callowness

Example Sentences

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Chalamet, always good at suggesting both youthful callowness and limitless potential, proves an inspired choice for the role of a young man who is both a coddled heir and an intriguingly unknown quantity.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2021

It’s one of the pleasures of reading him, that for all the callowness, or cruelty, of his characters, he never extends his judgments onto us.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 21, 2016

Both these characters, force-marched into maturity by the reckless adults in their lives, were pitiable, but Eisenberg made room to explore their callowness and unpleasantness, too.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2016

It has an aura of the best kind of earnest conversation that kept you up all night in your early adulthood — but it transcends that potential callowness with its Keatsian sense of impending mortality.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2016

Aside from callowness, what is this man’s problem?

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos