Sentence examples for infant phenomenon from inspiring English sources

I was, however, very taken with The X Factor interlude starring two of Ambridge's silent characters, Molly Button, the infant phenomenon, and the sinister Nathan Booth.

Infant Phenomenon, byname of Ninetta Crummles, fictional character, a child performer who appears in the novel Nicholas Nickleby (1838 39) by Charles Dickens.

Ditto Ninetta Crummles, AKA the Infant Phenomenon, teenage member of a theatrical troupe in Nicholas Nickleby, who has been "kept up every night, and put on an unlimited allowance of gin and water from infancy, to prevent her growing tall".

The Terry parents were traveling players not unlike the Crummleses in "Nicholas Nickleby," and just as much a prodigy as that novel's "Infant Phenomenon," Ellen made her London debut at the age of 9 as Mamillius in "The Winter's Tale".

The way to fix this, I thought, was a) to place her principles in constant conflict with the reality of the small child and b) to have her attempts at a reasoned master narrative broken up by the incessant interruptions of the Infant Phenomenon.

(By "unspeakable" I mean that the word "horrible" does not convey how tedious it was, how interminably the pages of opinionating seemed to go on). The way to fix this, I thought, was a) to place her principles in constant conflict with the reality of the small child and b) to have her attempts at a reasoned master narrative broken up by the incessant interruptions of the Infant Phenomenon.

In conclusion, the current research has demonstrated another type of the uncanny valley between the face of the mother and the face of a stranger for infants, and this phenomenon appears during development.

Re "Chinese Search for Infant Formula Goes Global" (front page, July 26), about the current phenomenon of infant formula "smuggling" by Chinese parents worried about the safety of domestic formula: There is a far safer, healthier and low-cost option requiring nothing other than mother and child — breast-feeding.

The conceptual foundation of the motivational method presented here is the notion of "decentering". Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget coined the term to describe the phenomenon of infants moving beyond a state of locked-in, self-centered perception.

Crying behavior in infants is a complex phenomenon that includes spontaneous "endogenous" crying and "distress-related" crying, which can be linked to separation, hunger, or other physical distresses; therefore, several mechanisms can explain the positive effect of HBP on crying.

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