Word: schoolboyish
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...Rudd is a brazen striver. In the past, Australians deducted points from a candidate for grandiosity. In Rudd's case, there's a schoolboyish transparency about his cheerful ambition to be best in show. Times have also changed. Putting yourself out there is what people do in a networked society, and this has helped Rudd. In his first speech to Parliament on Remembrance Day 1998, the member for Griffith began: "Politics is about power." For those listening in the House that day, Rudd spoke about political philosophy, the role of the state, the great policy challenges facing the nation...
...have the author's subtle wit and love of wordplay on display again, even in small doses. And the book on beasts will be of special interest to the faithful because it purports to be a facsimile of a copy actually owned by Harry Potter and bearing his schoolboyish annotations. When, for example, the author promises "A Brief History of Muggle Awareness of Fantastic Beasts," Harry circles "Brief" and scrawls "you liar." No wonder so many readers love this...
...less attractive aspect of the President's new decisiveness is his obsession with secrecy. There is an aura of scary smugness about Bush these days, a schoolboyish delight in saying, as he did to reporters about the Malta summit, "I knew something you didn't." Secrecy obviously is necessary in planning something like a Panama invasion. But Bush and his confidants have on occasion carried it to the point of deliberately misleading Congress and the public -- not to mention ranking members of their own Administration -- as with the supposed ban on high-level political talks with the Chinese...
Without Hedda on stage, these characters seem to sink into ridiculousness. The passionate pleas of Frost's lovelorn Lovborg seem almost schoolboyish. Judge Brack, played by Nestor Davidson, fares little better. As the insidiously corrupt Brack, Davidson plays up his character with a tad too much joviality. His tendency to toss lines off with Wildean abandon serves only to mar the gravity of his character...
Katt is another matter. Several years ago he brought school-boyish charm to the role of an inept superhero in the short-lived television series The Greatest American Hero. In House, he plays the part of an angst-ridden Vietnam vet with the same schoolboyish charm and humor. Unfortunately, angst and schoolboy don't go well together...