Sentence examples for childish obsession from inspiring English sources

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Little did I know that my childish obsession would develop into a lifelong admiration of La Streisand.

What it does to a person to be told they are very smart when they know, objectively, that they are mostly/in all important ways very dumb (by this time I'd already fallen for several gays and dropped out of high school), is unwrap a latent, childish obsession of definition: how smart am I compared to this, how dumb am I compared to that; what is smart, what am me.

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Let's also not forget Trump's ludicrous feud with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, his childish obsessions with voter fraud and crowd size at his inauguration, his failure to mention 6 million Jews when saluting International Holocaust Remembrance Day and still, the never-ending tweets.

Never is the urge to grow up and shake off childish sports obsessions more pressing than after a heartbreaking loss; never does an era of reason and equanimity seem so close at hand.

They are mostly boosts to group morale, childish song festivals, obsessions with the media and desperate attempts to cause a genteel nuisance without breaching the law.

In 1986, an especially provocative Beijing writer declared the obsession with the Nobel "childish".

One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.

However, while iOS 7 is beautiful, it seems to have introduced an obsession with colour and flatness that stunts its successor, soemtimes giving the phone a childish feel.

Childish, even.

And childish.

Obsession: Minigadgets.

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