infantile

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• I think it’s partly because the audience for a lot of that stuff is kids – and the culture in general is a bit infantile in this era.

• The idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return is literally infantile.

• The United States got an F — and soon 550,000 dead — because the ignorant or infantile among us, wanting what they wanted when they wanted it, defeated the nation’s adults.

• The seeds of future nightmares may be planted early in life, during what’s known as the “infantile amnesia” period, which lasts from birth to about age three and a half, and is a time of life during which virtually no enduring memories are formed.

• At one point, Valle offered an apology to anybody who had been “hurt, shocked or offended by my infantile actions.”

• It was sweet and funny and self-deprecating, nothing like the infantile behavior she had just displayed.

• It's how we project our own catastrophe of infantile adulthood.

• He led her by the hand, and confided to her infantile spirit all his thoughts, his illusions, his day-dreams.

• The Scherzo is neither good nor bad; the trio is so innocent that it would be almost too infantile for a Sniegourotchka.

• He listened and heard soft breathing that stopped just short of being an infantile snore.

• She was apparently about six years of age, and the picture of innocence and loveliness.