callowness
Example Sentences
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Takatsuki struggles to suppress his youthful callowness and self-destructive temper, and in Okada’s sensitive performance, we see an alarming vision of another encroaching tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2021
The two youngest squads in the Premier League go head to head and last weekend it was Newcastle, second only to Liverpool in the callowness stakes, whose inexperience told.
From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2018
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
The cheerful, demonstrative callowness of Herring’s Joey makes for an apt-enough contrast with the miens of the older figures, and Carpenter’s Mark is a sensitive, thoughtful foil to everyone else.
From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2015
Aside from callowness, what is this man’s problem?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
