youngness

Ranging across the decades, he describes his childhood — “the last vestiges of youngness and dumbness” — along with all he’s been told about his parents’ storied past and the horrible truth he learned only later.

His youngness and single-mindedness were obvious enough, but perhaps his general demeanor altogether lacked, or had too little of, that sort of cute solemnity that many adults readily speak up, or down, to.

Chris ponders, late in the film “the far-off youngness” of her life, but seems to gain strength from adversity, determined not to let herself be shaped by pain.

For she knew that his eyes would gaze upon and desire all the beauty and the youngness of the world.

Southey, with a practical old aunt to look sharply after his youngness, is quickly driven from his Arcadian feeding ground and for the present disappears.