adultness

Setting that aside, Manhattan as “Elf”’s primary setting embodies a sort of gritty honesty and adultness that sets the film apart from its far mushier Hallmark contemporaries, which tend to over-dramatize love, relationships and other aspects of reality.

That short has an adultness to it.

There are parents who can maintain the adultness even in the face of the demands of a small child.

Her parents—minus the wine, the fighting, the suffocating adultness of kitchen renovations and mortgage payments—were good people.

I know, and I agree with you, that they feel a responsibility to project normal, project adultness, to reassure the country that, even when everything is bananas outside the court, that they are really not that, but how much do you think it leeches into the way they think about cases?