Yet as Douglas Cowan, who specializes in religion in film, television, and popular culture at Renison University College at University of Waterloo, avers, "Often it appears as though religious sensibilities are presented as little more than straw characters in science fiction--useful for demonstrating the futility or
puerility of religious beliefs, but little more.
Yet their insistence that they are not interested in criticizing the current state of affairs in electoral politics is belied by the fact that they make frequent use of sardonic parenthetical comments--comments that are apparently meant to poke fun at candidates and the
puerility of campaign rhetoric.
To me there is nothing but
puerility in a tale in which the human form--and the local human passions and conditions and standards--are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes.
Our progressive masters have attempted a similar "update" to our national motto, to make it: "From sea to sea to sea." Like the other changes, it is an exercise in
puerility. Those who have seen a map will grasp that there is an Arctic Ocean in addition to the Atlantic and Pacific.
IT is difficult to imagine that so much vacuous
puerility should emanate from all sections of the media regarding the appointment of Paulo Di Canio as manager of Sunderland AFC.
Applying Tolkien's argument to his own magnum opus, she argues that these themes are what set both works beyond critics' charges of
puerility and whimsy, and that the fantasy elements are a vehicle, mere but essential, for the conveyance of the texts' deepest meanings: For all its beer-and-mushrooms hobbitry, its epic battles and fairy tale adventures in mysterious woods, the real strength of The Lord of the Rings resides in its dark side, its concern--carried over from its parent mythology of The Silmarillion--with death and deathlessness.
Maybe you can talk about post-modern
puerility? That will go down well, I said.
We spectators laughed our socks off at such
puerility.
The orbitofrontal (disinhibited) syndrome includes disinhibited and impulsive behaviors, inappropriate affect, euphoria,
puerility, emotional lability, poor judgment, distractibility, increased energy, aggression, and violence (8).
If these were his final moments in the consciousness of the English football fan - this was his chance to erase the poisonous memories of playacting, posturing and
puerility.
While the serious neoconservatives have placed their bets on Romney--they always gravitate toward power--the populist right-wing base, including the Tea Partiers, have a lot of equally unpalatable choices: Newt Gingrich, the pretentious professor and would-be elder statesman, who can hardly utter a word without referring to his own genius; Michele Bachmann, a poor mans Sarah Palin, behind whose thou sand-mile stare lurks a scary void; Rick Santorum, whose whiny belligerence bespeaks an insipid
puerility; Rick Perry, a man who falls easily into a trance; and last but also least, the serial sex offender Herman Cain, whose near total ignorance is excused on account of his skin color, and whose success underscores the utter vapidity of what passes for the conservative movement today.
Talking critters and sundry
puerility suggest it must be a film for the young'ns, But then, its adult-relationships theme (along with The Hangover's Ken Jeong pulling his usual wacko moves - now that guy needs to be kept away from kids at all costs) means this isn't massively suitable for under-12s.
