The Pérez is mature, a word rarely previously applied to Miami, except to its retired citizens.
As he has aged Snoop Dogg has become more of a soul man than the liquid (bordering on lethargic) rapper he started out as. Backed by a band, his set was like an R&B revue — slick, cocksure and mature (a word not often associated with Snoop Dogg).
"It's Not Me, It's You," though, is a stronger and more coherent record than her début, though it's not necessarily more "mature," a word that floats around every time a young musician manages to make a good second record.
In other words, we can't carry on a "mature discussion" of secrets without divulging what secrets we are discussing.
"We could use the word mature," she said.
Mature is the word her label has tacked onto it.
That word "mature" brings you up short, to stimulating effect.
(There's something deeply unpleasant, something sadistic, in the way Franzen repeatedly ridicules the mother's pretentious pronunciation of the word "mature" — "matoor").
Mature is the word in the trade for fairs like the Winter Antiques Show, though time-honored, even venerable, would be closer to the mark.
Some analysts used the dreaded word mature to describe Facebook's penetration in North America, and others noted that user growth was slowing.
