Word: childishly
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...Against Pity. Colette's characters are sensitive to pain, but because they live according to the laws of what Chaucer calls "Merciles Beaute," they can never expect pity. The queen herself had so ordained it. "Suffering," said Colette, "is perhaps a childish business . . . It is very painful . . . But I am afraid [it] deserves no consideration whatsoever...
...Eternal Smile & Other Stories, by Par Lagerkvist. A fine collection of stories and fables from the inventive mind of the Swedish Nobel Prizewinner, ranging from childish charm to ghostlike horror (TIME. June...
...Eternal Smile & Other Stories, by Par Lagerkvist. A fine collection of stories and fables from the inventive mind of the Swedish Nobel Prizewinner, ranging from childish charm to ghostlike horror (TIME, June...
...nation's apathy in regard to the Army-McCarthy hearings. People who say that the hearings are a burlesque of trials may be entirely correct, but they cannot deny the fact that persons representing us are responsible for the presentation of this burlesque; we should not ignore the childish squabbles of our Government any more than we should ignore its mature actions...
...last night's meeting "just to find out what it was all about," but later refused to accept the petition. One commented, " I was flattered at having someone nominate me and wanted to see who it was." Others, when informed of the petition, said they thought "it was childish" and that they were "sick of Balzotti's asinine ideas...