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  • n  lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
  • n  the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

  • Too often they display the outworn grotesqueries of Carmen Miranda and the excessive juvenility of Actress Powell.
  • To judge from the far-out photography, real desperate sound track, and dragsville dialogue that Krylon-spray the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility .
  • I can't bear its smugness, its complacency, its juvenility.
Quotes

  • TS Eliot in Times Online
    It is a mixture of brilliance, juvenility and bad taste,Eliot concluded. "Absence of any satire at the expense of the Labour party - although it is pleasant to see this type of entertainment being so successful."
  • Jacques Audiard in National Post
    I first met him socially by chance,Audiard said. "He really struck my attention ...... his juvenility, there's no tragedy in his look. I feel that he has a relationship with life that is always full of hope. You can root for him."

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