infantility

The absurd infantility of paranoid if powerful neo-con men who will blame anyone, absolutely anybody else, for the messes they have deposited themselves but refuse to take adult responsibility for is perfectly caught in that title.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: November 2006 Archives 2006

Puck and Hoffmann's Kleinzach, Oskar Matzerath is a completely original creation: an infernal intelligence in the body of a three-year old, a monster who victoriously approaches mankind with the aid of a tin drum, an intellectual with infantility as his critical method.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999 - Presentation Speech 1999

Thanks to intelligent planning, two other works in this programme - both inhabiting the same sound-world - pointed up the infantility of Montague's scatter-gun approach to religion.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

In the same way, childishness and infantility are fraudulent imitations of the holy innocence of childhood, whereas its true antitype would be old age, or senility, or Larry King.

One Cʘsmos 2010

The Controller skipped the next sentences and was just about to turn the page in search of something more interestingly concrete, when his eye was caught by a series of quite extraordinary phrases. "… though I must admit," he read, "that I agree with the Savage in finding civilized infantility too easy or, as he puts it, not expensive enough; and I would like to take this opportunity of drawing your fordship's attention to …"

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932