If she chose to, she could hold his joy, his childishness, in contempt.

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"The decision by Ireland and Scotland smacks of childishness and I can't understand it, " said WRU group chief executive David Moffett.

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The grandeur, childishness, petulance and the charisma, I thought, was tremendous.

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Even established authors can fall victim to bouts of public childishness, as author Alice Hoffman did in several peevish Tweets to a Boston Globe critic who gave her a mildly critical review.

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And this is where the childishness comes in.

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The childishness of the two of them had migrated somewhat to me, and, while I felt bad for them, their home, such as it was, taken from them, it was a relief to be back in my own mind, undistracted, uninvolved.

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But Farrell's flamboyant oafs remain endearing for their guileless childishness, "mind-bottling" way with words, and the star's willingness to let it all hang out ("I thought you'd like to see what a real skater's body looks like, " he tells Jimmy over his paunch).

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