And, as in "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle", the baby-faced Ms Lawrence has been cast in a role for which she is patently too young.
And yet Chung, 25, is an interesting lesson that one should never underestimate a patently ambitious young thing, even if she does hang out with Peaches Geldof.
But the critique is vitiated by the fact that the community this society is being measured against is so patently silly (young men lose their virginity at a yearly event called "The Frolic"; women read messages from the dead by looking at tree bark), and that the main characters exist only to illustrate the various themes.
"It is patently wrong for young people to have such a poor start in life".
"The BBC has invested about £1bn over the years into something that is patently delivering a young audience and generating hit shows.
"It is patently wrong for young people to have such a poor start in life, when there is so much more we could be doing," Hilary Steedman, an economist at the London School of Economics, told Landon.
The risks of suffering concussions are patently clear, especially for younger athletes.
She has a love affair going with a good-looking young golfer who's patently too slow for her.
We are moving towards a system where teachers and heads are continually on the defensive with a curriculum and assessment framework that patently doesn't meet the needs of all young people.
10. "The hardest part is how frustrating it is to see young souls struggle so much with things that are patently, obviously, true and clear.
As much as I liked Hathaway and Franco, though, I thought it was patently ridiculous that the producers of this year's Academy Awards would aggressively seek to court younger viewers simply by hiring younger performers to host them.
