Sentence examples for pretty childish from inspiring English sources

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But then as you grow up you think, well that's pretty childish and daft.

I'd be pretty childish to give up something I've been working for since I was 5 years old".

At his investiture into the Royal Spanish Academy in 2008, he confessed that the work of the novelist was "pretty childish", a teasing line of thought derived from Robert Louis Stevenson.

In the letter, he wrote: "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish".

A letter Einstein wrote in 1954 to Eric Gutkind, a German philosopher, in which he described the Bible as "pretty childish" and scoffed at the notion that the Jews could be a chosen people, sold for $404,000 at an auction in London.

A letter the physicist wrote in 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, in which he described the Bible as "pretty childish" and scoffed at the notion that the Jews could be a "chosen people," sold for $404,000 at an auction in London.

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The Marni show on Friday was pretty, with childish colors and posy prints mixed with funky khaki trousers, Carnaby stripes and silver sequined cardigans, but its artsy-craftsy style seems a bit threadbare right now.

Featuring headliners like the Foo Fighters, Outkast, and Jack Johnson, and other incredible artists like Imagine Dragons, Beck, the Lumineers, Pretty Lights, Childish Gambino, Tegan and Sara, and Girl Talk, Firefly offers something for everyone.

"I pretty much dislike childish behaviour.

It all seems pretty dumb and childish in hindsight.

The other was childlike and dull but very pretty in a perishable childish way.' Although not named, Hemingway almost certainly meant two Dutch/Polish/Jewish sisters, Bronia and Tilya Perlmutter, although neither modelled regularly for Pascin, if ever.

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