But in contemporary society, we have trouble talking about the obvious: The transition from boy to man is a risky endeavor, and there can be a lot of collateral damage.
"It was clear to me he had made the transformation from a boy into a man and a leader prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for his country, " Littrell said.
By the sixth form, he had gone from a quiet studious boy to a popular outgoing young man, known among friends as the life and soul of a party.
Everyone in the room laughed, even little ignorant Lydia, and he felt himself shrink back to size: skinny boy on quaking stool, squawking sidekick to the great man.
By contrast, Mr Madelin, a Renault factory worker's boy, can claim to be a man of the people.
When SWAT agents stormed the bunker to rescue the boy from the man's property in the rural Alabama community of Midland City, Dykes "engaged in a firefight with the SWAT agents, " Pack added.
People have gathered in Canterbury to pay tribute to a man and a boy who drowned at a pond in the city.
One crowded Friday evening, I looked up to find a teenaged boy and a short man on the other side of my check-in podium.
When an investment is made in a girl or woman, she invests 90 percent into her families, as opposed to the 30 to 40 percent that a boy or a man would invest.
This sense of existential angst takes literal form when Sam is made an errand boy, and later called one quite directly to his face, told in fact that all he really ever was in the past was an errand boy, not a man of consequence (so to speak).
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Mrs Nadin said the examiner had been at the National League match, between the Warwickshire Bears and the Essex Eagles, from start to finish, with another man and a teenage boy.
"Hard time makes the boy the man, " Elmore said afterward, and it felt to Peter like dad was writing a line in a story.
When, in a jolly tale, a boy sees half a man fall down the chimney, are you supposed to get upset?
As the focus of the boy genius and the woman who turned him into the billionaire man turns to revenue generation, look for continued growth.
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The Imposter, a real-life tale of a missing American boy and the foreign-accented man who - years later - claimed to be him, was named best documentary.
Similarly, during the October 2002 Washington-area sniper investigation, the African-American man and boy ultimately accused of the crime reportedly were able to pass through multiple road blocks with the alleged murder weapon in their possession, in part, because police 'profilers' theorized the crime had been committed by a white male acting alone.
Mr Roh has been reluctant to strike a deal with a man he regards as a rich boy, isolated from the daily concerns of ordinary people.
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Hoping to do something "grand, " she consults with a traveling holy man (Jamie Jackson) while considering either joining a convent, accepting an unexpected marriage proposal from a much older man, or continuing to walk out with Michael Maguire, a boy her own age.
The expectations are somehow that (a woman is) not capable of being with a grown man and has thus chosen to date someone who our society thinks of as a boy.
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He has been in possession of them since winning a case in April 2010 against the Boy Scouts on behalf of a man who was molested in the 1980s by an assistant scoutmaster already known to have abused other boys.
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Detectives have been given more time to question a 21-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman over the boy's death.
Repeating the address to the Tamilian boy from the shop, he set off with a slow, light step, like a fat man jogging.
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