Sentence examples for rather adolescent from inspiring English sources
In effect, what you described in your rather adolescent attack on Britain is not the changing nature of that nation but the changing nature of the world.Mark Wittgenstein Winston-Salem, North CarolinaPolitics in Kuwait*SIR – The struggle that Kuwait faces in making its democracy function effectively is present in many states in the region ("It's hard to create a democracy", May 23rd).
Justin Carter had issued a rather adolescent retort to a friend's insult: 'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head.
According to James Martin Harding, the play is "based on a plot about a woman who 'is a man-hating hustler and panhandler' and who ... ends up killing a man" and is more a "provocation than ... a work of dramatic literature" and "rather adolescent and contrived".
Blackwell et al. (2007) showed that simply learning skills alone was not enough to create a new pattern of behavior; rather, adolescents needed the motivation to put the skills into practice.
WHEN Tony Blair is rattled or embarrassed, he resorts to jeering in a rather horrid, adolescent way.
In fact, reading it is like listening to a monologue from a bright, argumentative, rather insecure adolescent.
Trillian and Fenchurch, the only significant female characters, are almost as two-dimensional as Random, Arthur's rather clichéd adolescent daughter, who shows up in the final novel.
The narrator, after all, is neither Oates nor even a plausible Oates surrogate, but rather an adolescent boy whose baby sister was brutally murdered by persons unknown.
Rather than adolescent mumbling about a common foreign and security policy, a "grown up" EU should be able to say "no thank you, but close relations" to Turkey.
What she found is fragonia, a little-used oil from western Australia that's from the same family as tea tree oil and is equally effective at knocking out bacteria but smells like rich aunt rather than adolescent male.
Since the late 1990s a surge of new books on the Founding Fathers, several of which have enjoyed surprising commercial and critical success, has begun to break free of the hyperbolic pattern and generate an adult rather than adolescent conversation in which a sense of irony and paradox replaces the old moralistic categories.
