"We're in the adulthood of the Reagan youth.
We see incidents from the childhood, adolescence and adulthood of father and son.
Why, you might wonder, are newspapers speculating about the fictional adulthood of a fictional child?
A lot of her friends in the film are very much play acting a version of adulthood, of maturity.
Adam Bede (1859) was based on the young adulthood of her father, her uncle and her uncle's wife.
Numerous Conservative and Reform congregations have instituted a separate ceremony to mark the adulthood of girls, called Bat Mitzvah.
The holiday, which celebrates the passage to adulthood of the country's 20-year-olds, is the modern interpretation of an old tradition.
And as it jumps forward toward the adulthood of its narrator, the new Ms. Rice steers the story toward passions that the old Ms. Rice understood.
From the start, Nat recognized violence in response to an unjust system as a cardinal virtue, and as a part of his very image of adulthood, of manhood.
Despite a young adulthood of professional success, I remained convinced, whenever a man rejected me, it was because I couldn't slither into a size two.
"I said I'm sorry," Knott writes at the close of the poem, his tone suggesting the gnawing persistence, in adulthood, of internalized childhood corrections and reprimands.
