The retardation of adulthood is observable in all social groups.
And, in the mass of the people, shall we ever again see that quickness of development toward adulthood which gave us the old common-law rule validating the marriage of a male at 14 and of a female at 12?
The idea of education as preparation and of adulthood as a fixed limit of growth are two sides of the same obnoxious untruth.
The business of childhood is to grow into the independence of adulthood by means of the guidance of those who have already attained it.
What, if any, effect the habitual evocation of imaginary playmates, and the elaboration of the imaginary land, may exert on character formation and habits of adjustment in adulthood is at present unknown.
Thus, becoming an independent political entity is, to most, a rite of passage, adolescence, heralding the onset of political adulthoodand geopolitical and economic maturity.
The infancy of Serbhood and theadulthood of Albanianism clashed in the same region, the prelude to the tragedy of 1999.
Doctor Marigold's training of the little deaf-mute girl and "Old Cheeseman's" treatment of children are revelations of the mature ideals of Dickens regarding the proper attitude of adulthood toward childhood.
Adulthood can never be truly free till childhood is free.
The selection clearly intimates that childhood would be more happy, and like adulthood better, if adulthoodwas not so "solemn and stiff.
This is most inconsiderate, and naturally leads to a corresponding disrespect for adulthood on the part of the child.
This short selection reveals the disrespect for childhood which leads adulthood to flatly contradict what a child says, whether he is making a statement of fact or of opinion.
The reason that coercion does not more effectively blight and dwarf the child is that childhood is not under the direct influence of adulthood all the time.
Parents and teachers should learn from Solomon's philosophy that a child's feelings toward an adult partly determine his impressions regarding the attitude of adulthood toward him.
Doctor Blimber summed up the whole philosophy of the adulthood of his time in regard to a child's education when he said to his daughter, "Bring him on, Cornelia!
Kind but thoughtless adulthood is often most grievously unjust to childhood, because it fails to consider how things appear to the child.
The lack of sympathy in adulthood is revealed for the condemnation of his readers in Mrs. Rachael's parting from Esther.
Dombey and Son is full of appeals for the tender sympathy of adulthood for childhood.
In Our Mutual Friend Betty Higden and Mrs. Boffin are given as true types of the proper spirit of adulthood toward childhood.
His adulthood had been good indeed, he told himself; and he knew that he could go on savoring his success if only he could find an inspiration to probe the ordinary as profoundly as he did the carnal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adulthood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
