Now, at 32, Alice hopes she's set such childish notions aside.
The childish notion that we are able to think has been mankind's costliest error.
It was more than time to put away childish notions, to settle into the serious business of life.
I should like to know whether there ever passed such childish notions in the hearts of other men as sometimes do in mine.
A little reading and even less common sense had brought that childish notion sharply into focus.
It does not refer to naive anthropomorphism, to childish notions of a kind of finite Person resident somewhere.
On second thought, it was a childish notion, and would clearly have demeaned his enemies, along with Jack himself.
No doubt you have some childish romantic notion of Banishment, of making a life for yourself outside the City.
Will you get off of that childish notion, once and for all?!
I find the notion childish and crude.