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He'd given up that kind of childishness a long time ago.
Sometimes a little childishness was just what the doctor ordered.
And then she was ashamed again for the childishness of the words.
There is much childishness in the old books of wisdom.
Here she was trying to act like a man again, and succeeding only in childishness.
It was all meant to restore the child in us, not the childishness.
And so he was sometimes, possibly more often than I, in my childishness, guessed.
And that's why we laugh at the childishness of Malaysia.
It's to show they all have "fire in the belly," or some such childishness.
There seemed to be nothing extraordinary about this 12-year-old apart, perhaps, from his childishness.
It is also important for incipient teachers to practice childishness.
My father caught fire at once with all the romance and childishness of his original nature.
This proceeded from a childishness upon which I must not be silent.
I will not allow childishness out of you, girl.
Some of the childishness and h8ters here really do need to get out more.
But, after a moment or two, the childishness passed.
He laughed as the childishness of the confession struck him.
I thought that one you told me about was just a little romantic childishness."
"The Japanese mass media is the essence of childishness," he added.
"If you can maintain your childishness in adult life, why get rid of it?"
Once, indeed, I was betrayed into a childishness greater than her own; it fell in this way.
I thought you'd grown out of that bit of childishness.
If you give me a bawling out it will be nothing but pure childishness.
There was a still greater obstacle in Oliver's youth and childishness.
In spite of the childishness, the pettiness-there is something there.