Word: childishly
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...Impulse. Their story was disconnected, in parts almost childish: they had robbed on impulse. They couldn't hold a factory job because they couldn't stand noise. Their tropic-thinned blood couldn't bear Detroit's winter. They had decided to go to Florida and open an orange-juice stand and they needed money...
...that the bourgeois social order was no longer in a position to defy the storms of the present or the gales of tomorrow. . . . The liberal age is a thing of the past. To hold the opinion that this upsurging of peoples can be met by proletarian-democratic compromises is childish...
...dancing is commonplace, the book childish; and the central character (Alfred Drake, late of Oklahoma!), a happy-go-lucky figure condemned in Puritan times to wander the roads from generation to generation, lacks the tang and sinew of a Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan. What should have been an exciting show remains, at best, a pleasant song recital...
...long chat with two close friends. She was distressed, and she said so. The friends left at 3:30 a.m. Lupe whistled for her dogs, went to her bedroom. She undressed, stepped into blue silk pajamas, sat down on her huge bed to scribble a note. In her childish scrawl she wrote: "Harald: May God forgive you and forgive me too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring in him with shame or killing...
...went to Yale after the war and was so infuriated by the childish hazing then in vogue at New Haven that he studied with his revolver on the desk before him, and fired through the door at any hazers who appeared...