Sentence examples for yet childish from inspiring English sources

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Meanwhile the boastful, lanky-limbed teenage soldier Kadogo (Thuso Lekwape) is portrayed as callously cruel yet childish.

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His enormous appetites -- for food, for sex and for money -- were all pursued to prove how free he was, and yet how childish he could be.

I want to explore different characters - if that's the difference between being an actress and a movie star, well I definitely want to be an actress thank you very much.' There's an appealing determination to Knightley, that makes her both seem both mature yet endearingly childish at the same time.

Most of the film is in black-and-white, with sharply clipped and unshaded images; there is no denying their clarity and wit, yet the childish simplicity — like the general inexpressiveness of the faces — eventually pales, not least as Marjane leaves her own childhood behind.

Blakeley, who totally won my heart with her earnest yet slightly childish Ben-themed scrapbook, was sent home... and there was another exit in the offing.

Yet she encourages his childish behavior.

Yet there is nothing childish about his musicianship.

I suspect he is too childish, and yet that might be a red herring.

A teenager, full of hormones and new desires, is between two worlds: reckless while timid, childish and yet worldly.

Surely there are those among us with the means to reclaim flashier pre-recession behaviors — back before the president called upon us to "set aside childish things" — yet remain squeamish about doing so.

Childish – and yet how much you yearn for the approval of that little green light, leaving the house late at night to take several turns around the block and several more around the kitchen until the target has been reached.

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