Sentence examples for schoolboy behaviour from inspiring English sources
A new tone, and no tolerance of schoolboy behaviour, would do much to improve parliament's reputation.
Lots of naughty schoolboy behaviour, cheeky comments about the models and whistling when the PRs try and shut them up.
But he isn't suggesting that the seven ages of man are predetermined by a higher power; rather, that a complacent society has fallen into a prescribed pattern of behaviour, from schoolboy to the seventh decrepit age.
Lord of the Flies, in which William Golding saw British society of the 1950s – outwardly decorous but red in tooth and claw – through the behaviour of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island has been adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams, and directed by Sheader.
Among Lüneburg's town records, he found reports on antisocial behaviour of two schoolboys in a local hostelry – "thoroughly drunk and … slashing … with [their] dirks and hunting knives".
"Peyote is a grade one, class A drug," he tells us, and you can almost sense the mischievous public schoolboy in him revelling in the fact that he's smuggled such illicit behaviour on to primetime ITV.
Campbell starts to unwind a well rehearsed speech about the mendacity and negativity of so much political coverage, and Cameron focuses and is in the process of saying that he does think that newspaper behaviour has got even worse, when suddenly he catches his breath and freezes, like a schoolboy spotted by the teacher, as Rupert materialises at his shoulder, smiling.
It was a schoolboy prank, retaliating for another schoolboy prank.
Part of the schoolboy's training was a commitment to arduous physical activity, and, by the late 19th century, rugby and cricket had become the leading sports that developed the "civilized" manly behaviour of the elite.
