| 单词 | puerile |
| 例句 | The yearbook group pays him a retainer because he says his time is too valuable to work on puerile and fleeting pursuits like the high school yearbook for free. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They were reckless, puerile, congenial, naive, presumptuous, deferential and rambunctious. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z No one tried harder than Satie to puncture the pretension of Bayreuth, even if his rejection of the Wagner legacy may have been at times rather puerile. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “When I want mountains made out of molehills, when I want to legitimize their puerile actions by paying attention to them, I’ll let you know.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A puerile tear dimmed my eye while I looked—a tear of disappointment and impatience; ashamed of it, I wiped it away. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He did not speak down to her or at her, nor content himself with puerile questions about her life or monologues of his own activities. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But no public figure would go further than that, given the genre’s reputation for being puerile and pulpy. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “Here I Sit, Broken Hearted … a Bathroom Odyssey’ This hourlong exercise in puerile scatology seemingly aspires to emulate, oh, perhaps “The Book of Mormon” in its exaltation of the coarse and the crude. Theater Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z As for the company’s name, drawn from one of Trump’s debate lines with Clinton: “It was so funny,” O’Hearn says, “that somebody that old could be so puerile.” Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z While the sport’s biggest stage, that of World Wrestling Entertainment, is often puerile and retrograde in its presentation, even that entertainment powerhouse is capable of staging moments of transcendent spectacle. Donald Trump, professional wrestler: How the billionaire body-slammed GOP politics using a very peculiar playbook 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z This is just ridiculous and puerile, as is much of “Freedom.” Dance Review: Jasmin Vardimon Company Dances at Montclair State 2013-04-21T20:37:31Z “Probably every puerile joke is in there,” he said. Right Man to Handle an Irreverent Alien 2011-03-11T05:36:15Z Mr. Brown sings the first half as Lil Dicky, puerile as they come, and Lil Dicky raps the second half as Mr. Brown, alluding to his criminal history and alleged gang ties. The Playlist: Pearl Jam Kicks Up a Fury, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z But under all the bellowing is a visual and aural wonder that’s impossible to dismiss as purely puerile. Swiss Army Man's farting folly could be the cure for Hollywood's 'sequelitis' 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z This doesn't render the more puerile gags funny, but it keeps us from growing testy. Imagination at play in a simple but joyful 'Into the Woods' 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Their scenes tend to devolve into puerile antics and basically just gum up the works. Review: In ‘These Paper Bullets!,’ a Chance to Twist and Shout 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z “To deny this was puerile. Read George Steiner. Read ‘Lessons of the Masters.’” Mourning With the Help of a Great Dane 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Some found the film puerile: I was part of that some. ‘Deadpool 2’ Review: Sending Up Superheroism Once Again 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z It is a bit puerile but also perfectly appropriate that the main marketing Web site for the game is Yourmomhatesthis.com. Video Game Review: Space Zombies, Prepare to Meet Your Mower 2011-02-01T19:52:29Z The story of a writer seeking "story worthy" wisdom and insight from self-destruction isn't just narcissistic, it's exhibitionism stacked on top of puerile vanity. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z And yet for all their outrageousness and puerile dissipation, Ms. Headland’s heedless youngsters are also deeply and disturbingly real. | 'Bachelorette': Wedding Trash Talk in Leslye Headland?s Comedy 2010-07-27T02:04:00Z “For a thing that puerile to be afforded such grandiosity makes it land, makes it delicious.” Curses! And Why They Work So Well Onstage (Sometimes) 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The show is as puerile and scatological as any male-centered series on Comedy Central, but oddly enough, it’s the self-degradation that gives it feminist cachet. Television Review: ‘Broad City’ Brings a Female Twist to Failure 2014-01-21T21:57:40Z Thatcher Ding Dong! chart campaign is puerile – but the best protest available The possibility of Ding Dong! Sleeve notes: Thatcher's musical legacy 2013-04-12T12:39:24Z Even the puerile stuff is put to work in the service of a central thesis, which is that there's no such thing as normal, and we're all teeming with repressed crazy impulses. Greg Davies – review 2012-11-05T19:08:06Z This is a puerile argument, says David Wilson, a professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, who was a psychological adviser to Big Brother before resigning, "very quickly when I realised what was involved". Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z The Sinatra surrogate who stepped to the microphone was the evening’s host, Seth MacFarlane, the architect of “Family Guy” and other puerile entertainments. Review: Stars Pay Tribute to Frank Sinatra 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z That song fizzles, though, largely because this is a band that sounds better and more relaxed the more puerile it gets and the heavier its panting is. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New music from Alejandro Escovedo, 3OH!3, Kylie Minogue 2010-07-04T21:55:00Z They were puerile and profane and then somehow, by the ’90s, serious musicians with something to say and startling innovations to contribute. The Beastie Boys Put Down the Mic and Pick Up the Pen 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Rolling Stone at first called its 1977 debut album “absolutely puerile,” but by 2012 had put it in a list of the 500 greatest albums ever made. Popcast: Dissecting the Legacy of Alan Vega and Suicide 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “Omens” is the fourth album of puerile, thunderous club pop with rock accents from 3OH!3, an act that is both not as clever as it thinks and far savvier than it lets on. New Music: New Albums by 3OH!3 and Falling in Reverse 2013-06-17T21:35:59Z Yes, the plot is outrageously puerile, and the black-and-white illustrations are primitive. Super Diaper Baby is back in all his powder and glory 2011-07-23T01:23:32Z And some of the dialogue is painfully puerile—but you can’t blame the new production for that; it’s equally painful when you read the libretto in the Library of America’s just-published two-volume “American Musicals.” An “On the Town” for Our Time 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Some are puerile, some po-faced, some mildly amusing, some not. TV highlights 28/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:08:17Z At breakfast he'd be writing this puerile, foul-mouthed stuff to his cousin; by evening, he'd be completing a masterpiece while chatting to his wife. How we made: Peter Shaffer and Felicity Kendal on Amadeus 2013-01-14T18:59:01Z Whatever its facets, “Black Monday” will live or die on the strength of its jokes, which range from profanely inventive à la “Veep” to shock-jock puerile. ‘Black Monday’ Mines ’80s Excess for Comedy and Commentary 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z But the effect is puerile rather than provocative, and fundamentally meaningless. Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z In their attempt to appeal to more mature audiences, the industry devolved into puerile adolescence, the effect of which still lingers today. Shattered Glass: why we need to stop deconstructing our superheroes 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z But he remains at once wickedly puerile and endlessly curious. Andy Griffiths, the Down-Under Kids’ Author Known for His Butt Jokes, Now Builds and Builds on His Hit ‘Treehouse’ Series 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Still, seen through today’s eyes, some of the old Creem content can seem puerile, even offensive. The Wild Story of Creem, Once ‘America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine’ 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z That art encouraged people to remain connected to the part of us that stays pure, a little puerile and always kind. Through Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens reminded Gen X to stay true to our immature inner children 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z This ballet had a puerile side — an expensive game of dress-up. Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Though there’s a louse in our president’s house, You can smile through the nutty raving, The puerile misbehaving. Style Invitational: Do over the do-over — enter any of the year’s contests 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Photograph: Demotix/Corbis Nick Clegg has condemned a series of parties celebrating the death of Lady Thatcher as "puerile" and "childish", and not in keeping with the sombre mood of the nation. Margaret Thatcher death celebrations were puerile, says Nick Clegg 2013-04-11T09:48:13Z Nonetheless, this plot is puerile and unrealistic, with female characters whose strength emanates from the profuse profanity they can spew out in one sentence. Letters to Calendar 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Opinion, as ever, divides on whether it's puerile or inspired, but either way it's an unusual package from someone who gives every impression of having just returned from an extended stay in an ashram. Russell Brand: 'It's irrelevant what other people think of you' 2013-02-03T20:00:01Z Does that sound like a ridiculous, puerile thing for a social media site aimed at grown-ups to have to concern itself with? Twitter’s toxic party: Anything goes, everyone’s invited and the host is too terrified to set down house rules 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Set to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It,” it’s puerile. Lonnae O’Neal: Dear President Boren, thank you for your outrage and action 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z This got us thinking: the Midnight Beast's puerile pop rap is possibly the missing link between Beastie Boys and Busted, and it's obviously along similar lines to that Newport parody of Jay-Z's New York. The Midnight Beast (No 852) 2010-08-20T15:55:00Z Community Outcast could have been another litany of plaints about Britain's underclass, but it's moving not mawkish, and even when he rhymes "mummy" and "tummy" it's poignant, not puerile. New band of the day ? No 841: Devlin 2010-08-05T14:29:00Z Thanks largely to its cast, however, it's transmuted into an utterly puerile 90 minutes that fit the brain-dead zeitgeist of Labor Day weekend in a snug and mostly pain-free manner. "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy:" Gen Y gets its group grope 2011-09-02T01:01:00Z I told myself that I bore no relation to that puerile, self-absorbed dough-face. My online impostor: When that Facebook profile isn’t you 2014-04-01T23:00:00Z Surely it's time there was a gong for novels with titles that are not only strange and unusual, but downright funny in the most sniggersome, puerile manner? Only the smuttiest book title can win the battle of the Wankhs 2010-08-19T10:31:00Z Epic poetry has traditionally held a highbrow status in literary criticism, while action films are regarded as puerile and brutish. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z In this sloppy, puerile mess of a movie, the emotional ages of the former teammates, now in their 40s, are not all that different from that of Mr. Zuckerberg as played by Mr. Eisenberg. Motivators of 2010: Technology and Greed 2010-12-17T19:43:28Z His "art" always struck me as puerile, self aggrandizing, implicitly misogynistic and just plain boring. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z A puerile prologue imagines prehistoric man and woman discovering the parts of their bodies that resemble spheres and hemispheres. Review: In ‘Balls,’ Billie Jean and Bobby Come Out Swinging 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Though the humor is partly rooted in our awareness of how puerile such talk is, a little of it goes a long way. Theater Review: ‘The Performers,’ With Henry Winkler and Cheyenne Jackson 2012-11-15T03:07:21Z Back in the 1990s, when he was consolidating his stardom and working his id in epochal comedies like “Billy Madison” and “The Waterboy,” Mr. Sandler’s puerile aggression had a naughty, anti-authoritarian kick. | 'Jack and Jill': Adam Sandler in ?Jack and Jill? - Review 2011-11-10T23:57:03Z It begins at simple double entendre and ends, far better, somewhere near puerile slapstick. | 'State of Georgia': Conquering the Big City, With an Auntie Mame on Her Side 2011-06-28T22:08:37Z Much of this work was condescended to at the time, or dismissed as puerile navel-gazing. Megan Boyle’s “Liveblog” and the Limits of Autofiction 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z It's a path previously trodden by the Hold Steady, another 30-something bar band transplanted from the midwest to Brooklyn, trying to say grown-up things in a fundamentally puerile idiom. The National ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z Adjectives like “polarizing,” “puerile” and “misogynistic” were often used by detractors to describe his writing. Charlie Finch, Caustic Chronicler of New York’s Art Scene, Dies at 69 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Their puerile humor veers from the locker room to the borscht belt to the kiddie pool. Review: ‘Impractical Jokers’ Is Played for Laughs Live at Radio City 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Even by the standards of listicles, these suggestions are puerile and obvious. 10 Ways to Be a Greener Traveler, Even if You Love to Fly 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z “Amadeus” was widely scrutinized for historical accuracy, and scholars later debunked the portrayal of Mozart as a puerile genius poisoned by Salieri. Peter Shaffer Dies at 90; Playwright Won Tonys for ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z In fact, his puerile eye-for-an-eye scenarios hinder the sort of responsible classification of orders of violence that is called for when revisiting traumatic historical events. Tarantino's gruesome revenge fantasies are growing more puerile and misogynistic | Caspar Salmon 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z It’s a puerile, mean-spirited tendency that altogether spoils the otherwise exquisite imagery. ‘Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko’ Review: Lovely Food, Bad Taste 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Hart has a rather vile history of documented homophobia, ranging from offensive standup clangers to dumb interview statements to puerile tweets to a whole embarrassing film filled with it. Oscars host Kevin Hart's homophobia is no laughing matter | Benjamin Lee 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Back then, the rapper's gigs were usually blighted by puerile skits. V Festival: day one ? review 2011-08-21T17:17:01Z It is his culture now, benighted but triumphant, where puerile amusements can never be questioned and the Simpsons have displaced the gods. Beeple Has Won. Here’s What We’ve Lost. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z It’s hard to not find a sweetness in the puerile. Colin Farrell on Why He'll Never Make a More Unusual Film Than 'The Lobster' 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z I'm also possessed of enough Larkinian self-disgust to have indulged in plenty of puerile sniggering about the body in my fiction. Will Self: modernism and me 2012-08-03T21:55:10Z Some of us are old enough to recall a time when Sandler made movies that were authentically funny, and didn’t merely earn laughs by reminding people of their most puerile instincts. Review: Barrymore can’t save Sandler’s ‘Blended’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z They might also concede that it can be puerile and in the most appalling taste. The Book of Mormon – review 2013-03-21T23:00:02Z As a technician, Eminem hasn’t changed much over the years, but gone is his sense of whimsy, his puerile gift for social rebellion, his underdog thirst. Hip-Hop Changes. Eminem Doesn’t. 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z But I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh at its puerile humour, sometimes out loud. TV review: Trollied; Rick Stein's Spain 2011-08-04T21:00:11Z They cackle a lot, as they find various ways to repackage tales of puerile behaviour as comedy. Jake Hurwitz & Amir Blumenfeld with Streeter Seidell – review 2013-06-27T11:34:00Z But Ben is a restless guy with a puerile sense of humor. A dated ‘Matt & Ben’ is still goofy fun, spoofing buddies Affleck and Damon 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Yes, much of the laughs come from a puerile place, but there’s some genuine heart amid the gags. What to Stream on Valentine’s Day 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Moshfegh’s insistence on focusing on the uneasy, outwardly hostile relationship the characters have with their bodies can at times feel puerile and, other times, it obscures the larger story. Ottessa Moshfegh's short story collection 'Homesick for Another World' wades into the ugliness of people 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z DC Moore's script has its puerile moments, but it's alert to emotional modulations, too. Straight – review 2012-11-28T14:32:59Z Most come off as deeply puerile, jihadist Holden Caulfields, rejecting the banalities of American life and seeking refuge in a system of complete intellectual security. What drives Americans to join the jihad? The book 'United States of Jihad' explains 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Gibney’s debut program was overstuffed and at times puerile; after more than two hours of watching hyper-mobile performers bend and flex, I was more depleted than enlightened. Review: Reimagined Gibney Company Makes a Long-Winded Debut 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z It's all pretty inappropriate really, and puerile, smelly, and ever so slightly shocking. Bouquet of Barbed Wire 2010-09-07T07:00:00Z The film’s eagerness doesn’t obscure the soundness of many of the observations, though an American history timeline is ruined by puerile voice-over. Movie Review: ‘Split: A Deeper Divide,’ Directed by Kelly Nyks‘ 2012-10-12T01:51:34Z The march of time certainly hasn't altered one thing about Hitchens, which is, alas, his unaccountable pleasure in word games of the most puerile variety. The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z Ugly to look at and puerile to listen to, “Mother Schmuckers” makes 70 minutes feel like as many hours. ‘Mother Schmuckers’ Review: Dumber and Dumbest 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z It’s not just the puerile description, but the fact that there is no sign anywhere in his homes or offices that books even exist. Fountainhead of bad ideas: Ayn Rand’s fanboys take the reins of power 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s familiar but uncanny, Botoxed tight but with none of the puerile joy that marked the group’s breakout hits. Queen’s Unearthed Lament, and 6 More New Songs 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Indulge, rather, my views on “Gulliver’s Travels,” which somewhat cleverly converts my great Satire into a gaudy, puerile Toy. | 'Gulliver?s Travels': A Belly Big Enough to Be Seen From the 18th Century 2010-12-23T15:16:46Z Theatre critic Henry Hitchings from London's Evening Standard newspaper said some theatergoers were bound to find the show puerile or offensive. Musical "Book of Mormon" opens in London to mixed reviews 2013-03-22T15:22:47Z I realized, with its 140-character limit, Twitter was a perfect outlet for stupid, ridiculous, puerile, disgusting jokes, with the important added element of surprise. Perspective | Rob Delaney of ‘Catastrophe’ has a way with filthy words, and I’m jealous 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z On “Run the Jewels 4,” the raunchy machismo of their earlier lyricism has flaked off to reveal a less puerile righteousness, and the production is funkier while remaining hard-hitting and densely textured. Run the Jewels Is Rewriting Rap’s Rules 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z It is predictably heavy on the puerile, gross-out gags and teen holiday set-pieces, light on the clever one-liners and unfolding pathos that gave the series such an edge. The Inbetweeners maps male sexuality 2011-08-19T13:30:02Z True, the show was self-indulgent and puerile in places: Jimmy Savile, Brand's impending lawsuits and a long riff on Shetland ponies featured. Russell Brand on Xfm – radio review 2013-03-22T07:00:14Z It was too puerile for publication, you argue? Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z And I hope you agree – that it is puerile, rude, often inappropriate, sometimes plain wrong, and absolutely properly hilarious. TV review: The Great British Bake Off; Accused; Bad Education 2012-08-14T21:29:01Z Platter's line is thick and insistent but wasted on empty scrawls, unremarkable shapes and puerile phrases. Marvelous or maddening? In Cameron Platter's show, it depends on which way you face 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z But the contents are surprisingly puerile and self-aggrandizing. Masterpiece Theater: A Tale of Dueling Art Books for Kids 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Here we run up against the limits of Ms. Ngcobo’s anti-totalizing stance: It simply asks too little of artists, and allows her to pass off the most puerile of projects as an act of resistance. At the Berlin Biennale, the Art of Saying ‘No’ 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z It was very high profile and I just thought it was completely puerile. Mike Leigh Q&A 2011-04-09T23:05:23Z Elsewhere, the Gimps are best when least puerile, as with a plaintive scene about an lonesome vacuum cleaner, or their UV-lit Singin' in the Rain animation sequence. Late Night Gimp Fight ? review 2011-08-12T16:55:02Z The first is a group of puerile men in their mid-20s. Books of The Times: Cruel Stories of Youth: Numb, Violent and Aimless in Japan 2011-02-07T17:18:05Z This may seem a puerile way of thinking, but I’m always asking myself: “What’s the point???” How to become a writer? 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z Expect a very large helping of cheesy one-liners, porcine enemies and puerile humour. 2011 games preview 2011-01-01T00:05:42Z There’s a puerile focus on their body parts: breasts, varicose veins, feet. Wong Ping’s Candy-Colored, Taboo-Smashing World 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z But the record was blighted by lyrics that crossed the line between the forcefully expressed, if often unpalatable ideas of SOC, and puerile, genuinely offensive, controversy for its own sake. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Some of the ethnic lampooning — all groups are fair game — seems puerile. 'Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival' misplays the drama 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “King Richard” makes vivid use of the tapes to convey a White House that seemed to be an unholy combination of the grimly determined and aggressively puerile. ‘King Richard’ Finds Fresh Drama in Watergate 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Dent wrote in 2012 that I'm a Celebrity was a "puerile venture into starvation, televised constipation and animal cruelty" but admitted that "invariably, I do watch". I'm A Celebrity 2023: This year's line-up from Nigel Farage to Nella Rose 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z That makes the former president’s puerile attacks on Engoron a kamikaze mission. Column: Trump's fraud trial strategy may be politically effective. But it's legally disastrous 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z One critic described it as "too ludicrous and puerile to escape censure", while another said it "does no credit to the judgement of the painter". 'Lost demon' uncovered in Joshua Reynolds painting 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Raffish Alice and the other women provide welcome respite from Ben’s puerile petulance. How 'Shortcomings' went from groundbreaking comic to Randall Park's directing debut 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Jonathan Price, on behalf of the broadcaster, said the defendants had published an "enormous amount of puerile, offensive and damaging material" about him, "often under the guise of fundraising for their defence". Chris Packham libel trial: Presenter faced 'relentless intimidation' 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Many will argue that puerile name calling and personal abuse have no place in politics. How nicknames invaded British politics 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z She added that she genuinely regretted "sending what was a puerile and unnecessary response to Mr Huws". Gwynedd councillor's German reply to Welsh email broke rules 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z “MAGA doesn’t vote for stupid people with big mouths,” Trump said, a statement that was not only puerile but self-evidently untrue. Column: He took on Trump and lost Colorado Senate race. But Republican Joe O'Dea kept his dignity 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z "David has many very nice traits," wrote one rather oddly, "but he is a bit whimsical, puerile, and I think probably suffers from having elder sisters." Sir David Butler, pioneering election analyst, dies aged 98 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z It was absurd for C.G.’s school — whose overreaction to his puerile Snapchat post caused more turmoil than his post did— to believe that the post could cause disruption at the school. Opinion | Now we see the wisdom of the high court’s ‘vulgar cheerleader’ ruling 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z "The puerile nature of this leadership contest is embarrassing," he said. Tory leadership: 'Shut up' on twitter top Welsh Conservative tells colleagues 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z And Sirjana correctly spelled puerilely — childish — and radiolarian — a single-celled marine animal having a spherical body with threadlike projections. 3 Seattle-area teens advance to quarterfinals in the Scripps National Spelling Bee 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Musk has also tweeted puerile insults towards Gates on Twitter. Bill Gates on Elon Musk feud and Jeffrey Epstein meetings 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Its ruling criticised Marine Scotland's handling of the case and a "culture of puerile pranks" at the office. Civil servant taped to chair loses £500,000 claim 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z What seemed to be a bit of puerile late-night fun quickly went awry as Edwards dragged an increasing upset Roman, clinging to the blanket and screaming for him to stop, down the hall. Tami Roman swore off reality TV. Until 'The Real World' let her finish what she started 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z How much time and energy do you suppose lawmakers had to divert to his puerile post? Is this Congress or middle school? 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z “Watermelon Man” drew scathing reviews for its haphazard blending of rage and puerile comedy. Melvin Van Peebles, fiercely independent filmmaker, dies at 89 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Trump, on the other hand, when faced with a similarly tough set of circumstances, spins off into a puerile fantasy where one quick fix makes it all go away. Biden asks Americans to act like grown-ups — but Republicans are too addicted to being brats 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z No one would have ever guessed that his over-the-top reverence for the “Conference of Champions” would be prescient rather than puerile. The Pac-12 is the toast of the men’s NCAA tournament. Who besides Bill Walton saw that coming? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Ratchet and refined, puerile and profound, it’s no coincidence that women’s voices are the ones largely redefining rap and poetry these days. The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “Twitter is a lot of haters. Twitter is 1/3 interesting posts, 1/3 tedious, uninteresting, puerile nonsense and 1/3 abject hatred and malice and unpleasantness.” Alec Baldwin quits Twitter — where 'you can't do irony' — after accent joke 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z He continued: "Twitter is one-third interesting posts... one-third tedious, uninteresting, puerile nonsense, and then it's one-third, or more maybe, just abject hatred and malice and unpleasantness." Alec Baldwin deactivates Twitter account over 'switching accents' joke 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Farmers in Palestine, fishermen in Mozambique, and students in Kabul all pay a heavy price for his unprincipled lies and puerile irresponsibility. US poll chaos is a boon for the enemies of democracy the whole world over 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z I predicted this puerile reaction some time ago, which wasn't exactly a great feat of prognostication since Trump was doing everything but running full-page ads in every newspaper in the country announcing his intentions. How many different ways will Trump poison the ground on his way out the door? 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Calling Mr. Macron’s position on the caricatures “puerile,” Mr. Bayart said images are intended to “remind people that they don’t belong here, they are from somewhere else.” The Politics of Terrorism in a Combustible Europe 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Their hope, Sourisseau wrote, is that “no one will any longer be able to dispute their puerile and criminal vanity.” With the Charlie Hebdo trial underway, does ‘Je suis Charlie’ still resonate in France? 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z The Cotton essay was not a tough call, because it was puerile and inflammatory, as well as being deeply offensive. Can the New York Times opinion section heal itself? Yes — it can even lead the way 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z He even boasted about his puerile response on social media. Editorial Roundup: Tennessee 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z It wouldn’t be easy to produce anything more dull and commonplace — awkwardly expressed and slipshod, so loose-jointed, so puerile. Opinion | ‘I believe I am treated worse,’ Trump says. As if. 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Other than the occasionally puerile humor and iffy-for-some jokes and language, this show doesn’t contain anything too upsetting. What to watch with your kids: ‘Absurd Planet,’ ‘The Half of It’ and more 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z There is no point talking to Trump, because he will not change; every seemingly sober presidential moment – cheered by centrist observers – is followed by 10 puerile performances of ranting and raving. There is no point talking to Trump. We need to talk past him | Jan Werner-Muller 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z On questions of tone, it means knowing that sneering invective is ultimately puerile and unappealing, no matter who the target may be. Opinion | Trump without the Trumpiness would win reelection in a landslide 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z This is all about impeachment, to which he has responded — predictably — with a puerile rage. Opinion | How Low Will Trump Go? 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z There is Trump’s puerile obsession with “toughness,” of course, but beyond that, there is his use of the word “captured.” America is being held hostage by a bloody madman — and he’s in the White House 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z They’re asking patrons not to wear their guns into the store in places that allow such puerile nonsense. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z His tone alternates between earnest and puerile, depending on the target. The Undercover Fascist 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Trump tries to do jokes but they’re not really jokes, they’re at best puerile and at worst, deeply offensive attacks on defenceless people. No laughing matter? What Ukraine's joker-in-chief says about politics today 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z He's not just venting before the world on his puerile Twitter feed. Could Don McGahn lead a Trump exodus? Republican lawyers may be ready to jump off sinking ship 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The police declined to comment on this aspect of the investigation, but Teltumbde called it “puerile” to suggest guilt by association. He is a prominent anti-Modi intellectual. The Indian government wants him behind bars. 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Much has been written about the so-called “adults in the room” who have supposedly restrained Trump’s worst instincts and puerile tantrums – or did so, at least, until they were fired. Donald Trump and his ship of fools are courting calamity in Venezuela | Simon Tisdall 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z President Trump issued the most puerile response, naturally: What divides us: The wall isn't about "security." It's about competing visions of America 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Contrast that with the puerile populist agenda Carlson espouses: reduce the sales tax; make a third DUI offense a felony; end freeway toll lanes; no heroin injection sites. Republicans must return to true roots 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Marvel’s sketches for the film were less puerile but wholly impressionistic, and so Carter began her customary deep dive. In ‘Black Panther,’ Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Found a Career-Defining Challenge 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Trump didn't allow this carnage to stop him from carrying on his campaign schedule, holding rallies and tweeting his usual puerile nonsense even as bombs were still being recovered and bodies were unidentified. Darkness falls in America: After a week of horror, Trump refuses to admit any responsibility 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z And why it’s good might be illuminating: It relies on nothing but Sandler’s absurdist observations, and puerile humor distilled in short parody songs that can’t help but worm their way into your head. Analysis | Wait, did Adam Sandler just make something good? 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Her ancestry test followed his incessant mocking of her as “Pocahontas,” a schoolyard gibe from a puerile mind. Opinion | Donald Trump’s Perverse Advantage 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z On the surface, the story of Celine centered on the brand’s transformation under a new male designer from sophisticated, thoughtful restraint to louche, puerile ostentation. Review | Wanted: Fashion designers who truly respect women. Now more than ever. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z And in Shapiro's case, there's also a blatant and shameless effort to leverage her fame and success to promote his own brand of irreverent and puerile conservatism. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez perfectly shuts down Ben Shapiro’s pesky challenge to debate 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Is her point that straight white men are superficial creatures, bound by codes of behavior that make them stupid and puerile? The Soullessness of “Straight White Men” 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Or the president’s puerile threat to take security clearances away from former Obama administration officials? Editorials from around New England 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Or maybe it is, as it so often is with Trump, the most puerile answer: He is affronted by the suggestion that he won his election illegitimately. Opinion | Trump, Having a Bawl in Europe 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Morgan called it “a pathetically puerile stunt that makes Britain look woefully petty, small-minded and gratuitously offensive.” Donald Trump welcomed by some in U.K. amid Brexit jitters 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees,” he said to a “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant — another of the puerile, creepy insinuations that he has in place of actual information. Opinion | The disgusting ‘normal’ under Trump 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Calling him the "definer in chief" is a nice way to say that he comes up with puerile insults that his followers adore and repeat like parrots. Trump debuts his midterm campaign persona: Character assassin in chief 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Wandering aimlessly in the well-worn corridors of 1980s puerile frat flicks, “Life of the Party” wobbles to a predictable end and then sort of finishes without a bang. Review: Melissa McCarthy can’t save flat ‘Life of the Party’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The search engine on the firm’s website started offering customers puerile responses to their inquiries. A startup in Paris is scaling up unusually fast 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The early story line about President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron focused on their “bromance” and Trump’s puerile claim to dominance when he brushed what he said was dandruff off Macron’s suit. Opinion | Macron treats Congress to a full-scale takedown of Trumpism 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z These spaces are puerile, yet they normalise violent misogyny and have the potential to radicalise socially isolated or vulnerable men. If incels’ violent misogyny had a role in Toronto, we mustn’t downplay it | Emer O’Toole 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The man nicknamed “Pharma Bro” for his audacity over drug pricing and puerile public displays of arrogance was sentenced last month to seven years in prison for securities fraud. 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli moved to low-security federal prison in New Jersey 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Voters may say they find Trump puerile and repellent while in private enjoying that he is as petty as they are and hits back at those who long ago needed a smack. Opinion | Democrats Are Primed for 2018 and Looking Pretty in 2020 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Llosa is a mediocre novelist, a puerile thinker and a disaster as a politician; if he had ever gained any power in Peru, the country would have wound up in Venezuelan poverty and chaos. The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature — and a Writer of Our Moment 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z We don’t want a president who flips the ordinary equation, out of some puerile sense of grievance, to honor Russia and dishonor the F.B.I. Opinion | Trump Shows Us the Way 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Raging then as we are raging now, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison responded, “Can anything be more puerile, absurd, illogical, impertinent, untimely?” Opinion | The Heartbeat of Racism Is Denial 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Trump’s tweet Tuesday was highly unusual for its open reference to the vast U.S. nuclear arsenal at Trump’s disposal and its playground allusion — critics said puerile — to the size and power of Trump’s warfighting abilities. White House dismisses criticism of Trump’s North Korea ‘Nuclear Button’ tweet 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The Washington Post has had several massive and important scoops this year on federal science funding, but like most science writers, I retain a love for the more puerile end of things. Our favorite science stories this year (that we didn’t write) 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z The dynamic in the capital grows ever more dangerous, as President Donald Trump tells fables to justify the unjustifiable and his staff feeds him more fables in a futile attempt to manage his puerile moods. Slaying monsters with our words 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The dynamic in the capital grows ever more dangerous, as Donald Trump tells fables to justify the unjustifiable and his staff feeds him more fables in a futile attempt to manage his puerile moods. Opinion | Bringing Down Our Monsters 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z My choice is not rooted in selfishness as I once thought, nor a fear of losing my figure, or a puerile attachment to a contrarian view. Childless in a Houseful of Children 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z An ongoing theme in Paglen’s more satirical work is the puerile machismo of military culture’s symbology and nomenclature, ‘‘the collective unconscious of this world of secrecy and violence,’’ as he puts it. Art for a Post-Surveillance Age 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The movies themselves — and this includes “Only Living Boy” — often feature a third act twist and are often either indifferent to women or treat them in a manner that can come across as puerile. 'Only Living Boy in New York': Privileged men, one-dimensional women and way too many visions of Johanna 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Progressives rage against this platform as a receptacle of puerile yet threatening outpourings, first and foremost by Trump himself. US history is a Pandora's box. There has never been a better moment to open it | Yuliya Komska 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z In the meantime, the GOP leadership is dealing with the avalanche of criticism they’re receiving the way their puerile president has taught them. GOP sneak attack on health care nears a critical moment — and it’s a total monstrosity 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z That hostility often found expression in the most puerile ways possible. Bill O’Reilly’s grand merde: The Fox News host’s ludicrous “boycott” of France became the model for a career built on lies 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Of course, even putting aside old-fashioned notions like solidarity and basic decency, as policy such sentiments are puerile nonsense. Trumpcare is dead. May it forever stay in its shallow grave | Adam Gaffney 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Trump’s comments and tweets aren’t just puerile insults but also false claims and made-up accusations. Expect executive-branch gridlock 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z These are just a few examples of the puerile, crude and vicious personal attacks deployed by Donald Trump against his Republican rivals. Cowardly lions on parade: One after the other, anti-Trump Republicans have fallen in line behind the Great Leader 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Mr Watson said the unpaid volunteer's actions were "racist and puerile". Footballer turned South Yorkshire Police Officer sacked for drug use - BBC News 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Armstrong described the action in Venice as “a homecoming parade, or Halloween—a bunch of puerile theatre.” The Gulf Art War 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z To Justin Trudeau, Canada’s puerile prime minister, he was a “legendary revolutionary” who “made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.” Fidel’s Legacy—A Dissident’s View 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s about the fun of being naughty, the kind of puerile fun little bullies have. Stop calling them the alt-right: Conservative trolls deserve a name that fits (and it’s not Nazi) 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z These shareable, sometimes pithy and often puerile units of culture have emerged as the lingua franca of the 2016 election, and have given the American people an entirely new way of articulating their beliefs. Meme warfare: how the power of mass replication has poisoned the US election 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z A good game for fans of puerile humor. Oakland Raiders' progress hidden behind a blizzard of flags 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Requiring everyone to stand and put their right hand over their heart while the national anthem is playing is puerile. Liberty and Mercury Players Join Anthem Protest Before Playoff Game 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, Lanier’s expressed concern about the justice system led to a war of words among city officials that descended to the puerile. Where is the outrage? 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The answer was childish and flippant, and wholly characteristic of the steady stream of puerile insults, half-truths, untruths and innuendo that make up much of Mr. Trump’s campaign. Memorial Day lessons 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Glossing over the pain hurts all women and perpetuates the puerile nonsense that "boys will be boys". Kenneth Starr, Who Tried to Bury Bill Clinton, Now Only Praises Him 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z My wife, who’s German, puts it in the category of “so puerile you laugh.” Merkel’s Road to Moral Surrender 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z And there’s even less chance that it will approach the puerile bottom-feeding of the Republican contest. In the New York Primary, Democrats Should Stick to Issues 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Kristof’s “shame” arises out of his disapproval of Trump: “All in all, I’ve never met a national politician in the U.S. who is so ill informed, evasive, puerile and deceptive as Trump.” Sources Inside My Head 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The top women in tennis still earn less than their male counterparts, are subjected to widespread objectification and personal vitriol and, more often than not, reduced to puerile commentary on their grunting during a serve. Tennis official's sexist rant re-opens conversation about disparity 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The honorees’ compelling and inspirational stories put to shame, by comparison, the puerile behavior of the top Republicans seeking to occupy the world’s most powerful office. Women are getting things done while our male GOP leaders continue to bluster 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Apparently, he didn’t want to attack Trump, so he attributed Trump’s puerile nonsense to Hillary Clinton. It would be a neat trick if it made any sense at all. A truly bone-chilling GOP debate: Why the most sedate one yet was also the scariest 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The race for the Republican presidential nomination couldn’t possibly get any more bizarre, appalling, puerile, embarrassing, self-destructive or — The GOP race has become an embarrassing reality-television show 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z It is possible that Trump’s balloon may have lost air Saturday night because his puerile petulance reached new levels of infancy. Donald Trump: Truth Teller? 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z This seems mystifying, and frustrating, to the GOP’s base, and cause for the most puerile sort of attacks. How Donald Trump Lost—and Won 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, who devised the story, is dazzled by period style and puerile jokes, but nothing lands as especially funny, merely tired. 'Moonwalkers' is a tired British comedy 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z But the article also takes a puerile and uncritical stance regarding El Chapo’s criminality and violence, allowing the drug lord to portray himself as a businessman who doesn’t look for trouble, who only defends himself. El Chapo, Episode III: The Farce Awakens 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It also includes “absquatulate,” ”anathema,” ”epigone,” ”puerile,” ”rumpus,” ”sockdolager,” ”sybaritic,” ”torpid” and “turpitude.” School’s list seeks to bring worthy words back from brink 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Some conservatives openly defy any restriction on their God-given right to be puerile jerks: Welcome to the GOP’s age of rage: Shocking new study shows how anger is fueling the Republican Party 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z In addition, some critics were unconvinced about the Curve's avant-garde architecture and branded its first major home-grown production "puerile". The Curve, Leicester: The 'expensive disaster' that came back - BBC News 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z In the 30-year interim, the tenor of adult cartoons had shifted dramatically: The Simpsons was more caustic and puerile than The Flintstones, a shameless Stone Age remake of hit 1950s sitcom The Honeymooners. How an episode of The Simpsons is made 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z It’s not just his frequent insults and puerile doxxing that demonstrate his unseriousness; it’s first and foremost his intolerably silly policy positions. Bobby Jindal out-Trumps Donald Trump 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Maybe then I'm experiencing Stockholm syndrome, but the more I play the game, the more I believe Metal Gear Solid V is as elegant and inspired as it is tawdry, puerile, and ignorant. I would hate Metal Gear Solid V were it anything but a video game 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z You might expect that sort of puerile move from the owner of an unmuffled ’95 Mustang, but from one of the world’s largest auto manufacturers? How Urine Could Have Kept Volkswagen’s Nose Clean 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Not everybody was impressed with the show, which Mr Letts described as "puerile and blasphemous" - epithets that the Curve put on its posters for the show. The Curve, Leicester: The 'expensive disaster' that came back - BBC News 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z We think of Giants coach Tom Coughlin as a man perpetually aggrieved and consider Buffalo Bills coach Rex Ryan a puerile teenager—after all, that’s how they behave in our homes. The Comprehensive Illusion of Football 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The Daily Express's editorial says not singing the national anthem was "puerile, dogmatic, anti-British posturing". Newspaper headlines: Anthem furore dominates press - BBC News 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z "We don't need to reduce our politics to a puerile level." Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn 'not bothered' by rivals' criticism - BBC News 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Line to line, gag to gag, Wet Hot American Summer was an idiotic, puerile, completely brilliant attempt to dismantle the entire grammar of popular storytelling. Review: Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z "There were tears of mirth, toilet humour and mild incontinence," Michael Hogan continued, saying the show was "huge fun, if typically puerile." Top Gear farewell episode leaves critics divided - BBC News 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z There is an argument too that some of today's outrages are actually puerile stuff compared to the epic carousing of the past. Have stars lost touch with reality? 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Instead, many of them seem to be motivated by an insular, careerist, petty, and somewhat puerile feedback loop. Hillary Clinton’s toughest adversary: The world-historic narcissism of the political press 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z To claim that ours is somehow more puerile than any other, or that our interests are less worthy, is the height of narcissism – childish, even. Have our cultural tastes become too childish? 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Pamela Geller’s perennial crusade to offend American Muslims was the target of bloodshed last weekend, when two shooters attacked her puerile “art contest” in Garland, TX. The GOP’s paranoid right-wing renaissance: What Pam Geller’s anti-Islam fear mongering says about American politics 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z "Fittingly, in the end the most puerile man on TV destroyed his own programme." Top Gear farewell episode leaves critics divided - BBC News 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z The very idea of Weiner’s writing being described as “infantile… puerile… and cliché” is downright impossible to believe — but it happened. A Conversation With Gillian Zoe Segal, Author Of 'Getting There: A Book of Mentors' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z They reject the puerile logic of honor codes and status rivalries, and enter a more civilized logic that doesn’t turn us into our enemies. Stepping above the din, focusing on the big picture 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z He was on the hill to eradicate your opportunity, to squash the puerile idea that the sun would come out tomorrow. Baseball Hall of Famers and What They Taught Me 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z But it is similarly too late for the Labour leader to change a reputation won by four years of puerile left-wing posturing. Mightily different 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z At a certain point, the line between purism and puerile disappears. El Capitan’s Dawn Wall Climbers Reach Summit at Yosemite 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z This desire to lash out is such a knee jerk puerile response. One Billion Reasons Why You Need To Focus On Security Defence 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z This exchange is so puerile that it is not worth quoting - suffice to say it was all about showing him movies that focused on black characters. A comedy of terrors - in four acts 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The speech in question, from petitioner Anthony Douglas Elonis’s Facebook page, ranges from puerile to despicable, and it includes descriptions of the hypothetical murder of his estranged wife. Facebook doesn’t transform free speech into a lesser right And the people, well, puerile doesn't begin to describe the average voter's understanding of what we've wrought. Historical Lessons for a President Forced to Deal With a Hostile Congress 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z I gladly pay her monthly tab, which tends to include a few different t-shirts, and stare bemused at the crafts and ugly neon-tank tops emblazoned with puerile slogans. Greek Letters at a Price 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z It is puerile, politically incorrect and not for the squeamish. When did male body hair become a bad thing? 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z It seems that our common culture is hurtling inevitably toward the puerile and sensationalistic; I just wish The Post were less complicit. Worsening the conversation “Adventurer,” by contrast, implies a self-indulgent adrenaline junkie, who scares loved ones by courting puerile risk. The Woman Who Walked 10,000 Miles (No Exaggeration) in Three Years 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z "I find that Tindafella Tumbler at best mildly amusing and at worst just another in a long line of puerile internet rubbish that ridicules women" says Mary Berry of the women's blog Knockback. Mocking women on Tinder 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Over the years, however, that outsider instinct has also led to some puerile behavior. Mitch McConnell Is Headed Down the Stretch 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z On the ropes, he showed that, to the anti-equality crowd, pink marriages are merely a red herring to engage in the puerile pastime Americans have long used to shame each other about sex. The dirty little secret inside the fight for gay marriage: moralists want to own the sex lives of straight people, too 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z It’s a poor signpost to what’s important about big data, and carries borderline puerile overtones of boastfulness. Defining Big Data 2014-05-07T16:32:00Z While the track isn’t necessarily unpleasant, it’s largely bland, rendering much of the sound puerile and unfledged. REVIEW: Architecture in Helsinki Makes No BFFs with Album NOW + 4EVA 2014-04-01T19:44:30Z Cue guffaws and a bonanza of toilet humour and puerile puntastic headlines in the world's media, from "" to "" to "". Where should you put your wisdom? 2013-08-13T05:59:00Z The state-controlled Herald newspaper has denounced the mole's "malicious motives and puerile endeavour", and Mugabe has reportedly offered a six-figure sum for his identity. Zimbabwe blogger takes on Robert Mugabe 2013-07-25T10:30:33Z Reducing strong, successful athletes to children lost without their family units is itself a puerile act. Straight Sets: In Question to Serena Williams, a Hint of Sexism 2013-07-01T20:29:29Z And as for the jokes - from the witty to the puerile - Viagra was the drug that kept on giving. Room for growth: Viagra patent ends 2013-06-22T03:18:27Z Who needs puerile barbs from an opposition coach? Northampton's Dylan Hartley out to stop the rot against Saracens 2013-05-10T20:59:01Z In China, there is, but it’s almost nothing like the ruthless, Swiftian take-no-prisoners definition, unlike you count Taiwan’s Next Media Animation, which is often pretty puerile. IHT Rendezvous: Satirizing China with the ‘China Daily Show’ 2013-04-25T06:22:18Z Actually, the seminal stunt of his hacking career is much more puerile but nonetheless humorous. Kevin Mitnick: The Hacking Hamburglar 2013-04-11T13:32:03Z The desire for a personal telephone call from Barack Obama would be puerile if the potential fallout – literal and figurative – were not so deadly. Korea is the focus, but this is China versus Japan 2013-04-10T19:30:01Z Dialog is embarrassingly puerile, and couldn’t be more full of gung-ho machismo tripe if it tried. Surveying the Aftermath of the Brutal Aliens: Colonial Marines Reviews 2013-02-12T13:50:25Z The Te’o saga is just the weirdest version of a story that gets played out again and again, because of our culture’s puerile obsession with athletes as role models. Lance Armstrong and Manti Te’o: Too feel-good to be true 2013-01-17T19:34:00Z It might have seemed “righteous” indignation when the GOP was deluding itself about representing a majority of Americans; now, it just seem puerile and petulant. Joe Klein: GOP Needs Ideas, Not Outrage, on Fiscal Cliff 2012-11-30T18:20:24Z So many of the attacks, then and now, are the puerile work of fantasists - that he was born in Kenya, is a communist revolutionary, or secretly a convert to Islam. Obama not a natural in the saddle 2012-11-08T00:31:37Z “I think this cycle is becoming interesting because it’s becoming puerile and infantile with this parsing of little statements, while we ignore $16 trillion of debt and unemployment,” Mr. Tyler said. G.O.P.’s Beleaguered Akin Draws Ire Over ‘Fetch’ Comment 2012-10-22T05:30:02Z It is remarkable and, frankly, a bit terrifying that this puerile vision has become the operating philosophy of the Republican Party. A Campaign of Ideas -- Paul Ryan's Ideas 2012-08-16T13:35:27Z Yet hearing the various exchanges dissected in these surroundings brought home just how trashy and puerile it all was. John Terry is cleared, but football's reputation takes a battering 2012-07-13T13:25:23Z While the Dutch remain masters at puerile wrangling among themselves, often becoming a parody of their own reputation, Les Blues somewhat reflect their homeland's historic thread of rebelling in the face of authoritarian governance. Goal: Could a Falling Out Bring France Together? 2012-06-23T06:25:25Z Some of it just puerile, but some is graphic and threatening. Sexual harassment in the world of video gaming 2012-06-03T23:12:00Z Some people, quite reasonably, might observe that my dissent is a bit puerile. A Point of View: I'm not toasting [insert head-of-state here] 2012-05-25T16:40:18Z Nor is the Puranic version of the Legend of the Deluge to be despised, though it be of recent date and full of fantastic and often puerile details. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z But however puerile it may be in its forms of worship, yet as a religion Buddhism is an immeasurable advance on 305 Brahminism. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z We may laugh at the puerile simplicity of their theatre, but let us laugh reverently, since we find in their literary infancy the germ, the strength, the character of the manhood of the great century. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The very amusements of the scholars took the form of a whimsical and puerile pedantry. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z It was surely a puerile ambition in Mr. Addington to succeed Mr. Pitt as prime minister. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z Besides, where shall we now find a nation, a mob even, ignorant enough not to be aware that they are only expressive of pontifical caprice or spleen, or a puerile regret for some foolish prerogative? The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z Yet he who endeavors to interpret an Indian allegory through all its erratic windings and puerile inconsistencies, has undertaken no enviable task. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Nothing was too ridiculous or puerile for him to stoop to, and he was, as a class, so entirely innocent and unsophisticated that the land-sharks waiting hungrily for homeward-bound ships found him an easy prey. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z From the vicinity of the stables and outhouses men and lads gathered, and stood a silent group, attentive to our attempts at Spanish conversation, which attempts, it must be admitted, were puerile. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z She was free, indeed, from that puerile superstition "That God's fixed will from nature's wanderings learns." Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z She began to read these with acute misgivings, and, sure enough, they were permeated by a spirit of anti-Semitism as puerile as it was heartless. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z "Oh," sighed Nancy, looking at him and clasping puerile hands, "your beauty aches me!" The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Prize-fights disgust, shell races are puerile, football matches smack of obituaries. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z This ignorance of the world—this lofty or puerile feeling, whichever it may be termed, was in Beethoven only transitory, and he soon recovered his manly tone of mind. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z Their understandings were constantly occupied with puerile disputes on mysterious subtleties, unworthy of rational beings. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z Its puerile lack of originality was characteristic of the man. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z How wrong to overweight the puerile brain with the giants of classic composition! The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Valcke later said he was surprised by Brazil's reaction to his criticism, calling it "puerile." Brazil spat with FIFA brings uncertainty over WCup 2012-03-04T17:46:11Z The charges against him were of the most puerile kind, and not the slightest proof of their truth was offered. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z The charge of shooting at stars is puerile. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z He especially disclaims such puerile schemes in the passionate moment when he has realized how futile all his lifelong efforts have been. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Libraries have been printed on subjects not worth discussing—not worth thinking about—and that will, in a few years, be regarded as puerile by the whole world. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z The laws contained in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy are for the most part puerile and cruel. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z On the other hand theology is, always has been, and always will be, ignorant, arrogant, puerile and cruel. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z Previous to this event Scotland possessed only a rough, tumultuous physical life; her politics—dissensions and executions; her religion—a puerile superstition;—her literature—ballads and monkish legends; her joy—hunting, fighting, and drinking! The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Such a God would be a puerile, short-sighted being, that only ignorant and uncultivated minds could admire and adore. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Besides, Wakefield is so very egotistical, and at times so very puerile, that he is too much for most people. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-16T03:00:07.530Z If you don't like this "nolueris" and "debueris," because it is the trick of Isocrates, and altogether nonsensical and puerile, I don't waste my time on the matter.' The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z If such things would appear puerile and foolish in the President of a great republic, what shall be said when they were resorted to by the creator of all worlds? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z The power of his discernment and discrimination may be seen from the manner in which he points out what there is defective, puerile, and unintelligible amongst us. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z He was considered brash, intemperate, intense and puerile — and more, the sort of guy you made fun of. The Passion of Rick Santorum: Faith, Populism and His Path After Iowa 2012-01-05T17:05:34Z The other is popular Buddhism, which sinks and dies into puerile superstitions and into the grossest polytheism. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z He had looked forward to this ball with puerile anticipations of delirious and unknown pleasures, for he had never been present at any of these high festivals of wealth and fashion. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z But the puerile ideas of the lines acquired in their mouths an undue importance. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Your estimate of ———— curiously coincides with many I have heard; his objection to discuss theology is puerile indeed. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z The device of the tax to take her there at the time is weak and puerile, and proves that those who got it up were neither wise nor learned. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z This is a sublime and bold conception; and far excels the puerile prating about ghosts, angels, dreams, and shadows. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z He was easily impressed and as easily led, and still very puerile. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z This would be as puerile a scruple as counting one’s steps when walking. Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears 2011-12-22T03:00:27.660Z Cruikshank gained nothing by seeking laurels in the field of literature except the impression on paper of a weakness one prefers to call juvenile rather than puerile. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z Is it rational to-suppose that all the pain, sorrow, and evil in the world have been caused by the puerile circumstance of a woman eating an apple? Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z MOD.—It must be allowed that the Bible cosmogony and its stories about deity, origin of man, etc., appear puerile, contradictory, and irrational, unless they can be resolved into planetary allegories. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z I could relate an infinity of such adventures, in all of which we risked our lives on some puerile point of honour, or in pursuit of some impertinence which called for castigation. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z There is a good deal of slovenly writing, and it is puerile to write modern history from printed books; but this is a wonderfully solid performance. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z A fellow who continues it is thought puerile, if nothing worse. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z I was in a reckless mood, and some puerile impulse prompted me to astonish him. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z If such things would appear puerile and foolish in the president of a great republic, what shall be said when they were resorted to by the creator of all worlds? Mistakes of Moses 2011-11-24T03:00:39.887Z The man is a charlatan from top to bottom, and the smallest kind of a charlatan,—for no other motive than a weak and puerile vanity. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The notions entertained by educated professional Frenchmen, and even by Hollanders and Germans, about our grammar and idiom were from the outset down nearly to the present century of the vaguest and most puerile character. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z I forgot my promise to Caroline's mother, or encouraged myself to look upon it as a mere puerile engagement to humour a woman's whim, and lit the cigar. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z The words were useless and puerile; but my indignation demanded some outlet. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z In abnormal states of physical development, men are puerile or womanish. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z After Hume such a publication is quite puerile! The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z We must not condemn the popular scrupulousness of 1789 as puerile and foolish, until we too have perilled life and fortune in the cause of liberty and equality. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z The account of the Emperor's last days at Fontainebleau, is pronounced a tragi-comedy, full of grimaces, of explosions, of puerile hesitations, of impossible exaggerations. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z Seen and known close at hand, he is always called “puerile throughout life.” Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z In his quaint English he explained, giving several reasons that seemed puerile. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z As to its being puerile to write on such a subject after David Hume, I by no means think that he has exhausted the subject. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z He was also irritated that he had allowed himself to indulge in what he realized must have appeared a puerile threat. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z These puerile rites, purely the invention of females, are intended to act as charms for securing the love and affection of the husband for his wife. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z And what would this attitude of puerile bravado have proved? The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z The whole affair seems to us so puerile that we can hardly understand the importance attached to it by the actors themselves. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z Think only how many great men’s labours we should decree to be puerile if we were to hold everything puerile that has been written on this subject since the days of Hume! The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z The epithet his agent had applied to Brooke carried with it the stigma of puerile folly in that country, and Devine had usually very little sympathy with the men it could be fittingly attached to. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z The manner in which they display their profound learning is alike puerile and ludicrous. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z There is much fine description in the first account of the wizard; but the lyrical dialogue of the spirits is rather puerile, and is ridiculed, with great severity, in the "Rehearsal." Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z I know that I risk my life, and that perhaps in the future we may be accused of presumption, of folly, of puerile enthusiasm. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z She feared being suspected of a mere puerile effort, to frighten from Harleigh an offer of his hand, in menacing what she had not courage, nor, perhaps, even intention to perform. The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z Is it not time, even yet, to have done with the puerile trammels of prejudice?—Yes! The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z The character of the Hindoo deities is more or less puerile, impure and ungodly, not possessing any of the cardinal virtues, such as become the living and true God. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Whereas the former exemplifies a puerile, and necessarily inferior, form of art, the latter is susceptible of serving the noblest ends. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z You must banish your puerile fears, otherwise he will vegetate like a good-for-nothing in rags and misery, where you are, instead of being like me. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z During the intervals, the courtiers were charged with certain puerile occupations. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z But, alack! a puerile incident speedily recalls the poor prisoner to reality. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Aimless searchlights, pale and puerile, move irregularly over the sky. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z They saw then how puerile were the human sciences of which they had heard. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z His puerile fancy had ruined him, and he was reduced to living in a garret. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z It’s senseless, this business of fighting—a puerile defiance of the laws of life.” The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z When one is in one’s teens forty appears senility; when one approaches forty it wears quite another aspect,—a comfortably matured, youthful aspect compared with which the teens are puerile. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z It was true, but it sounded too puerile and childish. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z A mysterious enemy began to vex the little detachment of San Juan with the puerile attacks. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Although so highly appreciated by the primitive Christians, there are few among the moderns who would not find his vagaries puerile and unreadable. Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels 2011-08-30T02:00:32.823Z Putting bouquets in all the rooms, cleaning my aviary, talking to the puppies, and reading Jocelyn under the limes in the shrubberies—all very puerile, but all very pleasant. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z It would be downright puerile to lack the courage to watch the beating of the living heart of a dead tortoise! The Pros and Cons of Vivisection 2011-08-23T02:00:31.033Z Let not the reader smile at this seemingly puerile demonstration, or underrate its importance. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z And he knew that with the puerile, nasal voice of the wire the heralding had begun. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Now and then his whims were simply puerile; it was so when he signalised some triumph over a Continental potentate by a dolls’ battle on the Thames. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z Such a puerile, spiteful comment on the front of the Sports page, and a picture of Hope Solo only, as if she alone lost the game! What sports readers are saying 2011-07-23T23:16:04Z It has become a mere object of luxury and connoisseurship, or virt�: unless it be addressed to our personal vanity, or to the puerile taste for ornament, show, furniture,—it is nothing. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z This is not a time to indulge in puerile levity! The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z Likewise to explain that there were no brows, that the lashes were gone, that, of course, his whole face was hairless—this is prattle, mere childish, puerile prattle. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Besides, satire depends upon comic exaggeration, while the deepening scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's News International Corp. has far surpassed my puerile imaginings. Finally, Rupert Murdoch gets his due 2011-07-14T01:01:00Z Rid thyself of all exploded and worn out doctrines--cast off the whole puerile tissue of phantasms and visions of crude ages, which thou callest Revelation! King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z The idea is too puerile even for discussion.” The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z He was, says Mr. Archer, “so strong and so weak, so manly and so puerile, so poetic and so commonplace, so careful and so slovenly.” The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z His dark eyes lightened and hardened to an unforgiving grimness of wrath that dwarfed the younger men's passion and made it puerile. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z With no more provocation than a sting of puerile pique, she had lost her temper, and all her efforts to retrieve it seemed unavailing. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z Exposed to the unchecked rapacity of the chiefs, the unhappy people were always in danger of death, or confiscation of their property upon some puerile pretext. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z These narrations, given as the result of Mr. Leadbeater's and Mrs. Besant's visions, are for the most part grotesquely puerile, and could convince no serious occultist. H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal 2011-06-12T02:00:09.327Z They, indeed, came from the elder Pliny, to whose puerile wonders and hasty compilation we owe the foundation of our natural history. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z But were not these scruples effeminate and puerile? Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z The business as a whole seemed so stupid, so puerile, so hopelessly inconsequential. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z The puerile utopia of the school of art-for-art, in excluding morality, and often even passion, was necessarily sterile. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Much that emanates from this tainted source is so fantastic and puerile that ridicule ought long since to have killed it, as it did Oscar Wilde's æsthetic movement. H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal 2011-06-12T02:00:09.327Z The origin of those puerile tales which the Europeans brought home with them has not been traced. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It is because law, logic, science, philosophy, have been so almost exclusively in the hands of men, that they have accomplished such puerile results. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z He had expressed his grief, his remorse, his shame; he did not brood over them or distress me with puerile because unavailing regrets over a past he could not recall. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z As the fire smouldered, thus did the boy's eyes smoulder, while he watched audaciously and fixedly; for deep down in his warped, puerile soul the curtained joy of revenge was a-sputter. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Seventeen collectively declared against the institution of a Committee, which, they said, would create a dictatorship, and others pleaded the same motive, which was puerile enough. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The Druids, like some other institutions of antiquity, by not perpetuating their doctrines, or their secrets, in this primeval state of theology and philosophy, by writing, have effectually concealed their own puerile simplicity. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z They may show talent in special directions, but their intelligence rarely passes out of the puerile stage. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Labor has been entreated to throw him over as a puerile leader and capital has been warned that he is a dangerous man because of his surpassing ability. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z That look of dull puerile doubt vanished instantly as the realization dawned upon him that his brother was now about to honor him with a man's commission. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z The Central Committee at the same time placarded a similar appeal—a puerile but generous illusion; and on this point the people of Paris entirely agreed with their mandatories. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The project was secretly planned between our puerile hero and the adventurous Drake, and was only frustrated by the queen’s arrest of our hero at Plymouth. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Politics should be about debating the real issues affecting our society, not throwing around puerile insults. Tory's 'offensive' Facebook slur 2011-04-28T12:53:34Z And I could not help wishing that Earl de Grey, to whom the estate belongs, would abolish the puerile theatrical trick called The Surprise. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z It is puerile to fear that independence may come through them. The Philippines A Century Hence 2011-04-20T02:00:25.047Z They remained silent, contenting themselves with puerile party meetings, from which Delescluze turned away as heart-broken as from the Assembly of the Paris mayors. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z And this was the origin of his puerile romance! Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Was it not all ridiculous, senseless, and puerile? Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z Words were out of place; they would have been puerile, disturbing sounds, a mockery instead of an agency to convey an idea of the strength of his emotions. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z 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 He felt that a time would come when he and the Spanish soldier would once more stand face to face, and that to let his vindictive passions run riot in the meanwhile would be puerile. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z He shrugged his shoulders, waved his white hand, lifted his eyebrows and smiled, obviously excusing himself to himself for his participation in anything so puerile; and then opened it slowly. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z If they were recalcitrant, the love of God must be driven into them by their being whipped or shut up in a cupboard, or docked of some little puerile pleasure. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z To put it forth as a defence in a case like that of the Baltic Fleet affairs seems to me too puerile. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z So absorbing that one has the puerile itch to look at the end.... The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z He has thrown on common images new lights of fancy; he has struck out the finest ideas from ordinary sentiments, and expunged all puerile conceits and absurdities. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The history of fiction is continually efficacious in discussions of this kind, and the identities of puerile sayings frequently answer a similar purpose. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z The charm of his mind lies in its divagations, its inconsistencies, its puerile and lovable self-revelations, and all these are encouraged by the wandering style common to the author and to his biographer. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The subjects taught are for the most part puerile, and true science is replaced by the dry moral precepts of Confucius. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z And again on February 5, 1846, "as to preventing persons assuming particular titles, nothing can be more absurd and puerile, than to keep up such a distinction." Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy 2011-03-25T02:00:12.637Z One is vexed, that the conclusion of this splendid production should be so puerile. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The operation of counting-out is a very important mystery in many puerile games. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z It seems as if the hand which was stiff and somewhat puerile in Hardyknute, had acquired freedom and breadth of style in Sir Patrick Spence. The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship 2011-03-20T02:00:33.903Z Here, in the sanctuary of Calvinism, organs are everywhere introduced—though the more orthodox, or puerile, discipline of Scotland has rejected their intrusion. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z If Bellamy's latest recruits do not already realise that sectarianism is utterly futile and fighting in Glasgow derbies puerile, they soon will. Why Ashley Cole, Sir Alex Ferguson and company need a sabbatical 2011-03-10T00:05:01Z The philosophers of Europe, who have been thus engaged, have excelled all the moral philosophers that preceded them, in the former part of their pursuit, but suggested nothing but puerile absurdities, in the latter. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z The more he saw of her, the more he realized the lofty ideals of her life, the more puerile and contemptible his own past seemed. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z They are no sooner emancipated from the bright buttons which unite the two principal articles of puerile apparel, than they begin to pant for virile habiliments. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z He abuses his love for puerile anecdotes, makes us a present of stories about dogs, and of recitals of what a little girl has said to her sheep. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z But the quarrel which he seeks to pick with me is so utterly puerile, that I will not engage in it. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z How many false and puerile forms this feeling has taken it does not fall within our present scope to notice. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z He was little more than an acquaintance, really, but I did try, in my own cloudy, puerile ways, to imbibe his essence within the moralistic constraints I was dealt. My lust: A Valentine's Day confession and the psychology of infatuation 2011-02-14T17:15:02.580Z Such puerile charges remind me rather of the tricks of children than actions of men. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z There should come a time when the puerile voice changes, and henceforward is recognised as masculine. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z When such assimilating the Sound to the Sense is not affected 'tis very agreeable; but when there is any Force or Affectation in it, 'tis puerile and distasteful. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z Such puerile interpretations have commonly been confined to countries like the United States, where the political passions of a democracy have had the fullest sway. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z The attempt to draw a parallel case between Nurse Cavell and Russian women who have fought as soldiers is puerile in the extreme. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z A human figure, but so dishevelled, so fantastic, and yet so mean and puerile in its extravagance that it seemed the outcome of a childish dream. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The notion of remedying such an evil by concession is as puerile as it is dishonest. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z A few, but none of consequence; puerile passions and brief affairs of the starlight, never the full ruddy glow of a riper devotion, the finding of the One Woman.... Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" was her favorite novel; she had smoked her maiden cigarette—in fact, two of them; and she no longer subscribed to the stork-and-baby myth, which seemed to her puerile. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z Judging by such recent events, some might think the internet was invented purely for puerile, sexual bullying. Cyber-bullying: bullying by another name 2010-10-06T08:00:00Z On the one hand, its very existence has ruffled art critics, who deride the concept as puerile. Bravo's Work of Art Riles Up the Art World 2010-08-04T14:25:00Z BP and its bosses richly deserve to be pilloried over Deepwater but this is far too important to be reduced to a puerile slanging match. BP is just a symptom of a dangerous addiction to oil 2010-06-12T23:06:00Z The puerile anthem of a current Pepsi commercial is drearily prophetic: "Forever young." George F. Will: Immature Men Won't Grow Up 2010-02-26T23:08:00Z In the shock and shame of her father's marriage, she had put away childish things, among them her schoolmates, who seemed in the retrospect immature and puerile. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z Last month, the Office of Fair Trading Budget accused Ryanair of being "puerile and childish" over its payment policy, with customers only avoiding fees when they pay online if they use a Mastercard prepaid card. 2010-02-01T07:08:00Z He had abandoned as puerile his first impulse, after his marriage, to throw up his whole stewardship to the Wall Street masters. The Law of Hemlock Mountain This kind of puerile description is a very pretty employment for an old fellow whose brow is furrowed with the cares of politics and war. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams The one a Goliah clad in bristling armor—the other a pioneer boy with a puerile sling. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution When ex-President Cleveland intimated that the civil government provisional of the Cuban insurgents was puerile and immature, and said it was, for the most part, a government on paper, he was more correct than otherwise. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 She hated excitement in every form, excitement that is of the puerile kind. A Bed of Roses How silly to address such a puerile pretense to any one gifted with common sense!” The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters But the name of "Fronsacquin," which De Montalvan had jestingly applied, so gratified his puerile vanity, that for a few days he looked upon the warlike adventurer almost with affection. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 That proud Briton considered the Provincials puerile and declined the proffered aid. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution That grown men should seriously hope to defeat the designs of a great corporation by any such puerile means was inconceivable. The King of Arcadia What I could tell would sound so puerile in the broad sunshine that enveloped us. Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth I have often heard the text objected to as puerile, but, at that height, all action, all understanding, all personages, all surroundings, must needs be allegorical. On the Heights A Novel Later, however, the early and simple mythology degenerated into something complicated and almost puerile. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women His statement that he had found the money would seem puerile to a jury already convinced of his guilt, and what else but denial of the crime would they expect from the accused? A Master Hand The Story of a Crime Intelligent judges allow that this book is full of truth, and that its arguments are convincingly victorious over Bettinelli's arrogant and puerile scoffings. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Had he spent evening after evening at my house, entertaining me with tales of the devices and the many inconsistencies of criminals, to be met now by such a puerile disclaimer as this? Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth His arguments to the judge were puerile—positively puerile! John Marsh's Millions The defeat of his cause, which had many chances of success, was unquestionably due to a very large extent to his want of capacity, his apathy, and his increasing absorption in practices of puerile piety. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" It was puerile as a jack-straw, but it seemed shrewdness itself to him. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel It may be admitted, however, that the practitioners of the Ballade and the Rondeau soon fell into puerile and inartistic over-refinements. A Short History of French Literature It says little for the meeting that such a puerile question was politely received. The Religious Life of London And so, amidst magnificent shows, and what seems to our taste puerile trifling, the pair began their married life highly contented with each other and the world. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History Fellows shivered, attempted some puerile protest, balked, and stammeringly obeyed his restless and irritated companion. Three Thousand Dollars The fact remains, however, that even on this lowest level of dramatic art the current of the time set decisively towards home-made pictures of English life, however crude and puerile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Of this there is as yet no sign, except in the puerile and disgusting school of naturalism, a mere scum-flake—to keep up the metaphor—on the surface of the waters. A Short History of French Literature Is there no end to this bloody and puerile sport, in which the partners change about from century to century—no end, until the whole of humanity is exhausted thereby? Above the Battle Again the details of crowds of lords and ladies in their sumptuous garments, of banquets and dancing, of chivalric jousts and puerile maskings, may be left to the imagination of the reader. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History It is placed in juxtaposition to them in a puerile and accessory way as in the allegorical attributes of the Medici tombs, and we can take it away without hurting the strength of the work. Michelangelo The nymphs remained fair, and the barbarians, ignorant of the winsome names they bore in other days, called them fairies, and, imputing to them a capricious character and puerile tastes, both feared and loved them. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels But he had professed himself above such puerile superstitions, and now was the time to make good his professions. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland In the Vedas there is much that is absurd and more that is puerile. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern In good truth, I dare scarcely venture to read such a puerile detail. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Its astronomy, cosmogony, physiology, are so puerile as to invite our mirth, if the occasion did not forbid. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 To the Anglo-Saxon mind, this may sometimes appear a trifle puerile, if not also ridiculous. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things Johnson has in consequence accorded to the Pastorals the praise of being composed with "close thought;" but the conception was very imperfectly executed, and in part is puerile. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The old men forgot the dignity of their age in a puerile leisure, and the young men were dissipated and purposeless. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. Mansel’s sole answer was a puerile attempt at a pious sneer. Rationalism No lady would take such cruel advantage of puerile innocence! The Song of the Wolf So, for a while, our conversation lagged and faltered and fell into fitful fragments and puerile tatters, while my gaze devoured her. The Portal of Dreams The story of Lodona is told with sweetness; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition So!" says Dulce, with a shrug and a light laugh that reduces his attempt at scorn to a puerile effort unworthy of notice; "a compliment to you Portia; and—the other thing to me. Portia or By Passions Rocked He wrote a little, but his efforts at sixteen were puerile. The "Genius" But it is puerile to imagine that this will be the only or chief result of the war now going on, if not arrested by intervention in one form or another. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. In bygone years, however, I have seen even protestants, who were unable to look upon the puerile ceremony without shedding tears. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. II. Windsor Forest is not free from flat passages, inflation of sentiment, and false and puerile thoughts. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition One of the really puerile and nonsensical passages in “Endymion” is that which opens book iii. Life of John Keats "Read the letter," persisted Dr. Tredwell, shrewdly conscious that if once the young man's professional instinct was aroused, all the puerile objections which influenced him would immediately vanish. Hand and Ring There is a batch of anecdotes about Lamartine, whose conspicuous gifts and position put his puerile vanity in relief; and that vanity Sainte-Beuve never spared. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. This ceremony, which to the wise may only appear puerile, has, since I have been able to observe the people here, always produced much good and salutary fruit. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. II. The trick was puerile and degrading, but it inflicted no injury. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The most violently nihilistic of doctrines was fanned into an idolatry puerile and meek. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal There followed an avalanche of insufferably dull and puerile magazines, in which the 7 word Sex was strictly taboo, and the ideal aimed at was apparently the extreme opposite to real life. Modern marriage and how to bear it It is hardly worthy of the occasion, and the figures on the pedestal are puerile. Old and New London Volume I In these crude and puerile speculations we have the beginning of mental philosophy. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition How transitory, therefore, must be the local arrangements of man, and how puerile the study of the science miscalled Antiquities! A Morning's Walk from London to Kew He is just a heap of nerves, a compound of puerile passion and hysterical protest. Aliens The notion of remedying such an evil by concession, is as puerile as it is dishonest. The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts The earliest records of this useful society are filled with accounts of experiments on the Baconian inductive principle, many of which now appear to us puerile, but which were valuable in the childhood of science. Old and New London Volume I Its astronomy, cosmogony, physiology, are so puerile as to invite our mirth if the occasion did not forbid. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition I distinguished the very words, in the successive tones, which the school-boys and puerile imaginations at Chiswick used to combine with them. A Morning's Walk from London to Kew Their remarks concerning Divine things are even puerile. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford May 5th.—We have many rumors to-day, and nothing authentic, except that some of the enemy’s transports are in the James River, and landing some troops, a puerile demonstration, perhaps. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital To such depths of puerile ignorance and terror did the wretch sink in his guilty fancy. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 And so one puerile outrage succeeded another, scarcely a day passing without some new triumph of the kind to report. The Recipe for Diamonds Ask how much a master can follow of the puerile politics in any school; so much and no more we may understand of the events which surround and menace us with their results. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) At p. 10 we have a truly puerile misconception of the meaning of 1 Cor. xv. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford To say that a mob of a million or so of untrained citizenry could leap to arms and put to flight the bullet-tested soldiery of Europe is worse than puerile—is murderous stupidity, he declared.... News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories The gentle creatures, which, I really do not know why, inspire puerile repulsion, became astonishingly tame as soon as they found out that no harm was intended them. My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 With St. Ambrose, however, this puerile systematization is quite subordinate to a very forcible and truthful exposition of the real nature of the Christian life. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), In all that he had done, 'puerile and silly,' to quote his own criticism of Handsome Nell, or at times halting and crude, there was the ring of sincerity. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series "They are puerile," said the Nothingarian, "futile, because they do not go to the root." The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales The Weakness of Ionian Philosophy.—Viewed from the modern standpoint of scientific research, the early philosophers of Greece appear puerile and insignificant. History of Human Society I judge that it will fail, because I can see no marks of wisdom in the style of execution, and the State paper is singularly puerile and weak in argument. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II He had weakened like a schoolboy, all his arguments had been puerile; and even her husband, who was far from censorious, had stated that the whole affair was badly handled. Wunpost Writing of this song afterwards, Burns, who was always a keen critic, admits that it is 'very puerile and silly.' Robert Burns Famous Scots Series The bourgeois men of letters declare this puerile book a profound work, and its author a man of rare intellect. Anarchism and Socialism You two are restless, meddling, impudent scoundrels, whose chief motive-principle is a selfish ambition, as dangerous as it is puerile. Shirley But "Joe" and "Mag," and, to take another example, the stuff about Catalina's "crocodile papa" in The Spanish Nun, are neither grim nor sly, they are only puerile. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Why were not her talents made of some avail, instead of this puerile pottering to please one's self? Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart We lawyers know how common such puerile, commonplace actions are in the supreme moments of life, and how seldom men wring their hands, or use tragic gesture, or indeed words. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 In the end, an influence stronger than the puerile frenzy of Arthur Dobbs forced the Company to unwonted activity in inland exploration. The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) Yet the promoters of disaffection miscalculated the numbers and strength of their party, and the resulting demonstration was factitious and puerile. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France His supplication to Father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile. Select Poems of Thomas Gray |
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