Like so many callow young men, I wanted to ally myself with the aforementioned exemplars of rock cool. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The man of the world sometimes came upon the glove in his pocket, and laughed at it, as such men do when they recall their callow youth. From Wordnik.com. [Tommy and Grizel] Reference
Next morning early they sent in their 'callow' verses to the great man, and followed shortly themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London] Reference
And leaves her callow care, and cleaves the skies. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Many a callow bee is buzzing helplessly in the path. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
The joke was callow-and it represented a miscalculation. From Wordnik.com. [What Went Wrong] Reference
Playing the same callow twentysomething in movie after movie. From Wordnik.com. [Riffs: Call it a comeback: Artists we miss. And others we'd like to miss, if only they would leave.] Reference
He nodded toward the group of callow youths who surrounded Angelica. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
He was a boy too, frightened, callow, like the boy sitting next to her now. From Wordnik.com. [Road-trip] Reference
From these samples of our callow speech, the modesty of our ambition may be inferred. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Michael Jordan, callow, serene, lofting the shot that won the NCAA championship at 19. From Wordnik.com. [A Tiger In The Grass] Reference
General Samuel R. Curtis, with whom I used to associate in my callow congressional days. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Perhaps that's why it's more acceptable to suggest that a contender is callow than over the hill. From Wordnik.com. [How Old Is Too Old?] Reference
Butter was callow and fey, a moon child, peaches and cream, as shapely as any Hollywood ingénue. From Wordnik.com. [The The Three Sisters] Reference
The captain-general was overpowered by her tears and lamentations, and the clamors of her callow brood. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Many a flaming reputation has been extinguished after dazzling callow admirers for six months, or even less. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
It may seem silly to suggest that the NBA is so fragile that one callow youth can threaten its very well being. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: An All Too Kobe Christmas] Reference
Like much of the day, it's terrifying on the first go – but after a few callow attempts I'm feeling confident. From Wordnik.com. [The fall guy: a day at stuntman school] Reference
The site aims to follow in Facebook's callow undergraduate footsteps, launching in seven universities this week. From Wordnik.com. [You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz] Reference
They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Imagine a callow youth just out of his teens dropping in haphazard on a rebel tribe accompanied by a mission-taught. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Willa shrugged and turned away to greet her host, who came forward with one of the inevitable callow youths in tow. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Or to put it another way, Clemens wimped out and put the fortunes of Red Sox Nation in the hands of a callow rookie. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: The Curse Is Dead] Reference
The girl he had loved in his callow youth and had forgotten, still retained something of her old fascination for him. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
That's a tall order for any actor, and Affleck, an expert at playing cocky, callow yuppies, just doesn't have the heft. From Wordnik.com. [Movies: Spy Vs. Spy] Reference
"Sneakers" sputters toward the finish line, when the narrow escapes get too silly and the jokey nonchalance too callow. From Wordnik.com. [The Games People Play] Reference
"Or, perhaps, Miss Marley's a freak like the white peacock at the gardens?" broke in a callow youth whom Elsie disliked. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
Sometimes a sunbeam's dazzling radiance would check him in mid-career, and his callow eyes would take an hour to recover. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
There's a lot more going on in this convoluted thriller than the spectacle of a handsome lad transcending his callow nature. From Wordnik.com. [An Offer He Should've Refused] Reference
As a callow youth of 21, I volunteered for the service and spent 18 months in the Pacific area during the height of the conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Letters: September 11 Remembered] Reference
The month leading up to the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks has been dominated by a callow and opportunistic debate. From Wordnik.com. [Michael B. Keegan: Forget the Pastor: Let's Talk About the Extremists to Worry About] Reference
He's just a callow, average kid with raging hormones, which makes the folly of her misplaced emotions all the more poignant -- and funny. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Movie Guide] Reference
By the time she got tumbled out into the world, all big men were unquestionable authority and all young men were callow whipper-snappers. From Wordnik.com. [Citadel] Reference
When the callow, cash-strapped Jackie looks into selling these rarities, she plunges into a world of conspiracies, half-truths and con men. From Wordnik.com. ['Mauritius' at 1st Stage: A stamp saga that doesn't deliver the goods] Reference
He had been fascinated like a callow youngster by her delicate, pretty features; by her deep gray eyes, her budding lips, her gentle voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
He was taken in his callow infancy from the wing of a tender parent by the rough and pitiless hand of a two-legged animal without feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Quaint Epitaphs] Reference
Lucy's in love with a callow Yuppie commuter named Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher), though he slips into a coma before she ever meets him. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Train] Reference
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