Sentence examples for childish play from inspiring English sources

Ms. Osipova and Vyacheslav Lopatin both look enchantingly teenage as Swanilda and Frantz; the element of childish play in the characters becomes real.

There's the king, a gifted, elfin youth who corresponds with Voltaire but who, as Struensee consolidates his power, increasingly spends his time spewing anxious gibberish and escaping into childish play with his pet schnauzer and his African page, Moranti.

Yet they were of a different kind The names that stilled your childish play They have gone about the world like wind But little time had they to pray, For whom the hangman's rope was spun, And what, God help us, could they save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

It is dangerous to associate imagination only with childish play and fancy, while excluding it from goal-directed activity.

Their parents tried to make them stop, considering them too old for such childish play, so they continued in secret.

"To me, that's just really childish, playing like doctors and nurses.

The childish beast played happily, without much complication.

Politics today is no more than a childish game played out by a small and introverted political class, largely ignored by a cynical and alienated electorate except when it throws up some titillating scandal".

Aaron Sorkin's screenplay for "The Social Network" doesn't directly address the ramifications of the Facebook phenomenon, but it can give you the creeps when you consider that Facebook facilitates childish game playing, deception and adopting multiple identities, as does "Inception".

Again, I realized I needed help, and like the wedding, would have felt cheated if I had had to skip that part, despite my qualms about the ritual; all that faux excitement over kitchen gadgets and the childish game-playing was, like ballrooms and crinoline, not my style.

As always, the sports pages had plenty (examples: Load of Drips, Ryders on the Storm, Don't be Crool and Matty's ready to Rool - how many Rooney puns can there be?) But it was the proliferation of childish word-play on the news pages that should give the editor, Dominic Mohan, pause for thought.