He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.

Satan had been very much perturbed when he saw that the prayers of the children reached God, who took more delight in the childish songs from their pure hearts than in the hymns of the Levites in the Temple in Jerusalem ; and it was for this reason that Satan tried to put a stop to Besht ’ s training the children in prayers and taking them to synagogue.

He is composed of various elements Dreamfinder found in his travels including two tiny wings, large yellow eyes, the horns of a steer ( or dilemma, according to a 1983 appearance on the Today Show ), a crocodile's snout, and the childish delight found at a birthday party.

The school board has already admitted her back in, and this fact prompts Buffy to take the mature stance regarding her reinstatement, and Mrs. Summers to take a childish approach to express her delight.

He wiped his lips with a sleeve, then stared at Clayton in a childish kind of wonder.

hot-colored verbenas in the corner between the dining-room wall and the side porch, where we passed on our way to the pump with the half-gourd tied to it as a cup by my grandmother for our childish pleasure in drinking from it.

He had lived for almost thirty years in this same stone farmhouse with the same wife, a remarkably childish thing in itself ; ;

It is quite probable, however, that stupidity, inexperience and childish adherence to slogans like `` unconditional surrender '' had more to do with the unsatisfactory settlements at the end of the war than treason or sympathy with Communism.

Their Fall was thus not a full-blown rebellion but rather a childish spat, a desire to grow up before their time and have everything with immediacy.

What they have in common is the ridicule with which their attempts are viewed, the imagery that suggests that they are motivated largely by animal passion, the childish behavior, and the reversion to the love-language of their youth.

All the same, the story could have been an admirable minor work in the tradition of Dracula, if only the author, or somebody, had not insisted on encumbering it with the year's most childish set of " scientific " rationalizations.

He has often been compared unfavourably with his contemporary, Pindar, as " a kind of Boccherini to Pindar's Haydn ", yet the differences in their styles doesn't allow for easy comparison and " to blame Bacchylides for not being Pindar is as childish a judgement as to condemn ... Marvel for missing the grandeur of Milton.

* Mr. Dick ( Richard Babley ) – A slightly deranged, rather childish but amiable man who lives with Betsey Trotwood ; they are distant relatives.

Russell W. Belk mentions the money bin in Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth, where he remarks that Scrooge's " childish fascination with money ", where he takes pleasure in diving and swimming in the money bin, might account for Scrooge not being portrayed as a villain.

This change can be traced in painting: In the Middle Ages, children were portrayed in art as miniature adults with no childish characteristics.

In most games these companions are invulnerable and players will generally not concern with the non-playable characters ' fate, but Ico creates the sense of " trust and childish fragility " around Yorda, and that these leads to the character being " the game ’ s entire focus ".

Beat Happening were early leaders in the American indie pop and lo-fi movements, noted for their use of primitive recording techniques, disregard for the technical aspects of musicianship, and songs with subject matters of a childish or coy nature.

The chronicler Nicetas Choniates dismissed Alexios as " childish " and criticized his familiarity with the Crusaders and his lavish lifestyle.

Beat Happening were early leaders in the American indie rock and lo-fi movements, noted for their use of primitive recording techniques, disregard for the technical aspects of musicianship, and songs with subject matters of a childish or coy nature.

Ma's prejudice about American Indians, and Laura's childish feelings, are shown side by side with the portrayal of the Osage tribe that lives on and owns that land.

When a kitchen servant got dirt on the kobold Hödekin and sprayed him with water each time he appeared, Hödekin asked that the boy be punished, but the steward dismissed the behaviour as a childish prank.

Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states, “ the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled with “ a flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn ’ t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”

Edwards was a coach with a strong record, but he also imposed strict standards of obedience, behaviour and dress on the triallists which many of them found childish.

Sticking one's tongue out at someone is considered a childish gesture of rudeness and / or defiance in many countries ; the act may also have sexual connotations, depending on the way in which it is done.

In 1951, Donald Winnicott presented his theory of transitional objects and phenomena, according to which childish actions like thumb sucking and objects like cuddly toys are the source of manifold adult behavior, amongst many others fetishism.

In 1943 he was fired by the Federated Press for his anti-war position, which Managing Editor Carl Haessler criticized as " childish.

Nearing remained a regular contributor to the Federated Press ( controlled by the Communist Party for most of its existence ) until 1943, when he was fired for his anti-war position, which Federated Press editor Carl Haessler characterized as " childish.

Colfer describes characteristics of pixies as having abnormally childish features and larger heads than other types of Fairies, with large but vulnerable brains ( their cranial mass is thin, which makes them easy to knock out ).

He was once in the Army and claims to have studied aerial photography during the Gulf War, and to have received a Purple Heart in combat, which is in complete contrast with his generally childish attitude.

Swiper's motive for theft is patently childish ; he never seems actually to want the object he takes, since he almost immediately throws it away to hide it from Dora, which prompts her to ask the audience to help her find it.

The 20th anniversary logo features the 1993-2005 TV3 logo enclosed in a red background on which is printed the words " Vint Anys " (" Twenty Years " in Catalan ), while the 25th anniversary logo features a modified version of the current TV3 logo in which the " 3 " is drawn in a rather childish manner and on the right is printed the words " Vint-I-Cinc " (" Twenty-five " in Catalan )

The first use of this gag by Keane was in This Week magazine in 1962 in a cartoon titled " Life in Our House " which attributed the childish drawings to his six-year-old son, Chris.

Dr. Susan Calvin has, by this time, discovered what has happened: any hyperspace jump causes the crew of the ship to cease existing for a brief moment, effectively dying, which is a violation of the First Law of Robotics ( albeit a temporary one ), and this frightens the artificial intelligence of The Brain into irrational, childish behavior as a means of coping, and a means for ensuring the survival of the crew.

He thus acts out our most childish rages and desires, in which we seek to gratify ourselves at all cost.

The boy said that he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called “ muggles ,” a childish name for marijuana.

Mahler began his Fourth in a mode of apparently childish simplicity, at which initial audiences scoffed.

The title of the film generated attention in the United Kingdom due to the usage of the word Willy, which is common, childish slang for penis.

A combination of wistfulness, radiance, and yearning that set her apart and made everyone wish to be part of it-to share in the childish naivete which was at once so shy and yet so vibrant.

There was a game called " creag ," and another game, " Handyn and Handoute " ( Hands In and Hands Out ), which was made illegal in 1477 by King Edward IV, who considered the game childish, and a distraction from compulsory archery practice.

Motor Sport reported: " For their first 24-hour race the basic organization was good, but the various officials in many cases were out of touch, childish and lacked the professional touch which one now finds at Watkins Glen.

Although the action was not carried out, for Bean it was a prime example of the pointless and childish activism with which the LEL had become synonymous and he soon wrote to Chesterton, bemoaning the weak campaigning of the LEL, its refusal to contest elections, its attachment to a narrow British nationalism and its strong links to the Conservative Party.

She refers to herself in the third-person, which is considered childish in Japanese culture, and speaks slowly.

: She addresses her brother as, which is a childish address similar to Kaho's, but laced with a British accent.

His band's first album had a statement saying " no orders from Norway accepted ", which Luttinen later admitted to be stupid and childish.