Sentences with word «puerility»

Other than that, and I might rightly be accused of puerility in this respect, I occasionally do it just for fun, somewhat in the manner of a kid poking at an anthill.

To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form — and the local human passions and conditions and standards — are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes.

Casting the conservative debate in terms of puerility vs. effeminacy — something I see happening not just at Takimag — will lead Republicans away from that lodestar and into the ditch.

They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

¬ ∂ Tanner, now 21, retains a certain puerility.

Relying, as usual, on Eugene Levy's «Jim's Dad» for a few unfortunate «oh my goodness» reveals, the parade of humiliation this time around takes a detour through «bride's parents» territory with the introduction of Michelle's mom and dad (Deborah Rush and Fred Willard), who, a lot like Jim's Dad, are mainly asked to be the foil / straight people to the picture's tireless puerility.

It doesn't take long for optimism to give way to extreme predictability, unrelieved puerility, and the creepy realization that Cristophe Beck's invasive score is a riff on Orff's «Musica Poetica,» best known perhaps as the main theme to Terence Malick's own black love story Badlands.

Running underneath the usual puerility are darker intimations: the mental anguish of war veterans, body dysmorphic disorder, violent undercurrents in pornography, and support group addiction.

The best parts dare us to laugh at our own forgotten puerility.

Its sweaty mythmaking matched by its thirty - something - decade whining, the film substitutes blood for semen in its kinky puerility (a rose - petal love scene is a classic in scarlet euphemism) and becomes boring and pat when it should've been trashy and unapologetic.

Despite a few thriller elements clearly owed to Claude Chabrol (on whose La femme infidele Unfaithful is loosely based), Lyne presents an unapologetically erotic, surprisingly mature - themed film (amidst much monumentalized puerility) despite its deficiencies and a few throbbing lulls.

I'm not sure whether the majority of these blogs are the result of puerility, hatefulness, bigotry or emotional illness.

They learned the puerility of assigning praise or blame to «Catholicism» for everything done in its name in a culture drenched with it.

Your comments * are * being logged, however, and they tell us a lot about your puerility - and that no god could in any way be guiding you.

The puerilities of the mythologies of Greek and Roman polytheism could only be partly met by the allegorizing employed by their defenders.

Reynolds brings admirable charm to the parade of puerility, and he gets welcome backup from T.J. Miller, who plays bartender / best friend «Weasel» with the same sloppy brio he brings to Erlich Bachman on Silicon Valley.

Who knows if the reunion, arriving years after a clutch of comedies that liberally ripped off the puerility - plus format, can discover new depths to sink to?

The others immediately lapse into silence, marking Barrett as pretty sharp despite all the garbage she agrees to appear in and Goldwyn, et al as shallow and slow - thinkers incapable of defending their puerility in the face of a direct, pithy challenge from within.

That being said, twenty - seven years after its release, Poltergeist holds up pretty well — occasionally, if very occasionally, brilliantly — as an example of, if nothing else, Spielberg at both his technical prime and the nascence of the puerility that would define him as the pre-eminent director of childish entertainments for all time.