Sentences with phrase «of callow youth»

I no longer had the excuse of callow youth, and I could not yet claim the eccentricities of age.

And while Brendan follows the familiar plot thread of the callow youth becoming a man, he faces conflict once he realizes that being a firefighter is turning him into the kind of absentee dad he swore he'd never become.

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But it is one of the lessons of fairy - stories (if we can speak of the lessons of things that do not lecture) that on callow, lumpish, and selfish youth peril, sorrow, and the shadow of death can bestow dignity and even sometimes wisdom [ibid., pp. 44 - 451.

So she reaches out for her own taste of youth through Cheri (Rupert Friend), the callow, decadent, 19 - year - old son of a fellow courtesan she takes as a lover in brief affair that lasts six years, until social convention intervenes.

Léa, a professional who has never foolishly given her own heart, suddenly finds herself besotted with a callow young man, through maternal tenderness and the desire to freeze time by holding onto the devotions of youth.

Last Vegas draws much of its humor from the commonplace maladies and limitations of old age, yet in contrast to all that callow youth around them, the oldsters have a bit of wisdom to impart.

Callow youths may learn something from it that could change their lives even if they are lucky enough to have several decades ahead of them.