Sentence examples for so infantile from inspiring English sources

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Because they're so infantile.

Is the horribleness because it sounds so infantile?

The movie is so infantile that it achieves a special kind of purity and gentleness.

So infantile is the second Mrs De Winter that we can hardly stand her in prose or on celluloid.

As it is inconceivable that any party would be so infantile as to use such antics to deliberately frustrate the democratic process... council recommend that the said party undertake an intensive training course to teach its councillors how to press the 'Yes' button when they agree with a motion, and the 'No' button when they don't". Quite.

Maybe his spoiled-baby face was just too nearly perfect for the role, and he knew it, and knew the hostile humor that lay behind Mankiewicz's putting so much of him in the role of Hearst the braggart self-publicist and making Kane so infantile.

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She seems so disconcertingly infantile.

It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood".

There is plenty of time for rugby to be threatened anew by the more tries = more entertainment equation, a construct so pathetically infantile that by comparison, the weekly bunfight at Prime Minister's Questions seems positively grown-up.

Sigmund Freud, in Civilization and Its Discontents, says of religion, "The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life".

read more Peter Bradshaw said: Somewhere in the dark heartland of America there is a great yearning for these quirky-icky fables … Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton play Cindy and Jim Green, a couple longing for kids, but infertile … There is something so glutinous, infantile and regressive about this film.

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