| 单词 | puerility |
| 例句 | Rated R for sex and violence of unusual puerility. ‘Lucky Day’ Review: A Revenge Film That Won’t Grow Up 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z A nonchalance, bordering on puerility, colored her throwaway Halloween comment; what Lack characterized as cataclysmic seemed, to me and to some black people I talked to, somewhat boringly idiotic. NBC’s Firing of Megyn Kelly Is as Cynical as Her Hiring Was 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z The guitarist, Angus Young, still dresses like a 50s schoolboy, underlining the inveterate puerility of AC/DC's oeuvre. My favourite album: Back in Black by AC/DC 2011-08-05T15:23:28Z It was an extension of his general puerility, his weird clowning, his fake laughter. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z On the page, this bifurcation works, but on the screen it saps the story’s momentum, partly because there’s no violence in the room to distract you from the genericism and puerility of the dialogue. Review: Dressed to Kill, ‘Atomic Blonde’ Also Shoots to Kill 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The idea of such practices brings out both the wit and puerility among these longtime, long-married pals, who begin speculating wildly about the polyamorous Pip. Review: Plunging Into Polyamory With ‘How to Transcend a Happy Marriage’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z While it's an hour of comedy that revels in its own puerility, it's bolstered by some fascinating research. This week's new live comedy 2013-03-09T06:00:15Z The duo is signed to Fueled by Ramen, an imprint probably best known for putting out the work of Fall Out Boy, and they share an insistent puerility and melodic flamboyance with their pop-punk labelmates. The Slippery Appeal of the Biggest New Band in America 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Has “The Tonight Show’s” current host, Jimmy Fallon, ever seethed with anything, unless one can seethe with puerility? The Legacy of David Letterman, Icon of the Grizzled Generation 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z I’d be more inclined to tut-tut at the puerility of the late Victorian sense of humor, except TikTok was only recently convincing people to eat Tide Pods. The Tom Collins is a seriously classic cocktail, but its origin is a joke 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z The school officials’ contention that C.G.’s post was “hate speech targeting the Jewish community” was as dumb as his joke and confused puerility with animosity. Opinion | Now we see the wisdom of the high court’s ‘vulgar cheerleader’ ruling 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Could there be a more honest example of his puerility? Opinion | Donald Trump’s Radical Honesty 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Somehow, those Knicks represent the height of basketball purity, while Brady’s Patriots signify the depths of football puerility. A Player or a Team Seeks an Edge. So What’s New? 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The technology surrounding them has advanced since “The Lawnmower Man,” but the pungent bouquet of puerility and superstition remains. Why Is Our Sci-Fi So Glum About A.I.? 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z My first act is to edit the name of the magazine to the Nude Statesman, which will allay fears that this populist move will descend into puerility. Russell Brand to edit New Statesman 2013-10-16T17:08:07Z Many apparent puerilities, such as the counting of letters and the marking of the middle point of books, had a practical use in enabling copyists of MSS. to determine the amount of work done. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z And it must be avowed that puerility, triviality, indecency even, so dominate there, that it is easy, when approaching it, to give one's self over to a universal disgust. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z But he plucks up courage, and proceeds to discourse upon the puerilities which absorbed their minds. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z But, amusing as it is, it shows into what depths of puerility the amorous casuistry of these romances had fallen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Let nothing tempt you into the habit of indulging in gossip, scandal, and unmanly puerility—not even a good-natured desire to assimilate yourself to the companionship of temporary associates. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z His prose writings gained great reputation in their own day, and long afterwards, but are disfigured by apparent straining after effect, and by frequent puerility and circumlocution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z "One Lord, one faith, one baptism" they hold with us, and it is of great interest to recognise this fact in the midst of many superstitions and even puerilities. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Doubtless the priest in those times of ignorance had to deal with many most profane and unspiritual people, who could only be restrained by fear, and to whose "puerility" much had to be conceded. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z There are some puerilities and much philosophy, trivialities and some of the profoundest reflections. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Criticism is of an abject density and puerility—it doesn't exist—it writes the intellect of our race too low. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Its very puerility added to her sense of degradation. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z By aiming at popularity, the language was often reduced to the lowest strain, and to mere puerilities. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Their zeal was great, indeed, and descended to puerility. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z To return to exploded superstitions or to beliefs now recognised to be illusory is as much a moral impossibility as it would be for a full-grown man to return to the puerilities of his childhood. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z That gentleman, penetrating into the secret laboratory of life, arranged the facts of being in his mind, taking pains to pit his ideas against my inexperienced reasonings; sometimes yawning, again smilingly pardoning my puerilities. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z His big toe is awful; no one can kiss it, unless on bended knees, and after the performance of sundry puerilities, as Bishop Eastburn, of Boston, very properly calls all such fooleries. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z This infant, like the infants of Michael Angelo, and of what we possess of the ancients, teems with the man, but without that sacrifice of puerility observable in them. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z From the monastic vows and regulations, we might be agreeably surprised if the literary productions of those who were governed by them were anything but models of absurdity and puerility. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z The admirable working of theoretical examination papers is sometimes in ridiculous contrast with the puerility of the writing. How to Write Music Musical Orthography 2011-09-01T02:00:19.133Z There was a childishness, a puerility about it that made the men smile. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z They love their God and their country too well to crouch before the puerilities—as the learned Bishop Eastburn of Boston expresses it—or the treasonable designs of Jesuits. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Good Heaven! before a scene like Gavarnie, what true artist must not fling away his colors and his brushes in despair and disgust with his own puerility and impotence? Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z But again, let us not forget that those days were more deeply stained than ours with puerility and cruelty and spite. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z These Table-Rock Albums contain some true poetry; much would-be fine verse which falls below mediocre; much of horse-play or puerility; and now and then a gleam of wit. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z The puerility of garb and ceremonial was lost in the significance of the result. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z In the cold light of the following day, after-dinner confidences, even with the best-beloved, have a way of showing up all their puerilities and inadequacies. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z It is the degradation of language to employ it to such a purpose, and logic needs revising to save us from publishing such puerility in the name of learning and of reason. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z More, it is true, rose above the puerility of his time; Erasmus rose above both its cruelty and its puerility; Henry rose above neither. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z To defend its many puerilities, and even immoral tales, men have resorted to casuistry and dissimulation. How the Bible was Invented A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society 2011-07-07T02:00:31.270Z He had discerned the error of those inartificial 304 writers, whose minute puerility, in their sterile abundance, detailed till nothing was remembered, and described, till nothing was perceptible. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z As a member of the British Parliament his speeches were of a thoroughly commonplace kind, usually marked by some attempted smartness that but showed the puerility and poverty of his brain. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The sense of humour is merely negative in a poet; it does not give a poet sublimity, but it rescues him from puerility and absurdity. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z The manner in which the nature of the distinct and indestructible atom was arrived at, shows the puerility of the theory. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z It need hardly be observed that neither in Villani's nor in Dante's prose do we find the same puerility. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Here is the puerility of a genius of the first order! Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Corneille found the stage and every other department of literature infested with these puerilities, into which he rarely fell. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The puerilities of inefficacious charms and mysterious ceremonies with which he deludes his clients are not all. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z I fear you may think these puerilities, dear Major Frankfort. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z The ingenuous charm, again, which painters threw over the puerilities of the monastic fancy, is absent from these plays. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The mere lovers of antiquity endured the raillery of the wits for the puerility of the plot, the vulgar humour, and the homeliness of the style. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z We miss even the objections raised by modern grammarians, the idle conceits, the play upon words, the puns, the improbability, the extravagance, the absurdity, the obscenity, the puerility, the bombast, the emphasis, the exaggeration. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z In poetry his taste was strictly national and didactic; he began as a disciple of Cats, nor could he to the end of his life tolerate what he called “the puerilities of Shakespeare.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z This well-known writer smiles at the puerilities of patristic science. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time There had been intimacy—oh yes, intimacy as well as puerility—in the horse-play of which they had just had a glimpse. The Spoils of Poynton After this I set myself to examine his terza-rima poem, and had no difficulty in exposing a long list of stupidities, improprieties, puerilities, and injustices. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second It was published, but met with a frigid reception, being full of conceits and puerilities, and the author wisely omitted it from his collected works. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes From ponderous puerilities of this sort to the lurid descriptions of massacre and pillage, vouchsafed us by magazine and moving picture writers, was a short step. American World Policies Then the wondrous puerility, of what I suppose we must call the design, becomes apparent. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Almighty God has to tolerate more puerility in His service than any monarch on earth. The Religious Life of London Those who take pleasure in the details of such puerility may be referred to Hall’s Chronicle for them: we here have more to do with the hearts beneath the finery, than with the trappings themselves. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History Schelling and Hegel showed the puerility to which great men are driven when they started to construct science out of their own intuitions, instead of patiently and humbly sitting down to study Nature. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series This Voltairean Prince, who had held the Christian verities so cheap, was superstitious even to puerility. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty From the contradictions, puerilities, and impossibilities indicated in the preceding paragraphs, it may be anticipated that the faith of Mohammed has been broken into many sects. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 The bad effect does not stop with the puerilities themselves, but they communicate an air of weakness and unreality to the general texture of the work. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition But, the Sun will shine cheerfully for all the world in spite of puerility. Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America And yet one thoroughly convinced of the puerility of such demonstrations may also think that the Swiss flag itself has been unfurled in causes more glorious. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. I turned over the leaves, read and laughed, read again and found the puerility at least poetical. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. II. Then there was no God, no spirit, nothing but puerility, madness, and deformity, in all that creeps, swims, and flies, especially in this ball that thinks, reflects, and weeps, and underneath devours and masticates. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. Affectations, conceits, and puerilities, abound, both in thought and in diction: however willing to be pleased, the reader is often disconcerted and provoked. Life of John Keats Is it not strange, that intelligent and learned men, should be compelled to rely on such puerilities, as arguments and truly supporting such tremendous conclusions? The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. If they are really clever they will catch me in worse things than that, in puerility for instance, and affectation, to say nothing of blasphemy and sedition. Pot-Boilers Our friends the caricaturists were fully alive to these puerilities. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Even the moderate French critic Faguet becomes enraged at the puerilities of the Russian. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The analyst might well be tempted to smile at the puerility of this logic. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times He left a diary behind him which for puerility could not be exceeded, and of which Nichols gives several ridiculous specimens. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors "Smile" needs rigorous metrical and rhetorical revision to escape puerility. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 In the second stanza the Bard is well described; but in the third we have the puerilities of obsolete mythology. Select Poems of Thomas Gray De Quincey's passages of splendid rhetoric are too often succeeded by dead levels of verbosity and laboured puerilities which make annoyance alternate with enthusiasm. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) He regarded that practice as a useless puerility and usually an indulgence in morbid self-communing and unwholesome self-consciousness. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs But the rabbis daub it over with their pious puerilities. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The unknown is also the terrible, and when the mind is alarmed there is no room for the puerilities of egotism. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) His puerilities and eccentricities, we are told, amounted almost to madness. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 The author of this volume is not surpassed by Boswell in reverence for "the Great Old Samuel," but happily is not infected with his puerilities. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. He saw the puerility of his young conceptions, he saw the unreal world in which they had been conceived. The Rainbow Perhaps the Christian will join us in laughing at such pious puerilities. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Some of them wrote voluminously and knowingly of the life of Pierre Ducr�, and hinted at other productions of his, which they said demonstrated his puerility. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Here, he sinks again in many places, to puerility of conception and coarseness of dialogue. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot It lives not in the effete forms and childish ceremonies of the fashionable drawing-room—it has no illustration in the tinsel trappings and gaudy puerilities of a Court. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West “This line of thought brought up at every step some phase of Plato and Aristotle,” said the professor, and we are thankful that he did not resurrect any more of the puerilities of Athenian ignorance. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 This would have made a striking scene, but the pious puerility of the sequel spoils it all. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) And yet the puerilities of many and the obscenity of others of the Vedic songs and prayers are well-known. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ She is great in cheese and bitter beer, in claret cup and still champagne, but she despises the puerilities of sweets or of effervescing wines. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) But it certainly imports an element of puerility into romance, which is regrettable, and it diminishes the dignity and the poetry of the things rather lamentably. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 We can infer this from the signs of puerility of certain legends. Essay on the Creative Imagination When religion ministers to their weakness, as it always does, they gravely discuss the most astonishing puerilities. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The errors and puerilities of radical finalism are due to the misapprehension of this point. Creative Evolution Eternal puerility of penal repressions applied to things of the soul! The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Keats was ridding himself of the puerilities of Cockaigne when he wrote that fragment of an epic—a fragment which is unsurpassed by any modern attempt at heroic composition. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Hence the seeming puerility of fiction when contrasted with these more wondrous phenomena of fact. The Right of American Slavery But of all the pious puerilities on record, probably the worst are ascribed to the rabbis. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) There is an unfounded prejudice against poetry in many men because of the fancied puerility of it and its silly sentiment. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide He is for ever amusing himself with the puerilities of mythology; his king is Jupiter, who, if the queen brings no children, has a barren Juno. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II At the time when such puerility was disturbing this cradle of freedom and cacophony, Bach and Händel were at work in their contrapuntal webs, the Scarlattis, Corelli and Tartini and Porpora were alive. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Were ever such vague puerilities collected into one short paragraph? The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Such were the puerilities of the Sabbath Law among the Jews. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Very interesting is the exhibition presented to us of this powerful intellect, breaking out in flashes of strong sense, and relapsing again into the puerilities of the sect. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 In the second stanza, the Bard is well described; but in the third we have the puerilities of obsolete mythology. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II But even amidst the affectation and love of anagrams and puerilities which sullied her later years Elizabeth remained a lover of letters and of all that was greatest and purest in letters. History of the English People, Volume IV No wonder that those who preceded me have indulged in puerilities to swell out their books. Diary in America, Series One ONE of the chief puerilities of our time is the love of advertisement. The Simple Life But as it falls upon the strong sense to act, and on the puerilities only to preach, the man comes out, upon the whole, as a great and able governor. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Their minds, restricted to puerilities, had never grown up. Sacrifice The natives were variable, from ignorance and distrust; probably from mental puerility: thus, their war whoop and defiance were soon succeeded by shouts of laughter. The History of Tasmania , Volume II His admiration for bravery and perilous boldness is only equalled by his contempt for cowardice and puerility, and this is really the secret of the nativeʼs disdain for the Chinese race. The Philippine Islands It is hardly worth while, perhaps, making any reply to such puerility. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles Swift, in his dotage, appears to have been gratified by such puerilities as Scarron frequently wrote. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 These puerilities really almost disarm contempt into compassion. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 Will your would—be—republican, foregathering at some Hole-in-the-Wall meeting, allow a conservative speaker to say a word in opposition to his progressive puerilities? She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. During the march, the young Prince had manifested a lofty sense of his own honour; but it was combined with a great degree of obstinacy in some respects, almost accompanied by puerility. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. They lavish their strength, their puerility, and their anger. Napoleon the Little In a word, these sermons were addressed to the multitude; and therefore they show good sense and absurdity; fancy and puerility; satire and insipidity; extravagance and truth. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 In this work he has preserved us Julian's words, omitting only his frequent repetitions and puerilities. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March It would rid us probably of many puerilities which degrade our current dictionaries. Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Declamation, repetition, puerility, a lack of logic, and incoherence strike him at every turn. The Necessity of Atheism Frankly, is it not humiliating to the nineteenth century, that it should be destined to transmit to future ages the example of such puerilities seriously and gravely practiced? Sophisms of the Protectionists And we bolster up our satisfaction by pointing to some mistake of logic or some puerility of statement. A Preface to Politics Here, as on all occasions, he was struck with the queer jumble of her taste, her mixture of intelligence and puerility. The Tragic Muse Some men, it is sarcastically said, are boys all life-long, and carry with them their puerility to the grave. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The Protestant ministers, and the King himself, disapproved of the puerilities and trifles with which they had stuffed this instrument; and it occasioned debates which had like to have thrown everything again into confusion. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 These are puerilities unworthy of a serious mind. Sophisms of the Protectionists He called the moonshiners' cave a cellar, however, and declared that he went hunting for his mamma in a boat, and the counsel for the defence made the most of such puerilities and contradictions. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee The instruction imparted in the high-schools has long since lost its Rationalistic puerilities. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology He it was who watched and watered their crops; and, indeed, without his aid, says the old missionary, quite out of patience with such puerilities, “they think they could not boil a pot.” The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America The fury and puerility, the monstrous pride and jealousy, of Paul, made him constantly quarrel with those who were brought into close relations with him. The Friendships of Women Hence it was, that Solon the Wise could not escape the bitter, but just censure of the priest in Egypt, who accused both him, and the Grecians in general, of the grossest puerility and ignorance. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. All movements against puerility and imbecility in the drama have originated, not with actors, but with actresses—that is, in so far as they have originated among stage folks at all. Damn! A Book of Calumny The latter was a complement of the former; more heavy, but by virtue of its weight adapted to that class of people, everywhere abundant, who suspect either danger or puerility in every earnest sentence. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Old Feversham walked with a heavier step, and there had come a note of puerility into his voice. The Four Feathers William James was also in warm sympathy with Luther who, he thought, "in his immense, manly way . . . stretched the soul's imagination and saved theology from puerility." The Age of the Reformation Many of his redeeming qualities are often regarded as evidences of puerility and barbarism. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro No affectations deform his lines, no conceits his thoughts, no puerilities his descriptions. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Bishops Pearson and Butler, and Mr. Mansel are seriously at fault in their notions of prophecy, and even Jerome is guilty of gross puerilities. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Do not let us disdain to ask it; science is made of these puerilities. Social Life in the Insect World Page 271 St. Bernard concludes with the universal argument: "Oh, God, if one is not ashamed of these puerilities, why does not one at least spare the expense?" Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance By puerility we mean a pedantic habit of mind, which by over-elaboration ends in frigidity. On the Sublime With all his puerilities there is a mixture of grandeur. Great Italian and French Composers Others of these writings are unutterably absurd and puerile, worthy of notice only as showing the type of the puerilities current in the age of their composition. Companion to the Bible The conception that anything in this life could of itself be of any great moment to us, was considered as much a puerility unworthy of a man of the world, as a disloyalty to God. Is Life Worth Living? Exactitude incommodes us and rules we regard as puerilities. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil We were drinking beer out of a stone jug, we were singing vulgar songs, we were revelling in the silly puerilities of a bank holiday out of doors. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton But what will be said of the puerilities which I have been obliged to recall, of the mean pretensions of the courtiers on the eve of an immense revolution? Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men The Rabbinic system of interpretation in which the writer was educated furnishes an explanation, indeed, of this and other like puerilities, but no vindication of them. Companion to the Bible V. The puerilities, vapouring, and mysticism of these letters proclaim their forgery. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Then suddenly in a flash of revealment he saw beyond the puerilities—beyond the stubborn old man who, with all his narrow self-will and obstinacy was merely playing the game for others. Empire Builders Beauty even appears in the score at moments, and there are charming and picturesque bits, as well as puerilities and shocking vulgarities. Musical Memories They are in some respects notably tame and puerile,—with a puerility which is not childish simplicity, but a lack of inventive fancy, and which exhibits itself in bald repetition. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 But he was noble, lofty, sincere, without a touch of meanness in his composition, above circumlocution, with a simplicity of character strikingly great, but without anything like puerility or weakness. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia Frankly, is it not humiliating to the nineteenth century, that it should be destined to transmit to future ages the example of such puerilities seriously and gravely practised? What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader The public are treated with contempt when an author professes to publish his puerilities. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Let us have no more talk of puerilities. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon Catharine was charmed with the enthusiasm and eloquence of her guest, but she perfectly appreciated the genius and the puerility combined in his character. The Empire of Russia Every actor knows the difference between portraying imbecility and being silly himself—between puerility, as characteristic of a part in posse, and as being a trait of the performer in esse. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 And the seeming puerility of this effort to salve the wounds inflicted upon Nature had filled her with pitying contempt. The Man in the Twilight The genius of Milton alone could discard all these vulgar puerilities, and assign to the author of evil the terrible dignity of one who should seem not "less than archangel ruined." Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft To what direction soever I turn I see only vain puerilities, useless labor, doubtful hypotheses, presumption and falsehood. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 As for the right wing verists, I can only laugh at the frantic puerilities of these would-be psychologists, who have never explored an unknown district of the mind nor ever studied an unhackneyed passion. Là-bas The body becomes imbecile, the spirit supine and sentimental, the morals vitiated, and the mind sinks into complete puerility. The Christian Home At last she was satisfying the dream of her life, the only desire which had worried her amidst her weak-minded puerility. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Even in masses of what men have called his puerility there are often germs of immense worth,—taking years, perhaps, to show life, but sure to be alive at last. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Our author concludes: "Bluff, to be successful, must never be founded upon puerility or brag." Poise: How to Attain It The puerility of Oriental science in all its departments, the prevalence of superstition even among the cultivated, the lack of historical insight and interpretation of history are adduced as conclusive evidences of this view. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic But even in the light of that error of judgment we could appreciate the puerility of conserving supplies as if the dogs of war were to go on barking until doomsday. The Siege of Kimberley I fall into a puerility which may be innocent or vicious, I cannot decide. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Their rudeness of construction, their ingrained coarseness of style, their puerility, their obscenity, and indecency, according to our standard, are indescribable. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England The professor of slang could degrade the conduct of the soldiers on board the Birkenhead; he could make the choruses from Samson Agonistes seem like the Cockney puerilities of a comic news-sheet. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour The spirit of New Japan is indifferent to religion; but this is not due to an inherently non-religious or irreligious nature, but to the empty externalism and shallow puerilities of the only religions they know. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic One must have passed two years in solitude to be able to comprehend these puerilities. The Cross of Berny It found the greater portion of the noblesse luxuriating in pleasure, and thinking only of selfish, if not of criminal indulgence, in pursuits equally marked by puerility and vice. The Idler in France You will salute the flags for the last time; to that ancient enthusiasm which flattered the puerility of your ancestors, you will say a peaceful and final farewell. Light Their strong common sense compelled them to reject the puerilities advanced as serious evidence by the Catholic Church; but they cast aside with equal vehemence and more horror the doctrines of the Bruno school. Elizabethan Demonology The Japanese were weary of Buddhistic puerilities and transcendental doctrines that led nowhere. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Doubtless in the Chinese mind there is a connection between moths and evil spirits; but you smile at all such puerilities. By the Golden Gate I am far too advanced for such a puerility. The Human Machine But he said that the "conspiracy merited no special attention, being about an equal mixture of puerility and malice." Abraham Lincoln, Volume II It was one of the first English idioms he picked up, and its puerility made him facetious. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People He scarcely liked it, but his reason rescued him from the puerility of a grievance against her on this account. The Pretty Lady W. WORDSWORTH: "a good hand, more worthy of the author of the best parts of 'The Excursion,' than of the puerilities of many of the Lyrical Ballads." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 478, February 26, 1831 From this discreditable business it is a relief to turn to Mr. Busby's bloodless puerilities. The Long White Cloud He was weary of the childish quarrels and bickerings of the monks, of their puerility, of their selfishness and self-indulgence, of their hopeless vulgarity of mind, and utterly discouraged with their inextricable labyrinths of deception. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator I am solemnly warned against such learned puerilities every time I turn to my shelves and encounter Swedenborg's "Arcana Cœlestia." The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible The style adopted exhibits a very marked Euphuism, and the whole form of narrative is characterized by that fondness for petty conceit which not seldom gives an air of puerility to the lighter Elizabethan prose. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England The puerility of the words caused Honora to check her speech. The Precipice I have been told by Hindoos that the great obstacle to the spread of Christianity in their country is the puerility of our dogma of creation. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy He leans rashly enough on the assumption that her "Gondal Chronicles" were, in their puerility, beneath contempt, still more rashly on his own opinion that she was no poet. The Three Brontës What had he to do with these puerilities? Love and Mr. Lewisham This tendency did not escape Guarini, who, when not led into puerilities by his love of self-laudation, often shows considerable insight. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England A Wordsworth, a poet, even in his puerilities, whose capacious mind, like the great pool of Norway, draws into its vortex not only the mighty things of the deep, but its minute weeds and refuse. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12. He might design, by this information, either to boast the early maturity of his genius, or to conciliate indulgence to the puerility of his performances. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II It would be difficult to discover puerility in any of Buonarroti's utterances; and his only vanity was a certain pride in the supposed descent of his house from that of Canossa. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti And, therefore, there comes a natural revulsion from the baldness and puerility into which Wordsworth too often fell by indulging his false theories on these matters. Literary and General Lectures and Essays In France, the revolution left men no leisure for such puerilities. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 But the race of scholars is commonly badly brought up, and unless they are bridled in by the rules of their elders they indulge in infinite puerilities. The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury In brief, there is no puerility that is not at home in this sphere of misbegotten effort. Ponkapog Papers She felt that in the turbulence of the drama she was discovering a history more important than the commonplace chronicles which dealt with senators and their pompous puerilities. Main Street As for the heroes of early Christianity, they were madmen or humbugs; their legends, devilish and filthy puerilities. Literary and General Lectures and Essays Philosophers are beginning to see the puerility of such reproaches. The Psychology of Revolution Knight's warmth revived towards the end; the solemn impressions he was beginning to receive from the scene around them abstracting from his heart as a puerility any momentary vexation at words. A Pair of Blue Eyes That will supplant the other, which only comes from his puerility, from his not taking his position in the world—that of a rich young man of ancient stock—seriously enough. The Europeans Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. Les Misérables I can't help thinking, old man, that it was sheer puerility. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I But while he was pondering I thought proper to make my exit; and leave him to settle the contest between his pride and his puerility as well as he was able. Anna St. Ives What puerility there had been in his two experiments at Lourdes and Rome, the /naivete/ of a poor distracted being, consumed by desire to love and believe. The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1 The puerility of the freethinkers consists in believing that a free society can maintain itself and keep itself together without a common faith, without a religious prejudice of some kind. Amiel's Journal She had her weak points, for she was a despiser of the gods, mocking all religion and addicted to some contemptible Syrian cult of superstition and puerilities. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Their puerilities bring out more distinctly the simplicity, the nobleness, the worthiness of this one solitary incident of His early days, which has been preserved for us. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke The exalted characters, the austere laws, the energetic virtues, the graceful mythology, the thrilling eloquence of antiquity, were annihilating the puerilities of the old Italian rhymes, and creating purer and nobler tastes. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Christophe observed the odd puerility of the subjects which they labored to depict—orchards, kitchen-gardens, farmyards, musical menageries, a whole Zoo. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Great souls care only for what is great, and to the spirit which hovers in the sight of the Infinite, any sort of artifice seems a disgraceful puerility. Amiel's Journal It lacks the realism of Indian life, and embodies an amount of puerility of which the Indian nature is not susceptible. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines If only I knew anything of all the infinite frivolity and puerility that occupies the minds of men! The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Instead of filling the youthful minds of their pupils with fables, sterile dogmas, and puerilities, why are not priests obliged, or invited to teach them truths, and to render them useful citizens of their country? Good Sense Though burdened with insufferable puerilities, it is not without the moral that a rude and deformed exterior may conceal both wit and worth. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes In spite of all the aberrations of fanaticism, all the superstitions of formalism, all the ugly superstructures of hypocrisy, all the fantastic puerilities of theology, the gospel has modified the world and consoled mankind. Amiel's Journal But Maupassant never let himself be carried away by the tinsel of his prestige, nor the puerility of his enchantment. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories It was years since he had heard anything but exceeding puerility concerning pictures. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days The second would consist of puerilities and anilities, some impossible, most incredible; and all so silly, so sensual, as to befit a dreaming Talmudist, not a Scriptural Christian. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. I wished to understand too much; my reason rebelled against their dogmas; their paradise appeared to me an incredible puerility. Doctor Pascal In short, his passion is grandeur, his fault is excess; his distinguishing mark is a kind of Titanic power with strange dissonances of puerility in its magnificence. Amiel's Journal At the same time one cannot help being struck by their puerility on many points. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin Horace Walpole speaks of Burke's 'pursuit of wit even to puerility.' Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 The puerility of these productions, as well as of his conduct, a sulking before his captors, and the decline of his physical energy, once a bottomless well, all point to the same conclusion. The Glands Regulating Personality At this crowning puerility Mr. Kaminer paused suddenly, as if he had detected in his laughter a bray. Gaslight Sonatas The puerility of the silly little arrangements to amuse removed all sense of ceremony. Tenterhooks Some people call such utterances "stuff," "nonsense," "puerilities," but nobody is so prejudiced and unreliable as the above-named some people. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 Even their traditionary lore, amid its wild puerilities, shows at times the stamp of an energy and force in striking contrast with the flimsy creations of Algonquin fancy. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century His ill-humour almost approached puerility; his laugh, the sound of his voice, his whole being seemed steeped in venom. Rudin This is the effect of no occupation—the primum mobile of the Indian prince's kite-flying and all the puerilities of the pompous East. First Footsteps in East Africa Superstition, with all its puerilities, is better than a scornful and proud philosophy which takes no cognizance of popular wants and aspirations. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. He cursed the puerility of the thought, and yet returned to it again and again in search of the sweet, sad peace he had so often found in his fancied memories. Greifenstein From the antagonism of their respective professions, the sorcerer hated the priest, who lost no opportunity of denouncing his incantations, and who ridiculed his perpetual singing and drumming as puerility and folly. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century People who had an uncontrollable antipathy to cats did not laugh at the grotesque puerilities to which it carried them. This Freedom What has come over him, that he babbles such puerilities? memorable things indeed, a child in bed, and a very ancient, worn-out dream! what stale frigid stuff! does he take us for interpreters of dreams?' Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Even religion was a compound of superstitions, ritual observances, and puerilities. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The insipidity of his objections to Shakspeare may be judged from this, that he comments in a spirit of absolute puerility upon the name Desdemona, as though intentionally formed from the Greek word for superstition. Biographical Essays Do I, Ars�ne Lupin, ever waste my time on such puerilities? The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar I wasn't thinking of your puerilities; don't imagine it. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel The Billiter affair made a new man of me: I felt that I had left the follies and puerilities of the old days behind me for ever. Getting Married It might figure occasionally on the programmes of our chamber music concerts, despite its youthful puerility. Chopin : the Man and His Music Amongst the various decorations introduced were jets d'eau, or fountains, artificial cascades, columns, statues, grottoes, rock-work, mazes or labyrinths, terraces communicating with each other by flights of steps, and similar puerilities. The Natural History of Wiltshire And he suddenly thought of the puerility of poets who have invented the useless labor of Sisyphus, the material thirst of Tantalus, the devoured heart of Prometheus! Strong as Death In the second stanza the Bard is well described, but in the third we have the puerilities of obsolete mythology. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 He mentioned it now, his father listening with the frowning smile of a man who judges such puerilities from the standpoint of comfortable middle age. A Life's Morning His speech, a commingling of puerility and charm, Philostratus has preserved. Imperial Purple For Pascal, on the other hand, a certain weariness, a certain puerility, a certain unprofitableness in them is but an extra trial of faith. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays I queried, interested, in spite of myself, at these puerilities. Simon the Jester In sooth, he seemed to push simplicity to puerility. Rejected Addresses Amongst remarks on national education, such observations cannot be misplaced, especially as the supporters of these establishments, degenerated into puerilities, affect to be the champions of religion. Vindication of the Rights of Woman The habits and dress of the people have always been primitive, and their laws simple to puerility. Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories Unfortunately, the puerility of the thing is so gross as to defeat its own object. The French Revolution - Volume 1 This literary sensitiveness at such a moment seemed little short of puerility to the man of business. The Three Partners But that a shrewd statesman, whose earliest works are characterised by manliness of thought and language, should, at near sixty years of age, descend to such puerility, is utterly inconceivable. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 The art of grouping and composition was thus learnt in Italy at a time when the most splendid exhibitions in other countries were made up of unintelligible symbolism or unmeaning puerilities. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy It is tedious to copy out the puerilities of such parallelisms. The Valet's tragedy, and other studies To speak frankly, it strikes me as the height of puerility to wish to deceive oneself upon such subjects. Elinor Wyllys, Volume 1 They perceived the puerility of human sciences, of which he had spoken to them. Seraphita From the puerilities, absurdities, and contradictions of the foregoing statement, we may gather how very unsatisfactory this so-called sacred science was. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science "He it was who watched and watered their crops; 'and, indeed, without his aid,' says the old missionary, quite out of patience with their puerilities, 'they think they could not boil a pot.'" Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology She was stung by his words into realization of the puerility of her act, and yet she felt that he had magnified it unduly and was consequently resentful. Martin Eden There is not the universal passion for a magnified puerility among them it is customary to assume. The New Machiavelli It isn't only that every day changed one's general outlook, but also that a boy fluctuates between phases of quite adult understanding and phases of tawdrily magnificent puerility. The New Machiavelli I admired their work and devotion enormously, but I had never concealed my contempt for a certain childish vanity they displayed, and for the frequent puerility of their political intrigues. The New Machiavelli |
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