» never fails to endear.
Gatsby just screams Di Caprio from the confident smile, to the descent
into childishness and madness.
They also drag Dave behind their car, but then again, it is after he repeats everything Paul says and tells a knock - knock joke, just more and
more childishness.
It would be a mistake to attribute more to Lustig's pictures than workmanlike efficiency as applied to formula prurience, though there's something to be said for knock - off garbage done with a lack of pretension — done, in fact, with a distinct,
naïve childishness that doesn't quite get down there with Jess Franco or Herschell Gordon Lewis (nor up there with Mario Bava or Dario Argento), but manages a little interest despite itself now and again, probably by (who cares?)
Doug Archibald also directs, and demonstrates an adeptness at utilizing awkward silences and pauses without making them a crutch or a lazy punchline, instead grounding the humor of the twins» pettiness (
sometimes childishness) in a serious treatment of their problems.
It's an exceptionally strange film, somewhere between a yakuza thriller and a ponderous reflection on the
violent childishness of the criminal mind — only finally getting its due when Quentin Tarantino stepped in to offer U.S. distribution and certain themes began to show up in weirdo crime flicks like Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog (which itself culled themes from Branded to Kill and Le Samouraï, the latter of which Beat cited as a particular influence).
It's a high - gloss, middlebrow product so basic and safe that it works a great deal like (if not nearly as well as) Jack Clayton's Something Wicked This Way Comes — that is, it's a horror movie aimed, R rating notwithstanding, at children and written with a
certain childishness.
Every encounter redraws the blurry lines
between childishness and maturity, truth and lies, secrecy and honesty, magic and madness.
However, before purchasing a puppy you may undergo a temperament test to assess the puppy's predisposition towards aggression or
excessive childishness, for instance.
The non-professional approach and the resulting spontaneous manner of depiction, often described as
sincere childishness, rank as the most essential criteria for defining naive art.
The
seeming childishness - the crude motifs and unassuming techniques and the materials - have many echoes in the early 70's on both sides of the Atlantic, in drawings by Joel Shapiro, William Wegman and Jorg Immendorf.
«Critics who treat «adult» as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term,» he said, «can not be adult themselves... When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear
of childishness and the desire to be very grown - up.»
Insult wars like these tend to leave both camps struggling to justify their entire being on the basis of their worst flaws, and I refuse to «stand with» either weakness or
childishness.
/ There must be a middle place between abstraction and
childishness / where one can talk seriously about serious things.»
It's a process of a person casting away
their childishness and taking the shape of Godly maturity in their thoughts, words and actions.
But your articulate name calling demonstrates
the childishness you possess.
Lest, however, we who do not share that anxiety become exultant in the afflatus of our superiority let us remind ourselves that we, too, have our own absurd beliefs and our own selfishnesses and
childishnesses and meannesses.
I hope you are happier in your life than
your childishness implies.
And there is
the childishness of those who now claim to feel «unsafe» and who resort to infantile activities such as coloring and leaving post-it notes on therapeutic walls to alleviate their angst.
A: Respectability;
childishness; mental timidity; dullness; sentimentality; censoriousness; and depression of spirits.
My immaturity,
my childishness.
The violence used in response to these videos is a beacon of
the childishness, backwardness, and ignorance of the religion over there that causes so much trouble.
God is real, meaning it existed / exists and has / had the power to create EVERYTHING in the universe, yet the best it could do to have us understand what it wants is to provide a book written with a bunch of second hand accounts of stories that are so silly only a moron couldn't take a step back and realize
their childishness?
Your references to fictional books only serves to prove your ignorance and
childishness... Time for you to grow up and stop basing your life on fairy tales.
So yes, we must fight
this childishness.
Much of this suspicion of symbols is very helpful, for it brings to our attention
the childishness, escapism, resentfulness, and oppressiveness that have at times become attached to religious consciousness.
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