childishness

Example Sentences

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In 1994, Amos talked about the "healing properties" of the color pink, which we might at first associate with softness, with childishness, femininity and with love.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

Resigned to the privileged childishness of her dominant lover, the narrator comes to a clearer understanding of her own human fallibility.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

If you knew what lovely neighbors they are, I think you might regret your childishness.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2022

Climbing on all fours over a daybed, the eloquent, lyrical bass Matthew Rose conveys in an instant the essential childishness of Wotan, the king of the gods.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2021

Thanks to my constitutional childishness, they have always sounded to me like the names by which the Three Musketeers really should have been known: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith