Sentence examples for a performance of adulthood from inspiring English sources

Janne Scheffels, a Norwegian researcher, argued recently that teenage girl smokers view it as a kind of "prop" in a performance of adulthood, a way of crossing the boundary between childhood and adolescence, and moving away from parents' authority.

I'M not sure if most parents who have children on the cusp of adulthood would willingly subject themselves to a performance of "Hair," where other children on the cusp of adulthood jump off the stage, run sweatily around the Broadway theater and dance in the faces of those unfortunate enough to have aisle seats.

It was tedious, and yet you had to indulge them, because you could see how much they enjoyed it, this performance of adulthood.

There comes a time in all our lives when we mishandle money in such an momentous way, it becomes part of us a defining feature of our ongoing, precarious performance of adulthood.

In many ways, as Richard Brody wrote recently over on The Front Row, "Girls" is a performance of one self-absorbed young person's initiation into maturity and adulthood.

Of the three, Moe was the scowling leader — a caricature of adulthood.

Traditionally in the U.S., a mark of adulthood is owning a car.

Introduction: Congenital cardiac disease is increasingly a disease of adulthood - 90%% of patients live beyond adolescence.

But is that really a mark of adulthood?

Receiving your own mail is a sign of adulthood.

(A ) Chemotaxis performance of wild-type worms from young adulthood (day 1) through early stage aging (day 6) towards a point source of medium BZ. (B ) Speed of wild-type young (day 1) and aged (day 5) adult animals chemotaxing towards a point source of BZ odor.