Sentence examples for which grown from inspiring English sources

That makes him a great figurehead for a land in which grown men and women use the flimsiest of historic pretexts to do things like chasing cheeses downhill or charming the worms from the ground with song.

Too bad all wars can't be as benign and ridiculous as "Junkyard Mega-Wars," a two-hour special on Sunday on the Learning Channel in which grown men from three countries try to turn trash into transportation.

Earlier, he had told me about the array of psychological voice ailments, ranging from self-induced hoarseness and laryngitis to "puberphonia," a condition in which grown men speak at an artificially high pitch; the syndrome is sometimes psychological, brought on by fear of the voice changes of adolescence.

For all McKee's gloom, and his love of stories in which grown men cry (the category includes "Casablanca," "Tender Mercies," and his own unwritten novel), he is driven by a kind of melancholy optimism: "Hopefully, you can live in a way so that you can die with the notion that, on balance, the sense of achievement outweighs the regret".

He is appalled by the "kidult" culture at Sugar Ape, in which grown men and women ride around the office on tiny plastic tractors made for two-year-olds and the writers sit around all day playing Nathan Barley's website handgame.

In which grown men can dream like little boys, purchase paper "comical books" from boxes, dress up like Batman, maybe meet a nice girl.

Which "grown-up" books are suitable for young readers?

Imagine, then, their pleasure at discovering a profession in which grown-ups not only go barefoot and wear funny clothes, but also run, twirl and leap with abandon.

But flaws uncovered by Greece's fiscal jam seem more likely to entrench a two-class system in which "grown-ups," led by Germany, exert ever more control over wayward "children" like Greece.

You could stretch the Oz analogy to include "Avenue Q," the bouncy, smarty-pants show in which grown-up variations of the Muppets, seeking their destinies in a shabbier enclave of the Emerald City, sing humorous common-sense ditties about racism, sexual identity, pornography, schadenfreude and other buzzword topics.

"WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF DANCE," a performance for children tomorrow at 3 p.m. by Daniel Gwirtzman and his modern dance company in which grown-ups not only go barefoot and wear funny clothes but also run, twirl and leap with abandon.