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Example sentences for "puerility"

Lexicographically close words:
puellam; puer; pueri; puerile; puerilities; pueris; puero; pueros; puerperal; puertas
  1. The style adopted exhibits a very marked Euphuism, and the whole form of narrative is characterized by that fondness for petty conceit which not seldom gives an air of puerility to the lighter Elizabethan prose.

  2. The verse is of the homeliest; indeed it is only a rollicking indifference to its own inanity that saves it from sheer puerility and gives it a careless and as it were impromptu charm of its own.

  3. But again, let us not forget that those days were more deeply stained than ours with puerility and cruelty and spite.

  4. More, it is true, rose above the puerility of his time; Erasmus rose above both its cruelty and its puerility; Henry rose above neither.

  5. There was a childishness, a puerility about it that made the men smile.

  6. Imagine Her impression, and weigh that against the puerility of hair.

  7. The puerility of garb and ceremonial was lost in the significance of the result.

  8. Here is the puerility of a genius of the first order!

  9. The fathers were perfect children in their ridiculous allegories, and they allegorised the Old Testament throughout; and assuredly the Rabbins did not yield in puerility to the fathers.

  10. The mere lovers of antiquity endured the raillery of the wits for the puerility of the plot, the vulgar humour, and the homeliness of the style.

  11. There is not the universal passion for a magnified puerility among them it is customary to assume.

  12. I admired their work and devotion enormously, but I had never concealed my contempt for a certain childish vanity they displayed, and for the frequent puerility of their political intrigues.

  13. At once feeble and violent, he unites with very ardent passions a deplorable puerility of mind; incapable of serious thought, the merest trivialities move him to fever heat, and he talks childish prattle with all the gestures of great passion.

  14. In strong contrast with the puerility of these proceedings, is the grave and lofty "Letter to Lord Ellenborough", composed at Lynmouth, and printed at Barnstaple.

  15. This infant, like the infants of Michael Angelo, and of what we possess of the ancients, teems with the man, but without that sacrifice of puerility observable in them.

  16. The latter was a complement of the former; more heavy, but by virtue of its weight adapted to that class of people, everywhere abundant, who suspect either danger or puerility in every earnest sentence.

  17. The puerility of the freethinkers consists in believing that a free society can maintain itself and keep itself together without a common faith, without a religious prejudice of some kind.

  18. In short, his passion is grandeur, his fault is excess; his distinguishing mark is a kind of Titanic power with strange dissonances of puerility in its magnificence.

  19. Those weird tales which to us are puerility or poetry, according as we please to regard them, were to their believers history, science, and religion.

  20. In strong contrast with the puerility of these proceedings, is the grave and lofty Letter to Lord Ellenborough, composed at Lynmouth, and printed at Barnstaple.

  21. The puerility of Oriental science in all its departments, the prevalence of superstition even among the cultivated, the lack of historical insight and interpretation of history are adduced as conclusive evidences of this view.


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    Other words:
    childishness; immaturity; imprudence; inattention; indiscretion; infantilism; irrationality; puerility; recklessness; stuffiness; thoughtlessness; unreason; unreasonableness