Word: childishly
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Melodrama's appeal to fear, however, is essentially "childish," Bentley concluded. "The melodramatic vision is good up to a point," he said, "and that point is childhood." Nor can melodrama be separated entirely from tragedy. "There is melodrama in every tragedy, just as there is a child in every...
...Salinger touch in the tragedy that follows. Scotty begins talking of marriage in 20 or 30 years, when "the entire social structure will be changed," and a sobered Katie realizes that she does not want to be that "serious" about their friendship. The mothers become violently involved in the childish dispute, and Scotty will not rest until he goads Katie into saying that she is rejecting him for his color. Then he slaps her face. As in Peaceable Lane, death waits at the end of the story...
...Medieval. On the whole, the translation is excellent (see box). In fact, it is superior to the English original in at least one respect: Milne's occasionally cloying cuteness cannot be rendered in the sober Latin tongue. The tone of the translation is innocently serious, childlike rather than childish, and its style is graceful and frequently inspired. Milne's names and phrases take on a rich new intonation in Lenard's Latin. Heffalumpum (for Heffalump) sounds like the name of a dirty German town transliterated by Tacitus, lor (for Eeyore) might be a monster...
Relations between the United States Latin America have often been acterized by a "pile-up of unfortunate at times, almost childish accusa," Mrs. Roosevelt noted. Greater ts must therefore be made to appre the cultural differences and peculiar omic problems of the Spanish-Americans...
...Faustus that this joy and pain, this exaltation and fear of retribution, must be combined to form a character difficult if not impossible to portray on stage. James Straley does it well although he does not achieve the full childish joy Faustus finds in his power nor the full voluptuousness in his passions...