I keep meeting my juvenile self in forgotten states and discarded guises: sitting in a cricket pavilion on a wet summer's afternoon with The Code of the Woosters; roaming Dorset on a bicycle, aged 15, with Jude The Obscure, or was it The Mayor of Casterbridge?
The plush carpets, constant central heating, plentiful food and regression back to your sleepy juvenile self means that if you don't like a programme, just close your eyes and dream of a white Christmas.
There is also something indecent about it, something juvenile, self-righteous, arrogant and stupid.
But they are also given to the most juvenile self-importance, to sulking, squabbling, teasing and talking big about girls who elude them.
The first hint of a more critical response comes when a gentleman, unfamiliar to Jane, bursts belatedly into one of her readings and later scorns her effort for its "juvenile self-regard".
Following Japan's surrender, the allied occupiers ended the practice, appalled by its demands for juvenile self-sacrifice in the name of the emperor.The paradox is that Japan does need serious education reform.
Whereas Finkelstein's study is exhaustively researched and footnoted, and has been written in a precise and judicious style, Bartov dismisses the book as "a novel variation on... 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' "and, moreover, as "indecent... juvenile, self-righteous, arrogant and stupid".
One Wall Street-based GOP fundraiser referred to Trump as "an immature, juvenile, self-indulgent narcissist" who "wants to win but as an adolescent has no impulse control".
Many species undergo a juvenile self-supporting phase when the plant habit and stem stiffness are indistinguishable from those of shrubs or even trees of similar stature (Rowe and Speck, 2004; Gallenmüller et al., 2004).
It is not, whatever you might read over the coming days, just in England where the game can feel so tawdry and juvenile and downright self-defeating.
They know they're supposed to hate her, so anything she does inspires juvenile sneers and self-righteous displays of horror - including a visit to a farm where some people earn their living raising and killing livestock.
