Sentences with phrase «overgrown child»
The phrase "overgrown child" refers to an adult who acts in a childish and immature manner, displaying behaviors that are expected of much younger individuals. Full definition
We are nation of overgrown children who just can not shut up.
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It used to be that kids were treated as mini adults, and now the pendulum has swung the other way and young adults are being treated (and acting) like overgrown children.
I can't exactly blame him, he is cast entirely off type as a sort of overgrown child who may be mentally deficient.
Critics say electric scooters are essentially overgrown children's toys, ridden solely by out - of - touch tech elites who carelessly dump the vehicles wherever they feel like after riding.
Saturdays will be spent in art galleries, or museums, or with friends, or in parks, or any one of a hundred hundred things that, while lovely and fun and improving, simply don't compare with standing near 22 overgrown children shouting «Give it!
What follows is yet another slapdash bromance in which overgrown children must learn to finally become men (see also: «The Hangover,» «Wedding Crashers,» «I Love You, Man,» and too many other titles of late to count).
On a good day, one of Smith's Cubi might hold forth on a terrace, while Calder's Circus might be entertaining overgrown children as much as ever.
Roger inherited his job from his father and has always been something of an overgrown child.
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has come hard on former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, describing the latter as an overgrown child of circumstance and «an infliction that...
I'm a kid at heart, or an overgrown child, depending on who you ask, so as soon as I saw UNICORN — my eyes widened.
They're nice guys with dumb grins and good hearts; they're overgrown children, but they're not pigs.
He doesn't understand consequences, and for a overgrown child with unlimited resources, he can continue to destroy his toys knowing that his enabling Mommy will simply buy him more.
Black Sheep — a vehicle for the then - burgeoning comedy team of Chris Farley and David Spade — was for all intents and purposes a loose remake of Tommy Boy: quick - witted, tightly wound twerp (Spade) finds himself babysitting klutzy, danger - prone, overgrown child (Farley) on a road trip.
Jason Schwartzman's Max Fischer was a true original: inventive and obsessive, sophisticated beyond his years while remaining an overgrown child intent on getting his way.
He's a lot to take, however, like an overgrown child — an eternal trickster — who has never quite figured out how to operate in the real world.
Mom's a diner waitress and an overgrown child; Henry manages the family finances by day trading, at which he is a pint - size Michael Bloomberg.
Once adrift in New York, Buddy becomes a kind of cross between Crocodile Dundee and Tom Hanks in Big: an overgrown child in a silly costume trying to make sense of a cold, cruel world.
As for Kurylenko, she overdoes Marina's girlish innocence, risking reducing Neil's great love to an overgrown child.
Artists, she seems to say, know full well how to deal head on with the idea of a woman as an overgrown child.
Like an overgrown child, art has needed acculturation.