callowness
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Takatsuki struggles to suppress his youthful callowness and self-destructive temper, and in Okada’s sensitive performance, we see an alarming vision of another encroaching tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
Both these characters, force-marched into maturity by the reckless adults in their lives, were pitiable, but Eisenberg made room to explore their callowness and unpleasantness, too.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2016
“I am ashamed of callowness as a scientist. I had just been dreaming to be a scientist who makes contribution to the development of human society.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 29, 2016
It has an aura of the best kind of earnest conversation that kept you up all night in your early adulthood — but it transcends that potential callowness with its Keatsian sense of impending mortality.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2016
Aside from callowness, what is this man’s problem?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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