Word: childishly
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...crossing the Red Sea between towering walls of water, is quite impressive. But spectacle of this kind is a species of theatrical trickery that, on the whole, detracts from what the picture ought to be doing-exploring a peoples' relationship with their God. And then, too, it expresses the childish assumption that anything big and shiny is somehow meaningful...
...Childish Idealism. The Netherlands' Olympic Chairman Johannes Linthorst Homan sadly replied: "In our optimism and our perhaps childish idealism we kept hoping that goodness would be recognized and that our playing the game could contribute to the establishment of a certain understanding . . . When the radio told us of what overcame Budapest through a cynical violation of all that is sacred to men, I wondered if going to Melbourne could have any sense. We are sportsmen, but we are not soft in the head, are we?'' The Netherlands' Olympic Committee answered that question by withdrawing from...
...Having to register a girl like a dog as if you had to procure a license for her is damned embarrassing and childish...
...students' organization and brawled with young Nazis. When the call-up for World War II carne in 1939, he talked himself out of the infantry ("Because I don't like walking") and into the artillery. He was almost court-martialed for calling his uniform a Klufterl (a childish masquerade). But he served in Poland, France, Russia, and at the Battle of Stalingrad he led his platoon out of encirclement, fighting a rearguard action for 50 miles...
...would be pored over for years to come, that he scarcely ever dashed off a hasty or unconsidered line. Even letters that were never intended to be sent were rewritten, annotated, polished. This bulky volume of his Letters is the record of a man's life, from the childish scrawl of an eight-year-old ("It has been raining here for two or three days") to the moving, final word of a dying man of 37 who has a "hunch" that the end is near...