puerilely

Barth's offenses, just in case the students were thinking of buying it, is Giles Goat-Boy, which Gardner tells them is "arch, extravagantly self-indulgent, clumsily allegorical, pedantic, tiresomely and pretentiously advance-guard, and like much of our 'new fiction', puerilely obscene."

MFA Rock 2009

Barth's offenses, just in case the students were thinking of buying it, is Giles Goat-Boy, which Gardner tells them is "arch, extravagantly self-indulgent, clumsily allegorical, pedantic, tiresomely and pretentiously advance-guard, and like much of our 'new fiction', puerilely obscene."

Monsters of Academia (Updated) 2008

Barth's offenses, just in case the students were thinking of buying it, is Giles Goat-Boy, which Gardner tells them is "arch, extravagantly self-indulgent, clumsily allegorical, pedantic, tiresomely and pretentiously advance-guard, and like much of our 'new fiction', puerilely obscene."

Monsters of Academia (Updated) 2008

It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather puerilely, but profoundly serene.

Les Miserables 2008

Barth's offenses, just in case the students were thinking of buying it, is Giles Goat-Boy, which Gardner tells them is "arch, extravagantly self-indulgent, clumsily allegorical, pedantic, tiresomely and pretentiously advance-guard, and like much of our 'new fiction', puerilely obscene."

April 2008 2008

The poor agony bell, which exhausted itself in ringing over there so puerilely to call for useless prayers, stopped at last, and, under the closed sky, the respiration of the grand waters alone was heard in the distance, in the universal silence.

Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

These things, described but puerilely, have the weight of an allegory.

Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England 1886

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Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England 1886

It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather puerilely, but profoundly serene.

Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius 1862

It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. M.beuf remained rather puerilely, but profoundly serene.

Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843