"A not-insignificant percentage of the population has so decisively internalised the values of the market for their labour," he writes, "that the act of resculpting themselves to better meet its needs feels like authentic expression." What he says echoes a key passage in Guy Debord's visionary text The Society of the Spectacle , published 50 years ago: "Just when the mass of commodities slides toward
puerility, the puerile itself becomes a special commodity; this is epitomised by the gadget ...
It's hard to find the right noun to encapsulate the Gulf dispute, but I have heard "
puerility." If so, it is difficult to gauge the length of time and circumstances that will see it resolved.
By June 1824, he could write to Petr Viazemsky, "It is unforgivable
puerility that all enlightened European peoples should be raving about Greece.
Even Grey, who is decidedly less complimentary, agrees on this point, insisting "the
puerility of these traditions and barbarous mythological systems by no means diminishes their importance as regards to their influence upon the human race" (xiii).
While the reference to the Middle East, which was mere rhetoric bereft of substance, takes the policy into ambiguity, the
puerility of the doctrine grows more obvious due to its failure to address climate concerns in a document on security threats which even scientists in the U.S.
Puerility. The smell of lube and the scent of decaying flesh.
Medina's face takes on a pained expression when he talks about Rubio's recent descent into
puerility and playground insults directed at Trump: That's something a grown-up candidate shouldn't even contemplate doing.
When does spectating become prurience, or even just
puerility? Not, 'What happens when we confine risk to the realm of the aesthetic?' but, 'What happens when risk usurps that realm entirely?'
"Fascist
Puerility." Qui Parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History.
While "Slam Poem" addresses the speaker's mature concerns in relation to sexuality and chastises the male suitor, Leroy, for his sexual
puerility, upbraiding, "yuh tink dat ting in yuh trousis is a toy" (107), "Who Am I" never progresses beyond a juvenile conception of sexuality.
Crammed to bursting with gross-out toilet humour and
puerility, Damon Beesley and Iain Morris' film doesn't waste an opportunity to whip out a penis joke or labour the lead characters' suffering.
Crammed with gross-out toilet humour and
puerility, Damon Beesley and Iain Morris' film doesn't waste an opportunity to whip out a penis joke or labour the lead characters' suffering.
How wonderfully witty.The mishaps,
puerility and (sigh) frequent flatulence that follow simply emphasise that not only have the actors got old, but so has the humour.
