How To Use Infantilism In A Sentence
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It shows the creeping infantilism of American pop culture.
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It returned the club experience, and dancing in particular, to infancy, in fact infantilism.
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If the Scottish parliament doesn't help Scotland emerge from its infantilism, it will not have been worth the effort.
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Of course, her love for him is unreciprocated, as he toys with her heart and then leaves her, quickly tiring of her infantilism and naïveté.
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Over the great band of society where, in 1914, it had been odd and disreputable not to go to church, it was now seen as odd and a form of infantilism to do so.
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But it might have been a little more questioning of what some would call his innocence and others his infantilism.
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It is an extension of their infantilism in not wanting to take responsibility for their actions.
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He loves the rich movement vocabulary and the technical skills, but abhors the coldness and infantilism.
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That points not to an ideological malice worth worrying about but probably to the harmless political infantilism of a zealous minority of Whitlamites.
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Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.
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It's an example of infantilism, a regressive desire for boundarylessness, a plea for a love object that never disappoints.
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The game is up: it is declining into infantilism.
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The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised.
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We may operate with economic infantilism, borrowing blithely, ignoring pension schemes and blowing half our annual earnings on rent.
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Jan follows such an entropic arc, but his initial infantilism makes one wonder if the war has eroded his psyche or merely amplified the selfishness that defined his character long before the violence began.
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The present display tries to give this unfathomable infantilism an adult twist by labelling it officially as kawaii — cute.
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It's an example of infantilism, a regressive desire for boundarylessness, a plea for a love object that never disappoints.
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Symonds (1975) described similar regressed and dependent behaviour in victims of crime as traumatic psychological infantilism.
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Diminution of function (_hypopituitarism_) is attended with infantilism, a rapid deposition of fat in the subcutaneous tissue, and
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The old question was, How can otherwise sensible people, in affirming God as a source of meaning, manifest, such infantilism?
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In her ten books of poetry, in her two published novels as well as in her reviews and essays there is a response to this challenge not to live a kind of ethical infantilism.
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Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.
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The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised.
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There is a kind of infantilism about the booze and football culture of urban Scotland, and an inability to cope with complicated issues.
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Typically, despite the fact that the city's police confessed that more damage was done on the average Saturday night in the city, it was the anarchists and their infantilism that stole the headlines the next day.
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Can such paternalism on the part of our rulers lead to anything but infantilism on the part of the people?
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Even the memory of terror, with the criminal not present, can produce traumatic psychological infantilism.
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‘Childhood is most positively valued and fostered when we resist infantilism,’ he said.
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Of course they write about it all the time, but that is the standard infantilism of French intellectual life.
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He explains, ‘Among the conditions which are expressions of degeneracy of the body are three conditions known as infantilism, masculinism, and feminism.’