callowness
Example Sentences
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The tenderest connection may just be between Cyrano and Will Hochman’s Christian, whose callowness isn’t quite what it seems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024
It’s one of the pleasures of reading him, that for all the callowness, or cruelty, of his characters, he never extends his judgments onto us.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 21, 2016
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
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
In the far corner, he saw Bull and Colonel Hedgepath watching him, enjoying his uncertainty, his callowness.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
