Sentence examples for is adulthood from inspiring English sources
noun
The time of life when one is expected to take responsibility for one's own actions and well-being.
- The boy entered adulthood by undergoing a rite of passage.
In Apatow, the enemy is adulthood, which ruins life; in Phillips, the enemy is women, who ruin men.
None of them are legally married or have kids, and this book is also meant to be a homage to a different kind of adulthood, one that isn't often celebrated in fiction, but which is adulthood nonetheless.
Which is ironic, perhaps, given Pascoe's line about being a grownup: "What is adulthood but prison for children who didn't die?" So a female-free best-gag shortlist, in this year of all years, is more than just an own goal for Dave.
His films are a continuous revelation of the elaborate deception that is adulthood, and in his greatest works (not here, but in later movies like "Oh, Mr. Porter!" and "Where's That Fire?" — both directed by Marcel Varnel — there is a drunken delight in the breakdown of order that is about as far from PBS's imperial view of Britain as it is possible to get.
It is adulthood that peels off the layer upon layer of innocence from childhood.
It was adulthood I was tasting, and love.
So no matter what your thoughts towards millennials are, adulthood is officially delayed with no signs of it reverting back to 1960s standards.
The Haight was adolescence and the TL was adulthood.
I mean, really, it's adulthood that's hard AF, but they don't know that yet.
In my mind, when we started calling it "The Dark World," it wasn't just elves -- it was adulthood [that] is the Dark World.
