second childhood
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This is why it was called a second childhood.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2016
Greene, capturing the second childhood sweetness and mischievousness of Nagg, and Rae, making the most of Nell’s senescent sensuality, are as touching as they are hilarious as Hamm’s bottled up progenitors.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2016
As with that other great 21st-century franchise The Lord of the Rings, the filming took a long time and served as a kind of second childhood for its cast and crew.
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2015
Warhol in the ’60s, looking back to a decade earlier—when he started to become well-known, to make and be able to spend money—may have begun, in effect, to live his second childhood.
From Slate • Jul. 4, 2012
I was going through a second childhood; a new sense of the limit of the possible was being born in me.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
