callowness

Together they compensate for the callowness that shows up in Adam.

The husband, with all his cheapness and callowness, was at least that.

The callowness of his young friend must excuse him.

So callowness has been easy to spot and generally unappreciated.

She was tall, but so thin it gave her a look of almost boyish callowness.

"There's a callowness in too many young people now.

But when he spoke, any illusion of callowness vanished.

The words hang on the air, and he stops to consider their callowness, his smile drops to the sink.

Bush displayed this same callowness throughout the evening.

Balzac had always been handsome, to the point of callowness, with piercing green eyes and a firm chin.

It even made the son sympathetic, depicting his request as a product of callowness, not lack of feeling.

But her thoughts remained on the little detective with his phony callowness and his intelligent eyes.

"Although he was vulnerable and sensitive, he never suggested youthfulness or callowness.

But then again, one might forgive such callowness in gratitude for several gems in this otherwise disappointing report.

Ms. Messing is good at rendering goofy callowness with a reflexive edge of self-interest.

Stalin's callowness over the importance of the director's work was of great benefit to the filmmakers since, "with few exceptions, they survived."

But Woodstock's kids had strong feelings about Vietnam and civil rights, and their idealism was real despite its callowness.

Herbert Lippert, once past some callowness in his upper register, was an attractive David.

Try explaining the Saudis' callowness to the Belgians, frustrated all afternoon by defensive thoroughness.

There's a callowness, too, in Egolf's penchant for hyperbole.

Callowness has every reason to claim star billing in a coming-of-age novel, but here it earns an over-the-title credit.

The strange youth had shown a glint of the hard wolfish sophistication that underlay his apparent callowness.

The virginal heroine Helena is helplessly in love with a count who radiates callowness and inattention.

Keep in mind that the callowness is real: the band's youngest member, the bassist Jared Followill, has just recently turned 18.