Sentence examples for childish expectation from inspiring English sources
Athletes illuminate our imagination and raise our hopes for ourselves to such an extent that we often want the best of them to become models for us in every area of life — an unfair and childish expectation.
And in the summer of 1965, when the Beatles came to play nearby Shea Stadium (where, in the spring of 1964, I had seen the second baseball game the Mets ever played there), I camped out at the window all day in the childish expectation of seeing them pass by — something I'd never have done for any of the other rockers I loved.
It is childish to expect this imaginary friend, the ideal reader, to be embodied in another person, perhaps especially in another writer, whose expectations are comparably — which doesn't mean compatibly — childish.
We are boorish, childish passengers with outrageous expectations, self-important, ill behaved, underdressed, overpacked and sublimely oblivious to the fact that a jumbo jet was never intended as a high-altitude dinner theater.
Expectations and reactions to 'tall-for-age' children's (what may seem childish) behavior can in turn affect children's development.
The expectation that the mayor could predict the exact behavior of a storm throughout this topographically complex region is as childish as the expectation of infants that mother can always make everything right.
"She did something childish.
Possibly childish egoism".
