| 单词 | childishness |
| 例句 | Thanks to my constitutional childishness, they have always sounded to me like the names by which the Three Musketeers really should have been known: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z With the backpack-pushing and the assignment-ripping and all the general childishness that occurred between me and Miles, it only took him a month to banish me to work in the concession stand with Theo. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Perhaps there was something childish about all the paladins of Arthur’s story—if being simple b the same as childishness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Gradually, along with his growing riches, Siddhartha himself acquired some of the characteristics of the ordinary people, some of their childishness and some of their anxiety. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa’s funeral was no time for us to express our selfish childishness, our American rebelliousness. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z It dawned on me that her childishness would increase her value, for a while anyway. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For too long, we’ve construed play as the opposite of work—as leisure, as waste, as childishness, as distraction. How to Turn Life’s Challenges Into Play 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z “It screamed childishness and gaucheness. It was very punk and deliberate and knowingly crass.” Michael Alig, the Former King of the Club Kids, After Prison 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Climbing on all fours over a daybed, the eloquent, lyrical bass Matthew Rose conveys in an instant the essential childishness of Wotan, the king of the gods. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z The first major milestone of my developmental maturity happened in 1994 when I crossed the threshold from preschooler to kindergartener and eschewed the childishness of "Barney the Dinosaur" for much more elevated programming: "WandaVision" gave us the MCU's first superpowered Black woman, which is long overdue yet not enough 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z As Spiegel does in “Dry Land,” Byrne captures her characters’ occasional childishness, as well as their precocious maturity. ‘Nasty Women Rep’ grapples with sexuality, society 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z New girl, new feminism: The childishness is somehow passed off as a trait of inner strength. In Florence Henderson’s Carol Brady, a reassuring (and vanishing) sense of adulthood 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Of course, many great works of children’s literature have their partisans years after the last remnant of childishness fades into parenthood, middle age and wrinkles. ArtsBeat Blog: A New Edition of Betsy-Tacy Greets Fans, Old and New 2011-11-08T15:14:56Z But the 2011 slates offer enough cheering examples that childishness and sequels are being resisted. Why sequels will not come first this year 2011-01-02T18:59:01Z “They bring out this joyful childishness,” says Beth Wolfe, a yoga instructor who taught classes at the Building Museum. Ball pits were gross even before the pandemic. Will we ever dive in again? 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z As hilarious as their childishness was as young men, it's even funnier and a tad more haunting when viewed in the form of late middle age folds and sags. "The Kids in the Hall" are old now, and that makes their comedy still very much alright 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Kael had a point about the endearing but exhausting childishness of Star Wars. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z To this end, Scott quotes the mid-century literary critic Leslie Fiedler, whose classic book “Love and Death in the American Novel” is essentially a long engagement with the fundamental childishness of American fiction. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Arthur may have grown-up appetites for liquor and sex, but his defining trait is childishness. | 'Arthur': A Lush Life Revisited, With Nanny on Board 2011-04-07T21:14:56Z In 1994, Amos talked about the "healing properties" of the color pink, which we might at first associate with softness, with childishness, femininity and with love. "Never was a cornflake girl": Why a 1994 album by Tori Amos belongs in "Yellowjackets" 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Children must confront what Shakespeare called the “second childishness” of their parents. This Life: The Father Is Child of the Man 2012-07-27T21:43:38Z Cécile chooses as her tools her father’s childishness, Anne’s intransigence, Elsa’s vanity, and Cyril’s responsible nature, and with them she forges a plot in which each of the four is utterly at her mercy. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z There is a sombre, unsmiling quality about him, as though his childishness has been extinguished early. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Here, Ahsoka lets loose her multitudes, her childishness and her burgeoning sagacity, and howls, "Patience, master!" throwing his own lesson back in his face. How I learned to love Ahsoka Tano, the Jedi deserter who wasn't supposed to exist 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z But despite their childishness, these were far from halcyon days. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z Strange and touching to remember the care I put into it, the sophistication and childishness, how I thought of it in her hands. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z But with childishness also comes a kind of innocence, a base sincerity that makes his sins more understandable and human, if not necessarily forgivable. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 6: Ray the Loser 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z An exercise in childlike naïveté, it recurrently tipped over into childishness. Dance Review: Miguel Gutierrez’s ‘Storing the Winter,’ in American Realness 2013-01-22T23:19:10Z There’s a reason Shakespeare calls it “second childishness.” ‘The Old Man’ Brought Jeff Bridges to TV. John Lithgow Had No Advice. 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Such pluck is childish to be sure, but here childishness is neither naïve nor wrongheaded. Two New Audiobooks Inspire Teenagers to Make Real Change 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Although so often compared to Lady Gaga, the rapper has more than a bit of Katy Perry in her, a kind of psychedelic childishness that somehow coexists with highly sexualised song content. Nicki Minaj; Dr Dee – review 2012-06-30T23:07:10Z Our culture's inability to contend with mortality places artists like Paul Reubens in a domain that was uniquely his, where he maintained the illusion that benevolent childishness defies aging. Through Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens reminded Gen X to stay true to our immature inner children 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z It is also the story of a relationship that deteriorates as Matt’s ambition outweighs his uncertain commitment to Abby, who demonstrates extraordinary tolerance for his childishness and reluctance to marry. Movie Review: ‘Sleepwalk With Me,’ by the Comedian Mike Birbiglia 2012-08-23T22:56:11Z I believe it stems in part from a cultural bias in Western society that equates joyfulness with childishness and a lack of sophistication. Ode to joy: how to find happiness in balloons and rainbows 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z In a household filled with impulsive, appetitive childishness, Kimberly, who has to feed Pattie her morning cereal because both her arms are in casts, is the adult by default. ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Review: What’s an Anagram for ‘Wonderful’? 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Not that I’ve courted the lowest common denominator before, but there’s a playfulness and childishness in some of my older work that isn’t present on this record.” Peter Gabriel Says, ?I?ll Sing Yours, You Sing Mine? 2010-03-01T22:48:00Z But they square that circle by painting Trump's belligerent criminality as a product of his profound childishness and stupidity, instead of nefarious intent. Trump's defense in the documents case: When you're a star, they have to let you do it 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z He's gotten away with this stubborn childishness his whole life assuming that nothing could stop him because nothing ever has. The legal dominoes finally start to fall against Trump 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Resigned to the privileged childishness of her dominant lover, the narrator comes to a clearer understanding of her own human fallibility. Review | ‘Couplets,’ an erotic novel in verse, explores the ferocity of desire 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z The childishness of Congress or any others in destroying recognition of the past is wrong. Opinion | We should learn from the past, not destroy it 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z If you knew what lovely neighbors they are, I think you might regret your childishness. Rant and Rave: Reader grateful for help after near-drowning 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z For example, some played into their enslavers' racism by hiding their intelligence and feigning childishness and ignorance. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Ah, so there is a thesis behind the Coin Crew childishness: Games, Bushnell and Salyh believe, are for everyone. Surprise! One of this year's more delightful video games is an interactive escape room 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z But I suspect she’d have relished calmly collecting her notes and sauntering, not stomping, toward the exit to escape the tyranny of such childishness. Opinion | This isn’t the U.S. Senate. It’s more like day care. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The childishness, which isn’t overplayed, hints at something stunted in these otherwise quite capable adults. Review: The apocalypse has arrived in Lucy Kirkwood's gripping 'The Children' 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Yet this is not a so-bad-it’s-good situation — the “WarioWare” games nail a sort of playful, goofy childishness that only video games can really get away with. The new 'WarioWare' is the game for our attention span-starved, pandemic times 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z That perennial childishness, a fight over the U.S. debt ceiling, is back. Column: Like children playing with matches, GOP again toys with U.S. debt ceiling 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z The impulsiveness and childishness that made Diego Maradona wreak havoc on the field also made him the most dominant and joyous player of his generation, perhaps ever, writes columnist Dylan Hernández. Atmosphere in Tokyo's Koreatown is surprisingly festive as bitter rivals play baseball 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Quoting Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” Judge Weinstein wrote: “And one man in his time plays many parts. . . . Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness.” Jack Weinstein, legal maverick on federal bench, dies at 99 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Quoting Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” the judge wrote: “And one man in his time plays many parts. ... Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness.” Jack Weinstein, federal court judge who oversaw sensational mob trials, dies 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Quoting Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” the judge wrote: “And one man in his time plays many parts. … Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness.” Jack Weinstein, legal maverick on federal bench, dead at 99 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z The impulsiveness and childishness that made Maradona wreak havoc in the Bogota stadium is what made him the most dominant and joyous player of his generation, perhaps ever. Appreciation: Diego Maradona lived the way he played, with reckless joy 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Now, it's not new that Donald Trump is a big-time narcissist and that his inner childishness seems to know no limits. The U.S. and the coddling of Donald Trump 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z In contrast to Trump's bombast, unpredictability, childishness, ignorance, malignant narcissism and other mental pathologies — all of which were on display in Cleveland on Tuesday evening — Biden offers comfort, maturity and intelligence. Rev. Al Sharpton on Trump, Biden and America: "This is a hard test for the country" 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z A renowned gynecologist falls in love with a golf pro, as his wife regresses into childishness and his daughter prepares for her wedding. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, April 5, 2020 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The rise of Trump was a terrific reminder that there is enough childishness in the world already. Anne Enright: 'I've never been good with authority' 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Difficult or not, the media should stop rewarding such childishness and report only those few of the president’s utterances, both verbal and tweeted, that deal seriously with policy issues. Opinion | The media only encourages Trump when they report on his childish name-calling 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z Eaton said after Monday’s game: “I tried to stay patient with the childishness.” Frazier, Eaton exchange more barbs from a distance 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z “I tried to stay patient with the childishness.” Mets 3B Frazier and Nationals OF Eaton exchange heated words 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z F Scott Fitzgerald, not a writer prone to hyperbole, described insomnia with sullen childishness as “the worst thing in the world”. Finally, a cure for insomnia? 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Even the most jaded readers will be struck by numerous examples of his childishness and cruelty. Review | Bob Woodward’s meticulous, frightening look inside the Trump White House 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The same is true for eccentricity, or “childishness.” The Power of Flexible Thinking 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Living up to this daunting ideal required eradicating all traces of feminine timidity and childishness. The crisis in modern masculinity 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z But Trump’s “childishness” had put Miller off, he said. A year after a county flipped for Trump, support has been lost – but isn't gone 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z We do not require a behind-the-scenes look at Trump’s instability, childishness and narcissism, because he provides revelations about his fragile state of mind nearly every day. Opinion | Trump has already authored his own tell-all 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The crimes, in both Christchurch and Waukesha, were striking in their childishness. Into the woods: how online urban legend Slender Man inspired children to kill 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z “But we assure you that the quality of the picture and the childishness of the whole idea do not indicate such a calculation. Godzilla was simply meant to scare people.” Haruo Nakajima, the First Actor to Play Godzilla, Dies at 88 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z “You always fuss over this or that random person. When are you going to outgrow this childishness?” “A Small Flame” 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Hers remind me of innocence: not childishness, but the innocence that we have when we are 4 and we don’t know what we look like but know what we want to wear and why. Rei Kawakubo, Interpreter of Dreams 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z At this moment of pandemic vulgarity and childishness, his elegiac memoir is a precious reminder of what an adult voice sounds like. Opinion | To understand today’s politics, look at Yale in the ’60s 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z He says Trump “scares me,” citing what he calls the president’s “unpredictability, and his childishness with Twitter.” Missouri, Kansas rallies against Trump draw thousands 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z All in all, it was a performance, in many fewer words, far more cogent than the Rockefeller pieces, notable mainly for their childishness about both climate science and climate politics. Climateers Can’t Handle the Truth 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The compound of childishness and condescension radiating from campuses is a reminder to normal Americans of the decay of protected classes — in this case, tenured faculty and cosseted students. Higher education is awash with hysteria. That might have helped elect Trump. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z James has a self-deprecating charm, but the constant jokes about his gluttony and childishness grow tedious quickly. Kevin James returns in a lazy collection of tropes called 'Kevin Can Wait' 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Illinois is a leading indicator of increasing national childishness — an unwillingness to will the means for the ends that it wills. Illinois exemplifies our fiscal foolishness 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Or maybe it was because her Twitter account appears to be run by a messaging bot, which lacks the childishness and quick fuse that online wars demand. Jeb Bush Endorses Ted Cruz, but Donald Trump Marches On 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z It not only reflects meanness but a childishness that is anything but presidential. The Cruz Standard 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Speaking of girls, a good Goldfinching must include considerable smirking about the immaturity and childishness of the book, its author and, most tellingly, its readers. If you enjoyed a good book and you're a woman, the critics think you're wrong | Jennifer Weiner 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The mortar between the bricks is Shea butter - a metaphor ridiculing the childishness of prejudice. From near-death to art: How Flay revived the Paris art scene 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z One of the disguised challenges in growing up is defending as much of our childishness as is compatible with being a functioning adult. Steve Spurrier’s retirement shows the value of a life spent basking in the fun 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The poem continues: ‘‘What childishness is it that while there’s a breath of life/in our bodies, we are determined to rush/to see the sun the other way around?’’ Far Away From Here 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Commencement season brings a respite from the sinister childishness rampant on campuses. Childishness on campus 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z A touch of reckless childishness here at home? Catching up with the Middle East 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z And yet again, fans show their childishness, shallow little kids with their booing. As Passes Miss the Mark, Peyton Manning’s Future Begins to Waver 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z In their view, the fight between Baghdadi and the Man of Learning amounted to mere childishness. Theo Padnos, American Journalist, on Being Kidnapped, Tortured and Released in Syria 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z For these atheists, putting your trust in such an imaginary being is the essence of childishness. The child-like faith in reason 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Its simplicity and childishness reflect the purity of his genius. Brazil Wins Soccer’s Nickname Game 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Remaining single meant economic and legal instability, and the perception of childishness. Op-Ed Contributor: Anxious Youth, Then and Now 2014-01-01T00:33:35Z You witness it in childishness of Canberra's parliamentary Question Time but also in the touching - and often teary - response from the chamber when departing MPs give their valedictory responses. A confounding and complex country 2013-06-28T19:00:58Z In a parliament often pilloried for its unruliness and childishness, last month saw a rare moment of cross-party accord. Australia's election: 100 days to go 2013-06-06T04:12:28Z So the satirical proposal aimed at pointing out and ending Republican childishness has been received with a humorless gravity and is now taking up Congressional attention. The platinum coin joke falls flat 2013-01-08T18:06:00Z A Questionable Form of Charity.—Though we smile at the childishness of this legend, are we not as a civilized people attempting through our charities a feat parallel to that of this unfortunate youth? Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z In the lay world, perhaps the chief characteristic was extreme childishness. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Sometimes Sylvia would be faced even in New York by a childishness that scarcely differed from the childishness of Carlos Morera. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z A quaint mixture of childishness and precocity is noticeable in all his letters. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z The common people in England itself, more especially in the western counties, believed any quantity of fables concerning him, some of them verging on childishness. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The childishness of so many Christian believers stood in the way of its attainment. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z But the simplicity with which he had accepted her whim and waived his own wishes, tore away the veil of self-deception, and showed Sophia the childishness of her conduct. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z This may consist in simply some loss of memory or childishness of manner. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z He held her childishness, her frivolity, her na�vet�, in contempt. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z The glittering childishness of the old art was rejected, not because it was false, but because it was easy; and, still more, because the painter had no longer any religious passion to express. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z Incompetence, bad management, childishness cry aloud from rotting buildings, rusting machinery, neglected plantings, impassable "roads," and impossible officials. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z Oh," laughed Muriel, for she was already condemning her annoyance as childishness, "it doesn't matter, because it is so absurd. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z This sudden revelation of his father's incomprehensible childishness, following, as it did, the equally unexpected evidence of his understanding of the situation of the state, had completely overcome him. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Cynthia had long been puzzled by this extraordinary childishness on the part of men of reputed intelligence. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z It is always childish, but beautiful in its childishness. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z The Villar party wanted to have the sword points blunted, but I said: 'I know Don Rosendo very well, and he is a man who abhors childishness; you can not trifle with him. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z She was ashamed to have been so frivolous, ashamed to have profaned the temple of art with her childishness. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z He did not care to contradict me openly, but I understood by his gestures more than by his words that he looked upon all that as childishness unworthy a serious and mature man like himself. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z During the last few months she had lost all trace of childishness and had matured like most Hindu girls of that age. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z I see your 'business' is mere childishness and nonsense: to-morrow I shall have the pleasure of an explanation with Mr. Zachlebnikoff, my respected friend. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z "If there is anything wrong between them," Mrs. Hardy reluctantly admitted, "it is—I must say that for Rachel, though she is very trying with her silly childishness—it is Mr. Kingston's doings." A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:45.597Z To try thus to complete an idea that is already complete shows childishness. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z The extraordinary inexpensiveness and childishness and impertinence of this latter gave to my sense the measure of a whole side of Lang, and yet which was one of the sides of his greatest flourishing. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z There were no signs of childishness in his almost infantile compositions, or of senility in his latest productions. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z It seems incredible that such mingled cruelty and childishness could ever have proceeded from men who were deputed to govern the greatest colony of Spain. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z It was the very symbol of the childishness of a nation given over to the sport of babes. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z The marriage seemed to him so suitable that all hesitation or opposition would have appeared an unpardonable childishness. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z There is little need for surprise however, when we consider the seductive influence of the one hand and the simplicity and childishness of the native character on the other. The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune 2011-10-03T02:00:24.600Z Afterwards, at the university, I was amazed at the childishness of Hans and Van Vreeswijck and the others. The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z The pleasure of feeling themselves well dressed amounted with them to childishness; indeed, in many things convicts are only children. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z The piety and childishness of these works, which are revealed in their technical awkwardness, were recommended for imitation. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z What childishness!" said Marguerite; "no one would suppose that you were going to meet within two days. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z "And what did you then, Penelope Grant?" inquired Lady Johnson, with a soft sort of interest which was natural and unfeigned, she having a gentle heart and tender under all her pride and childishness. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z I think all this talk on your part—remember you began it, Pat—is perfectly disgraceful, to say nothing of its utter childishness. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z There was a childishness, a puerility about it that made the men smile. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z There are two points of view from which we may regard prayer: from the one it is a piece of childishness only, from the other it is sheer impertinence. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z The strange mixture of ingenuous light-heartedness and fixed determination, of frankness and reticence, of childishness and pride, seemed to augur a future perplexed and full of dangers. Queen Victoria 2011-08-23T02:00:32.007Z Salome was really astonished at her brother's unreasonableness and absolute childishness; and Ada coming in to say mother wanted Salome directly, she left her with Raymond, despairing of making any impression upon him. Salome 2011-08-20T02:00:12.970Z He laughed at the story of the mine, and laughed at James for his childishness in thinking that a man who was no fool would be gulled by such a child's tale. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z There was, in her shy acceptance of his caresses, an element of childishness, of a child yielding to some forbidden pleasure, self-rebuking, fearing a price to be paid, yet infinitely content in the moment. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z The prayers of the-Prayer-Book are dishonouring to God from their childishness, their unreality, their folly, their conflict with sound knowledge. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z It mattered nothing that he had lived twenty-five years and more without suspecting this childishness of things social. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z Marjorie colored and hastily looked away, amused rather than angry at this display of childishness. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z Her childishness was pretty, and the acuteness of her remarks sometimes surprised him, but there was nothing to her—she talked and thought about herself. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z Is it all primitive childishness, this faith in a real breathing-in of the higher life into our more carnal hearts and minds? Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z To go beyond this and say that a child should be a model to man is to display ignorance of what children are, to mistake effect for cause, to exalt childishness into a virtue. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z Their wise father thus reduced to childishness, and their mother ignorant of the new conditions and the new tongue, the boys were left to plan for themselves. America First 2011-07-15T02:00:25.100Z “Oh, it’s very easy to talk,” said Mr Perowne, whose previous night’s blandness seemed to be quite gone, to leave a weak, querulous childishness in its place. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z At a time of life when many men are not long past their prime, he was reduced to childishness—a very picture of senile decay. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z She knew M. Paul Emmanuel, watching him day by day, seeing all his littlenesses and childishness, his vanity, his big warm heart, his clever brain, the manifold nature of the man. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z “What childishness is this?” said the chief, sternly. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z The article à la Janin is childish and frivolous enough; but childishness and frivolity would have availed the Frenchman little had he not united with them wit and grace. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Sir Lambert lived to a great age; but happily he had sunk into perfect childishness before Cicely was taken from him. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z It made no difference that she knew this feeling was unfair to both, that its childishness was clear to her whom it victimized the most. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z Consider the absurdity of your suspicions," broke in Davenport, "the childishness and impossibility of your premises. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z "Mademoiselle," I cried, sharply, "this is mere childishness, this is the weakest folly;" and she, with her eyes glistening, turned again from him, and answered, wearily: "Yes, 'tis folly, 'tis madness—good-bye." A Diplomatic Woman 2011-06-10T02:00:18.297Z Again he fumed at the thought of an untractable, undutiful wife about him, and recognised the acute need to be clear of feminine childishness, egotism, unforeseeable resiliences, if a man would work. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z It is an amusing bit of childishness," answered Madame Dalize, "as you see. In Search of a Son 2011-05-24T02:00:13.087Z He is vowed to the Titanic; his gold is always mixed with lead, his insight with childishness, his reason 316 with madness. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z I have said that the artist is often child-like; but with this childishness a good deal of cunning is sometimes mixed up. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z If you were small for our age instead of so big, it would be called childishness; and as it is, I've heard you spoken of as 'a spoilt child.' Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z Jeannette's invaluable optimism and unflagging hopefulness, though simple almost to the verge of childishness, did much to fortify Alice for the trying ordeal before her. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Oh, what a baby you are! what childishness!... White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z Her worldly wisdom and grown-up air of womanliness were quite as hard to understand as the extreme childishness in which she sometimes indulged. Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls 2011-04-29T02:00:08.307Z There is too much puerile violence and loud self-complacency, too much aggravating childishness and wilful eccentricity, not to offend and even disgust. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Good heavens, was there no limit to her folly, her childishness? Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z He was exasperated at what he considered his display of almost imbecile childishness. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z He groaned aloud at this childishness of his. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z The slight childishness, which was obvious in a great many of his actions, was a very different thing from insanity. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z It is pure childishness which makes you bring that up again. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z Beatrice, victim of a temperament which had the childishness and the impulsiveness of the artist without his higher and sterner traits, sank back in facile content. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z I was in a stupor of despair, and months passed away before I recovered; when I did, all my childishness had passed away, and I was in heart and mind a woman. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z Such pains she had, That she in half a year was mad,” and such like specimens of unartistic and naive childishness. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z Do not tell me, my son--I know who invariably triumphs when a contest arises between you two; but, for the present, this is all childishness. Under a Charm, Vol. I (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.700Z "No, I like it here," she cries with a pretty childishness. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z What absurd childishness they reveal in their impostures! War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Their very wildness and childishness, and dissimilarity to all other fictions, will recommend them. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z "The fault of the world's inhabitants is that they are stamping out childishness," he said slowly. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z His face showed that he was offended, less, perhaps, by the reproof administered to him, than by the expression 'childishness.' Under a Charm, Vol. I (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.700Z He often began in that way, recognising her childishness, and the fact that so short a time ago she had been all his. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z Leo obeyed, but his face and manner showed that he was offended, perhaps less at his mother's reprimand than at the word "childishness." Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z Then some of the evenings grew to be almost sweetheart evenings, though the Sick-A-Bed Lady's fragile childishness keyed the Young Doctor into an almost uncanny tenderness and restraint. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z There was no longer place in her soul for such childishness. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z But suddenly his laughter lost some of its childishness. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z Did the recollection of your childhood's playmate never pass before your soul, when your blasphemous companions endeavoured to destroy your pure, godly childishness of heart with their miserable sneers? Four Phases of Love It was a child's thought, perhaps; and yet it was interesting, and not to be despised for its simplicity and childishness. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician The pink childishness of his skin was becoming downy with a sort of blond velvet bloom; and that blond velvet was more clearly defined above his upper lip. Small Souls What then had been folly and childishness, had now developed into seriousness of purpose, ready self-sacrifice, and consciousness of strength. The Wish A Novel I mentioned it to the maidservant, who was rather elderly, but she would not listen to me; and thought the countess had no knife, and it was childishness in me. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. Moreover, thanks to the dash of childishness that showed through all his energy, he had not recovered from his disappointment at the postponement of the Duke of Xara's marriage. Majesty A Novel She wondered about them; sometimes behind her mask she laughed at their childishness. Cinderella Jane Seriousness and extreme childishness, manhood and boyhood were mingled in him; and, though he was a little man, he was also still a boy; though he was serious, he still remained a child. Small Souls The curé, whose name was Garnier, laughed sarcastically at the childishness of the pretext put forward by the commander-in-chief of the Army of the Meuse. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Actors, as a family trait, have a touch of childishness about them which they come by honestly enough. Life on the Stage Her husband's comprehension of her, of her childishness, her fluidity, her weakness, actually touched with respect his comprehension of Sir Walter; for Sir Walter's strength was reverent, even in his recklessness there was dignity. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece "True, true, it is some piece of childishness; I might have guessed it sooner." Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. But their combination of childishness and undisciplined maturity is an extremely difficult one to manage practically, and exposes them to endless sufferings and dangers. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them I may be said to live for these instrumental labors now; but I have always some childishness on hand.” Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work You will spare me any description of the next ten minutes of childishness. The Book of Susan A Novel I love you—all of you; the good and the bad, your wonderful woman's soul and your perennial childishness. H. R. She is almost too pallid, but the very pallor adds to the extreme purity and childishness of her beauty, and makes the gazer confident "there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple." Faith and Unfaith There is a character of childishness and poorness about many of these tales that detracts seriously from the really accurate observation and acute knowledge of human nature that they inclose. Maria Edgeworth She tried to reason with herself, to shake off the impression, and with an exclamation of impatience at her own childishness she turned over and again closed her eyes. By Right of Conquest A Novel The tingling eagerness to continue that line, to discover whereto it led, was a revelation of the inherent childishness of the human heart. An Unknown Lover They say that their God made all men equal, black and white, but what is that but childishness? The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising He shook his head, and laughed outright at the childishness into which he had fallen. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The egoism and childishness of what he had done stood out to him, and in that second he knew that he had lost her—lost her for ever. Fairfax and His Pride All this effort at secrecy is little better than childishness on their part, since it is impossible, with all their precautions, to keep these matters secret. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time There was nothing in her appearance that indicated this hardihood: she was a fair, slight girl, whose features were feminine almost to childishness. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day The whole character of the nation is there: Spirit of enterprise, liveliness, childishness, inquisitiveness, deep interest in everything that is human, fun and humor, indiscretion, love of gossip, brightness. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things You would be a hero of innocence, of childishness; and for this despise the just claims which society has upon you. Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea Selected and Translated from Various Authors He had come to reprove, to censure, and to persuade into repentance this headstrong lover, and he could only stand before him feeble and oppressed with a sense of his own ignorance and childishness. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June But you tremble, you dare not tell this terrible God your weakness and childishness; well! tell them to your father; a father has a right to know the secrets of his child. Priests, Women, and Families And so in "Don Giovanni," in "Fidelio," we overlook the childishness of the poetry, if it must be called poetry, and regard it only as affording suggestions and occasions for the music. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. And then muttered to himself, "And if childishness mean youth, she will enjoy a perpetual spring!" The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life If papa was an ignoramus, of whom I never thought any thing, the son is still worse, with a greater infusion of childishness. Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea Selected and Translated from Various Authors Maud was seldom in sympathy with jesting, and it must be owned that to a person with no sense of humour Leo's childishness was at times incomprehensible. Leonore Stubbs To believe that a vow, a few prayers, and a black robe, will deliver you from the flesh, and make you a pure spirit—is perfect childishness. Priests, Women, and Families We are compelled to pursue Herr Duehring's axiomatic scientific methods and it is not our fault if we always find ourselves in the realms of childishness. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" I may be said to live for these instrumental labours now, but I have always some childishness on hand.—I am, dear Gamekeeper, your indulgent but intemperate Squire, Robert Louis Stevenson. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) But do not suppose that, on this account, I have fallen into a childishness of imitation. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II But, the longer I live, the more ground I see to hold in high honor a certain sort of childishness or innocent susceptibility. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) "I outgrew the childishness of hobbies many years ago, sir," Jay said stiffly. The Planet Savers And yet I am not sure; and what seemed childishness may have been rather courtly art. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) But that's all childishness, whilst you--you--Oh! how sweetly she smiles upon you, and how delightfully you have brought out all her beauty. Weird Tales, Vol. II. Dalton made several efforts to pacify her, thinking he had only to deal with a phase of childishness, but found her unmistakably determined to break away from him. Banked Fires Nothing but sheer childishness, my respected Traugott,—my good-for-nothing son-in-law—my imprudent partner. Weird Tales. Vol. I It's pure childishness to pretend that you feel nothing and care for nothing, when we all know that you've had a sore trouble and a hard fight of it. Under False Pretences A Novel The childishness of the objects consumes the man. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 A kind of feverish determination to be happy took possession of me, a careless disregard of the future, a sort of impassioned levity, of reckless childishness. Ellen Middleton—A Tale But what is this but very trifling, and mere childishness? Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford Some information concerning the extent of my injuries and the purpose of the operation would have been comforting and would have relieved the sensation of utter helpless childishness that I was experiencing. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" There are sixty miles of this island, you see, all in length like the Queen’s highway; the idea of pursuit in such a place was a piece of single-minded childishness, which one did not entertain. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston Their coming was expected with an impatience, with a childishness of trust, that can hardly be exaggerated. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) Justice is not done to the versatility and the unplumbed childishness of man’s imagination. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) That bit of childishness has made me laugh, do you blame me? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Something of the childishness in her face seemed to have deepened to womanhood as, for a moment, she raised her brown eyes to him. The Beggar Man When he has a new watch, “to see my childishness,” says he, “I could not forbear carrying it in my hand and seeing what o’clock it was an hundred times.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) She acknowledged to herself that this was, indeed, the great thing in her life, and that it was only her childishness and foolishness which had made her place other matters in the chief place. Sir Tom But at these words all the childishness passed out of his face, and was succeeded by a look of indescribable cunning and secrecy. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI Were Mr. Moitoret more in touch with the rising ideals of the newer United, he would realize the essential childishness of our "official business" as contrasted with the substantial solidity of our developing literature. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 In her childishness she somehow fancied that she had only to say she regretted her marriage and give back everything he had ever given her to wipe the episode out of her life. The Beggar Man That must be a hardened nature which can be unmoved by the soft touch, the playful childishness, and the hundred little pranks of a baby. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order Perhaps it was this confession of childishness, perhaps the unlooked-for civility, that touched her. Sir Tom He said it with mock childishness that was irresistible, and without waiting for Mrs. Follet’s consent, he laughingly grasped Nancy’s hand and made off with her, whether or no. The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains The raptures of lovers sometimes take them back so far into a kind of unashamed childishness that the spectacle rouses the contempt and even the indignation of world-worn and cynical people. The Thread of Gold That he grew to perceive the childishness of churchly dogma, we know. Carmen Ariza My practical religion was what I had learnt from my mother; that remained unshaken in all storms, and in its extreme simplicity and childishness answered all the purposes for which religion is meant. My Autobiography A Fragment "Have done with this paltry childishness, I am tired of it!" answered the General, with authority. Mabel's Mistake And is it not weakest in the first and second childishness of youth and old age? Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) “Yes, mother; but it’s only childishness in Walter!” Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland I only speak of the material things because it is part of your childishness never to consider them. Tante She looked the very personification of happiness, with a bewitching naiveté in every word or movement, that made her very childishness more captivating than the wisdom of older and more sensible women. A Noble Woman His childishness had increased upon him so much of late that he was in truth, at this moment, more like a boy under correction than a father in presence of his children. Name and Fame A Novel "But old age, my lord, and childishness, and solitude—" "I, too, am alone." Marion Fay We sometimes meet with childishness, both in vocabulary and mode of expression. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type The remark in its childishness, callousness, and considerateness struck him as one of the most revealing she had made. Tante Perhaps, however, the "beautiful foregrounds" of Claude afford the most remarkable instances of childishness and incompetence of all. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) It was the very childishness of the thing that pleased her,—the contrast to conversation at Manor Cross, where no childish word was ever spoken. Is He Popenjoy? He was a silly, sentimental old fool, inflicting his childishness upon a gentlemanly young fellow who was too kind and sportsmanlike to show distaste or offense. Interference and Other Football Stories Padre Andreas lifted his brows in derision at the childishness of Indian astrology. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine Again it was, inconceivably, the mingled childishness, callousness and considerateness. Tante The entire weakness and childishness of the latter. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Pachmann knew that there was about madness a certain childishness, and he determined to humour it. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue When people have little to do they go back to childishness. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry Hysteric dreams, the childishness of the mysterious, the insanity of the miraculous, are no part of that. The Soul of a People If anything, it would seem that ignorance and childishness demand even more consideration than the crime which lacks that excuse. Negro Migration during the War To see the innocence pass from the eyes, and the childishness grow into wickedness, and to know, without being able to stop it, just what is going on. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India Granger smiled at the childishness of such threatening. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin In a moment or two, realizing my childishness, I had fought down my fear and, pretending that a scorching of my leg had caused my hurried movement, I sat down again. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 Therefore you were surprised at her slight lisp, a curious childishness which Esther had always considered pure affectation. The Prisoner The prince's activity could only be equaled by his childishness and his falsehood. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 Then he loved her for her childishness and for her strangeness to him, for the wonder of her soul which was different from his soul, and which made him genuine when he would be false. The Rainbow He was silent a moment, and then he asked what was the other childishness which Beechnut had seen within half an hour. Stuyvesant A Franconia Story There was always an element of childishness in the practical jesting of the last century. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome The simplicity of her words, almost their childishness, made Chris's eyes smart. The Beloved Woman We thank them heartily for the favors already received, which from their genuine childishness we know have come direct from their own little hearts and hands. Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly To discern between the evils that energy can remove and the evils that patience must bear, makes the difference between manliness and childishness, between good sense and folly. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete There was always an inner self sitting in judgment on all childishness, even when she was on the highroad to every sort of nonsense by way of the wild streak. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Her face was white, but there were no signs of fear there, nor were there any signs of childishness in her manner or bearing. The Master Mummer And he looked at Sir Willmott with an air of such perfect childishness, that the knight imagined his mind had given way. The Buccaneer A Tale And she put it carefully away in a drawer, lest the sight of a childishness offend the lord and master. It, and Other Stories There is something refreshing, something of the fields and hills, of leisure and childishness, in the proceeding, if only the poor creatures realised it. The Spirit of Rome Whatever faults may be chargeable on his third novel or romance proper, they include no more childishness than he displayed throughout his life, and not nearly so much as he often did later. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century "Something arresting, like Fantômas!" said Juve chaffingly, amused by the curious childishness of this lad, who could take keen interest in such a trifle when he was in so critical a situation. Fantômas He remains habitually in a state of half childishness, is very credulous, but, like the savage, remains free from many of the prejudices acquired in society. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes And as she turned her face up to him, in laughing remonstrance, he was struck anew by the childishness of its contour, in spite of the pallor, which had become almost habitual of late. Captain Desmond, V.C. Those who care for the delicately poised balance of classical taste, for wit and brilliance of dialogue, will be disconcerted by childishness or fierce passion. Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Now Luke was great at martyrdom; also at childishness. If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson It gives something like a touch of the holy childishness to the tale, as if that terrible engine could be a toy. What I Saw in America Naturally, this display of childishness amused us greatly, creating a general laugh. 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany He was born artificial, and he was born with more childishness than the great majority of children. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The patron himself had the contempt of an enlightened man for saints and festas, but he knew the curious attraction which such childishness possesses for the English tourist. The Third Miss Symons The injustice of the expedition they shared; for it would be childishness to suppose that they sent their general out with seventy ships, and had no idea that he would attack any one. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 And the artless simplicity of Shelley's technique�much more really simple than the conscious "childishness" exquisite though that is, of a Blake or Verlaine�lends itself so wonderfully to the expression of youth's eternal sorrow. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions But the defendant, Mr. Learnéd Bore, had not even got the plea of childishness to excuse some of the very reprehensible, if not flippant, statements he had dared to make in the witness-box. The Tale of Lal A Fantasy No poet gives one the impression of greater strength than William Blake; and this is emphasised by the very simplicity and childishness of his style. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations It has the priceless quality of what may be called good childishness; it gives not merely Fancy but Imagination the freest play, and, till it has itself created one, it is free from any convention. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Harlan’s heart grew strangely tender, for it had been this underlying childishness in her that he had loved the most. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern To-day I can laugh when I recall the childishness of my actions, the outcome of the unreasoned promptings of my puerile jealousy. The Motor Pirate He laughed at the conceit, half-ashamed of his own childishness, and crossing the stream by some boulders, he brushed away the earth and weed from the top of the great stone. Uncanny Tales Mabel, seeing her, and remembering all the old stories in connection with her, was suddenly sorry for her very childishness. To Love Yet there was something more than childishness in the broad brow, and firm chin. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Not childish, but fatuous: real childishness is delightful. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Again there was a silence, and again the odd pathos, the childishness of the whole thing stirred Trix’s heart. Antony Gray,—Gardener One stands amazed in the presence of such horrible play, such terrific childishness. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 She recovers her dignity for a moment at the news of Fulvia's death, as if roused by a blow:— Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical For the past few days she had felt increasing scorn of a childishness that sought to vary by quarrels the monotony of their imprisonment. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls No doubt his childishness made the illusion easy to him. The Tragic Bride There are many who are disposed to attribute any fear of Roman Catholicism in the United States to bigotry or childishness. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan But the marsh-hawk was still hunting lazily at the other side of the field, and no tragedy followed the childishness. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Speak thou, boy; Perhaps thy childishness may move him more Than can our reasons. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical The moonlight, falling on her face, gave to it an expression of childishness. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel The boy's essential childishness, the thing that had added an aspect of horror to his habits of stealth and cruelty, gradually disappeared. The Tragic Bride Marishka wanted her—the sound of a voice, the touch of a feminine hand, her airs and graces—the foibles of a child perhaps, but intensely virile in their childishness and intensely human. The Secret Witness At this period of his life his utter childishness, his affectionate simplicity, his superstition, his unconquerable vanity, present a picture quite unexampled in all biographies we have ever read. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Added to all this there was a childishness of manner about her of which, though she herself was somewhat ashamed, all others were enamoured. Ralph the Heir Tabs entered instantly into the spirit of the game—the littleness and childishness of the attempt at quaintness. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel His enemies call the Boer "a combination of cunning and childishness." An African Adventure He felt ashamed of himself, too, and it seemed to him on reflection that he had been churlish even almost to childishness. The Day of Judgment But her eyes were disturbing—big dusky, wise eyes, with no effect of childishness. The Cricket I have no patience with childishness in a man! Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Outside the window the toy boat floated, a symbol of men's and women's ineffectual childishness, always dreaming of adventures on which they never set sail. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel We have been going on with our childishness through unremembered ages. The Cycle of Spring Only the height of the nave manifested the childishness of the imposture, and declared the vulgarity of the deception. En Route He smiled now at the childishness of his attitude toward Nan. The Root of Evil V.—Tragedy and Comedy The drama of England, like that of Spain, was fully grown when the French drama was in a state of childishness. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Women can be very childish sometimes, and this was pure childishness. A Little Union Scout Dada Everything else has its limits, but your childishness is absolutely unbounded. The Cycle of Spring Her great effort to keep herself young had led to a meretricious childishness. A Little Girl in Old Quebec Honey," she replied in the tone with which a mother speaks of the childishness of children, "them's one of the curiosities of the Christian religion, the things persons like Billy tells in experience meetings. A Circuit Rider's Wife He is one of the few people I know who can sympathize with my own childishness. Nights in London "Without them, age is another form of childishness." A Little Union Scout Such utter childishness, to believe every scrap of unkind gossip! A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes Ida, this is mere childishness; your weakness200 Infects me, to my shame: but as all feelings Of yours are common to me, it affects me. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry Only his bright blue eyes, with their innocent childishness of expression, were recognisable, and these gained him many a copper when he carried round his cap after Barney’s feeble performances with the white mice. Our Frank and other stories Helen conversed with Arthur Hazleton with the same freedom and childishness as when an inmate of his mother’s family. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel After an hour Mr. Lincoln caught up with his companions, who laughed at him for what they called his "childishness." The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln The cause which we all have at heart is vulgarized by any littleness or show of personal resentment in its representatives, and is of too serious import to admit of any childishness or trifling. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays The cross of persecution, if we will put childishness apart, and visibly weigh the worthiness thereof, is that sovereign, tried medicine that quencheth the daily digested poison of self-love, worldly pleasure, fleshly felicity. The Reign of Mary Tudor I see the childishness of all the experiments to which I am subjecting the girl so as to know her a little better. The Choice of Life All the good humor and excitement of the morning was restored, and the innate childishness of the soldier began to assert itself. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Dickens deliberately invents all that elderly pedantry in order to show up Paul’s childishness. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The watery stuff into which literary nectar is now diluted for being served up to the young takes full account of their childishness, but none of them as growing human beings. My Reminiscences They seem to be engaged in a sort of by-play, and wear an unmistakable aspect of childishness. The Moral Economy Now here was a specimen of rattle-brainishness—of levity—and of childishness; so desperate, that I began to doubt whether this absurd Jack ought to be regarded as a responsible being. The Lady of the Ice A Novel Later, as Ivan began to emerge a little from utter childishness, his father had resorted occasionally to his school-room to search the little dweller there for certain longed-for signs of temperament. The Genius The act, natural even to childishness, might have made Agatha smile, but for a certain something about Miss Valery that invested with dignity even her simplicities. Agatha's Husband A Novel This childishness our country has not yet succeeded in getting rid of. My Reminiscences The childishness, however, was only applicable to these natives when expressing their strong feelings. Ungava Her childishness jarred his nerves, already worn with the minor vexations of the day. The Making of a Soul What valuable time we are losing by his childishness! Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys Apparently he had all the appurtenances of natural manhood, yet his whole expression would have at once aroused sympathy, for it was a mixture of childishness, confidence, timidity, humility, and honesty. The Ape, the Idiot & Other People In the folly of Claude there is still a gleam of grace and innocence; there is refreshment in his childishness, and tenderness in his inability. The Harbours of England The glory of old age ceases when second childishness and oblivion begin; therefore we thanked God for His goodness in taking the lonely old man home. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 The second would have been visionary to childishness, by suspending the liberties of a growing country on the self-denial and discretion of every tea-drinker in the province. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 He loves idleness, he has little conception of right and wrong, and he is improvident to the last degree of childishness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 That healthy, laughing girl, Genius of Nature or not, paid the penalty of her incurable childishness by catching a malaria, whereof she died, as it is said, in a high delirium of some eight hours. Little Novels of Italy “I am ashamed of this childishness,” he said, turning again to Captain Jekyl; “if it excites your ridicule, sir, let it be at least a proof of my sincerity.” St. Ronan's Well Her hair hung down her back in a braid, which gave a distinct touch of childishness to her. Other Main-Travelled Roads Early in December a violent epidemic of childishness is apparent in the streets. The Nabob, Volume 1 I am sure that the solution of the greatest problems which concern humanity is to be found in his Epistles, if we could only approach them without bias and with more childishness. Letters to His Friends The dawning feelings of womanhood made me blush for the plainness and childishness of my dress, and then I was ashamed of my shame, and blushed the more deeply. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author The childishness was shown in his standing on his guard, determined not to be the first to make the advances. The Letter of the Contract Shock had shattered her childishness forever, but she was not afraid. A Son of the Hills It is strange the hold these superstitions have on all of us; though surely future ages will outgrow such childishness. Simon Dale There was no evasion in her reply; her only reproach was for his childishness in blabbing. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula He was only making sport of your childishness to-day, and cares no more for you than the sands of the sea-shore. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author And the poor child smiled at her own childishness and simplicity. My New Curate Her20 hair hung down her back in a braid, which gave a subtle touch of childishness to her. Wayside Courtships "Then it is the worse for him and a great pity," said May, with the sweet seriousness into which one phase of her childishness was passing. A Houseful of Girls And mixed curiously with Jamie's dismay was a business man's contempt for the childishness of the theft. Pirate Gold As Fritz keeps a good deal of his childishness about him as he grows up, he keeps this taste for mush. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life In young masters and misses we can pardon any childishness; but we cannot pardon the antipathy to the owl entertained by the manly minds of grown-up English clodhoppers, ploughmen, and threshers. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 There was a certain childishness in his attitude in this matter, for he was inclined to regard abstract truth as the only one worthy of pursuit. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Such a mood, in spite of its element of childishness, was yet a good one with him. Quisanté I fancied that very possibly there were qualities in him—his very childishness and helplessness—which, if they only irritated an Englishman, would attract a Russian. The Dark Forest It ended in his making her a long speech, in which he said a good deal of his own justice and forbearance, and something also of her frivolity and childishness. Can You Forgive Her? I've often been surprised by the childishness of really big men. The Way of Ambition He loses a certain childishness which had hitherto clung to him, and he expresses himself with a more virile sobriety. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France But he'd bet the women had not been quite so thoroughly taken in by her cuddly childishness, her odd mixture of demureness and youthful impudence! Murder at Bridge He made light of many of the occurrences of the Old Testament, and whenever the students applauded one of his obscene jokes, he was tickled into childishness. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology In these narratives I have not attempted to soften the asperities nor conceal the childishness which run through them. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America He had none of the childishness that surprised, and sometimes charmed, in Jacques Sennier, but much that was boyish still pleasantly lingered with him. The Way of Ambition The most modest exercise of the intellect, not to say of decency, should certainly be enough to convince these interpreters of the perfect childishness and unworthiness of such a misuse of the divine digital dexterity. The Antichrist Bruno sought to argue them out of their childishness, with the result that he got himself marked as an infidel and a dangerous man. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists And, accepting his doom, sheer childishness overcame him. Franklin Kane And this particular mode of childishness is one of the commonest, into which they fall the more readily from the force of sympathy, and because they apprehend no reason for directing any vigilance against it. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg When, one day, she suggested that they go away together, anywhere so long as it was away, he merely laughed at her childishness. Never-Fail Blake Their nearest neighbours were a tribe of Indians, whose mixture of childishness and cunning shrewdness made them an interesting study. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Geoffrey McBirney had taken a long jump, years back, and cleared the childishness, lifelong in most of us, of wanting the world. August First He often spoke of "Gord," and his burly childishness tickled me infinitely. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary He tore the resignation up, and said he wished I could outgrow my childishness. Sunny Slopes There was something splendidly barbaric about the girl, and yet the mixture of her childishness and her cynicism affected him unpleasantly rather than otherwise. The Miller Of Old Church This girl was irritating to a degree, and yet there was all the time that vague dejection about her, and withal a certain childishness, which seemed to insist upon patience. The Portion of Labor There's a good deal of difference, first and last, between childishness and childlikeness—enough to make the one plain foolishness, and the other the qualification for entrance into the Kingdom of God. August First Her beauty seemed suddenly to have burst from bud into blossom; her childishness of manner had almost left her; her voice, especially in singing, had grown more full and musical. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel She answered with a dignity which seemed to surmount her usual childishness, "Barry, if a man wants a woman to believe in him, he's got to make himself worthy of it." Contrary Mary Nevertheless, here you stay," I retorted shortly, thoroughly exasperated by his continued childishness; "you are in no spirit to meet the perils yonder. When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country She looked at it all with a supreme childishness and simplicity. The Portion of Labor Is it a lingering suspicion of your own childishness; or of that extreme of affection which reduces you to childishness? Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons Behind him the boy Benjamin, his sudden hot passion over, stood watching intently,—his face almost uncanny in its lack of childishness. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman But then the childishness of this strange rival stirred up in her a more acrid bitterness than she had known till now. Bella Donna A Novel I beheld, as an inseparable whole, the contemptible result, the childishness of his imagination, the danger of his recklessness, and something like loftiness in his pitiful illusion. Romance The other girl looked at her with unspeakable impudence, and yet under it was that shadow of dejection and that irresponsible childishness. The Portion of Labor The decoration becomes perfected and sterile; then p. 284there arises a more sophisticated generation, longing for naturalism, for pictorial vraisemblance, without the childishness of the cave pictures. Masques & Phases All who realize an injury have an amount of childishness in acts of retaliation. By the Light of the Soul A Novel They're afraid of the most ignorant folk in their congregation, who will be sure to charge them with childishness and a contempt for the intellect of their people. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life She looked older—wiser; the childishness of her face seemed to have hardened; it was no longer the little girl Christine who faced him in the silent room. The Second Honeymoon The pure childishness of her attitude was something really beyond the comprehension of a man of business who had come into hard business theories along with his uncle's dollars. The Portion of Labor For two years I have kept no diary, and thought that I should never again return to this childishness. The Awakening The Resurrection Such was the childishness of the man that a possession once his never seemed wholly lost to him. By the Light of the Soul A Novel But she could well see that childishness combined with power is a more difficult conception for the common mind than rank hypocrisy. The Mormon Prophet This time, though, it was also a smile of the lips, revealing a row of teeth so small and white that they accentuated her seeming of childishness. Destiny It seemed to me that she was thinner, that something of the delicate childishness of her appearance had passed away since her coming to London. The Betrayal But it was no childishness, but a discourse with myself, with that true, divine I which lives in every man. The Awakening The Resurrection There are, in some New England women, impulses of fierce childishness. By the Light of the Soul A Novel There were the same round cheeks, the same small childishness of lips and nose and chin, the same pale complexion tinged with fragile pink, the same big, blue eyes. Sally Bishop A Romance Many of them descend to mere childishness; and it is difficult to conceive how any people, so far advanced in civilization as to be able to write, could display such evidences of barbarism. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants And I also knew, with a shrug for my childishness, that my wits were working more swiftly than they had, because the woman was listening. Montlivet Last scene of all, That ends this strange, eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion. Familiar Quotations The situation was abominable, but her utter childishness palliated it. The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories Yes; it was a boat such as children make out of paper, many times folded, and "What on earth," thought I, "put such childishness into the head of Captain Branscome or Mr. Jack Rogers?" Poison Island A man supposed to have an iron will, yet he was weak almost to childishness in regard to these flattering satellites. Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker I could have jeered at the childishness of his open purpose. Montlivet But the man was shrewd enough in a business way, although simple almost to childishness in many other matters. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad Mrs. Elizabeth Tweed is the wife of Private William Tweed—small, dark-eyed, and pretty, with a certain childishness of face which makes her rouged cheeks and blackened eyebrows seem pathetically, innocently wicked. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder The splendours of the setting do not hide the childishness of the ideas behind them: the dragon Fafna, Fricka's rams, the bear, the serpent, and all the Valhalla menagerie have always been ridiculous. Musicians of To-Day Some have sought to discredit religion as a surviving childishness. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking He drew back like one who has hit a bull's-eye and waited for me to ask questions, but I thought that I knew my man, and laughed at his childishness. Montlivet But he smiled at the childishness of the fancy. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century I have been at some pains to recover myself from A. Phi**** misfortune of mere childishness, 'Little charm of placid mien,' &c. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 He has two or three times seen that you were displeased with me, that I in my childishness could not help weeping, and that Bertalda might chance to laugh at the same moment. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Bonaparte believes, and has had the art to persuade several of the Machiavelian apprentices of the new generation, that every generous feeling is mere childishness. Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. Now this was mere childishness, and I knew it, and hoped, with shame for my own lack of sense, that Pemaou would not accept my covert challenge, and that the matter would end there. Montlivet The whimsicality, the childishness of it all, gave it a charm. A Man and a Woman They are not secondary gods, concessions to our childishness. Preaching and Paganism The Knight himself, however, was far from being pleased at Undine's childishness; but no hint or sign would stop her. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Well, I ask the impartial reader, is it not childishness, and more than that, dangerous childishness? Essays on Political Economy "Perpol, it must be pleasant to be a queen," the woman observed with an assumption of childishness in her voice. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem The childishness and devout buffoonery of an old miracle play are imitated here, as in Swinburne's "Masque of Queen Bersabe." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century But as she spoke, childishness fell away—she was a deeply distressed woman. The Vehement Flame He was clearly in the last decline of manhood, the stage of utter childishness and mere oblivion; and sat there with his faculties collapsed, waiting for release. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches In spite of your lifted eyebrows at the childishness of the word. Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts And because, perhaps, of the childishness of the plan it succeeded up to a certain point. The Hawk of Egypt A clever, dashing, creature Monimia certainly, with such a pretence at childishness that nobody felt any wonder at any thing she did. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 As a result, the annoyance which, when Edith was a child, she had felt at her childishness, began to harden into irritation at her womanliness. The Vehement Flame Possessed of great energy, Meghasandhi approaching Dhananjaya, O king, said these words from a spirit of childishness and without any skill. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 And I took to posing a childishness, an innocence toward him. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Both were rough, direct, a little remorseless, and there was in both of them, right alongside the best and finest and clearest things they had, an unaccountable vein of childishness. The Real Adventure And that same childishness is a very captivating quality till a girl is rising twenty or thereabouts; but after that time it does not take. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 She lost all her old silliness and inefficiency—or at any rate only retained enough of the old childishness to make her endearing. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement They are pretty, nevertheless, these little Niponese, in their smiles and childishness. Madame Chrysantheme She moves through her duties as hostess with a pretty well-bred grace, and a childishness infinitely touching. Lady Good-for-Nothing He said that it was all vanity and childishness, and that such objects were to those who patronised them, mere mirrors of their own superiority. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings An incident befell one of these children which in its very childishness gave token of the esteem with which our holy gospel faith takes root in these tender little hearts. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Perhaps its highest praise was sounded by Siegfried Wagner, son of Richard Wagner, who declared that "Hansel and Gretel" was the most important German opera since "Parsifal," notwithstanding its childishness and simplicity. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers The biologists consider hysteria as an adult childishness, a primitive mode of dodging difficulties. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment The whole of my past seemed a mistake—a childishness. The Inheritors This counsel confuses the stages of imperfect development with the stage of incipient decay; it ascribes to the childishness of approaching senility the hopes which are proper to the childishness of early youth. England's Case Against Home Rule He looked deep into her eyes, trying to pierce through her ignorance and childishness to find the elusive woman that could meet and bear its part in what lay before. The Man Thou Gavest She covered the little awkwardness with charming tact, for all her childishness; and then the excuses I made for my defection caused a diversion. The Princess Passes She thought, with the heat of childishness, that she would give the blood out of her body, drop by drop, to comfort him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 A man of intense appetites and primitive passions, like Jaffery, for all his loyalty and lovable childishness, was better away from the neighbour's wife who had happened to engage his affections. Jaffery It was a feature of the recurring childishness of ideas and the renascence of wonder at common things which is apparent on many hands. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria A little bitter self-communion had not taken long to show him his childishness. A Daughter of the Snows Though she spoke sharply, the sharpness was directed not to Miss Polly, but to herself—to her own incomprehensible childishness. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Her face had taken on an entirely new expression, and her half-pathetic, half-roguish childishness, which she had preserved as a woman, was gone. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 But there is something vastly worse than childishness, in his insinuation as to what Omnipotence might do in preventing, not remedying evils. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 She glanced up towards her Cecilia on the distant wall, wondering at its childishness. Esther She sat down again, wondering at his childishness, and yet conscious that her own nerves, too, were ever so slightly on edge. The Necromancers She turned upon them a huge, impassive face; and its unwrinkled smoothness gave it an appearance of aborted childishness. The Magician And as they returned through the parterre, the very flowers bore themselves discreetly, as though they were glad to see their childishness, and would do nothing that might corrupt them. Abbe Mouret's Transgression After all is said and done, the fiercest domestic conflicts arise out of the inherent childishness of men and women. The Nervous Housewife The childishness of it all appealed to every one of them, and they did as they were commanded. Buffalo Roost There was a lingering look of childishness in his tanned, boyish face. A Man Four-Square Once more she was all appeal and childishness. The Marriage of William Ashe They speak as Russians speak, with a certain childishness, in which they are more primitive than our more civilised peasants. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Ellesborough was now half amused, half touched, by the mixture of childishness and maturity in Rachel. Harvest She had relapsed into her habitual childishness of look and speech. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts The ghosts in the dungeons seemed about as real as anything, except the childishness of adult humanity in organized mass. The Last Shot But what arrested him was, so to speak, the embodied contradiction of the personality—as between the wild intelligence of the eyes and the extreme youth, almost childishness, of the rest. The Marriage of William Ashe She beamed on him, her smile full of kindness, as she rebuked him for such childishness. A Love Episode Thou art immortal, thou canst ever toy, Nor savour less The sweets of thine eternal childishness, And hold thy godhead bright in far employ. The Unknown Eros Because of the simplicity of Tommy's language and his sweet childishness it appeals to the child's desire to identify himself with the character. A Study of Fairy Tales With a peculiar reserve and gravity of temper, there is at the same time a degree of childishness about the Indians in some things. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America I may in the first place mention a certain childishness in the character of our people. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Such contradictions of godlike greatness and mere simple childishness were surely never met together in one man, and we can worship the greatness without any compulsion to tolerate the childishness. Haydn Her childishness, her nearness, made his heart beat. Lady Connie It is the Greek who defends such childishness as childlike faith and would rebuke such common sense as common scepticism. The New Jerusalem Is not this as childish as the childishness of the savage, and barbarians, in their Mumbo-Jumbo conceptions? A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga My reason revolted against suck childishness; but in spite of it, something within me refused to laugh at my folly. The Cross of Berny But we should clearly understand, that this excess of intellectual exertion at an early age, is by no means the same thing with hastening the change from childishness to manliness. The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps And these were the eyes of happy innocence wherein all others died to the Living Light, God being in them by their childishness. The Forgotten Threshold It is the Roman Catholic who is impatient with Russian and Greek childishness, and perpetually appealing for common sense. The New Jerusalem I hope the Boston people have outgrown the childishness of sulking at opinions not in either case volunteered, but obtained by pressure. Emerson and Other Essays Since I became a father of children, I ceased to play the child:—Now thou art old, relinquish childishness, and leave it to the young to indulge in play and merriment. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 Mallinson responded with the gentle smile with which a man recognises and pities a childishness he has himself outgrown. The Philanderers The aggravations of the Diet and the palace venom look from here like childishness. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle The first is childishness, I do not say of age, but of mind; the second is envy; and these are in the judge: the third is human impurity; and this is in the person judged. The Banquet (Il Convito) In the love of a woman there is always a certain element of childishness, which has a reflex, if but temporary action upon her whole nature. What Dreams May Come She smiled and greeted Gabriele with diffident childishness after shouting her name triumphantly to the back of the bus and by a wave of her hand. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Drayne afterwards returned to the football fold, behaving with absurd childishness at the big Thanksgiving game, as our readers will recall. The High School Captain of the Team Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard He perceived the childishness and folly of his favourite idea that an artist ought to pass through a phase of Don Juanism. The Roll-Call He realised the futility of small concessions, and the childishness of agitating to obtain them. Cavour I had everything locked up, or perhaps he would have made worse use of his time; but somehow the childishness of the East appeals to me. As Seen By Me To see them thus bent toward each other, in the warm shadow, which bathed them and veiled the childishness of their features, you would have thought them two lovers meeting. The Inferno Nowhere have the comedy and childishness of savage life been so delightfully portrayed. The Long White Cloud If in his childishness and ignorance he should ask for a serpent, he will not give him a serpent. Paul Faber, Surgeon The delirium tremens of the drunkard conveys scarcely a sterner moral lesson than the second childishness of the pure and abstemious Southey. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 But he knew enough to be aware of his childishness, his simplicity, his naïveté, and his essential goodness. The Secret City Part of this came from her old habitual vanity, aggravated by the querulous childishness produced by sickness, and part from a desire to postpone as long as she could an interview which she greatly dreaded. The Mystery of Metropolisville He could humour their childishness and respect their intelligence. The Long White Cloud |
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