infantine
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Still, is it possible to write about unimaginable cruelty with the infantine levity of a jigsaw puzzle?
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2019
This infantine note be-132-longs to the cloister and the pulpit.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
With such infantine graces as a total want of observation, memory, understanding, and interest, and an eternal disposition to fall asleep over the fire and into it, Mr. Smallweed’s grandmother has undoubtedly brightened the family.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
I am afraid that, for you, the season will have no great animation; but you will, I suppose, see a good deal of infantine exhilaration about you....
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
It will be a long time before the infantine public are brought round to Walt Whitman's views on versification.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
