• We are at a point in our culture when we actually have to pull for grown-up movies, when we must try to encourage them and laud them when they come by.

    WSJ: Peggy Noonan: Jobs, Thatcher and the Force of Life

  • Having grown up when photography was just being recognized as an art form, the French-born Cartier-Bresson was perhaps being an aesthetic contrarian, the anti-Stieglitz and un-Steichen, resisting the soft-focus tradition of those photographers that often conferred a romantic mist on their subjects.

    FORBES: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Aesthetic Contrarian

  • There will likely come a day when gamers have all finally grown up and start caring enough to demand all of these things.

    FORBES: We Don't Need a Video Game Oscars, Yet

  • When the children graduate to more grown-up endeavors, a 300-foot zip line is installed on the property.

    WSJ: The House of The Year

  • Elena has also spoken movingly about how her mother had grown up at a time when women had few opportunities to pursue their ambitions and took great joy in watching her daughter do so.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Nominates Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

  • We're going to make sure that young people who are brought to this country when they were very young and have grown up as Americans, that they have an opportunity to contribute here in America, the country that they love. (Applause.) We're not going backwards.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • There is a culture that has grown up around England, particularly when it plays abroad.

    BBC

  • Her mother had left when Bridey was nine, and she had grown up with her father, a lawyer, who adored her.

    NEWYORKER: The Proxy Marriage

  • The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.

    FORBES: Beleaguered Barbie's Girl Fight Busts Mattel Profits

  • When I was in high school, the coolest grown-up that I knew enlisted in the service.

    FORBES: Veterans Day Tax Bill Moves Forward

  • In any case, it was just as easy to enjoy it as a grown-up, in the same way that when you now look at Looney Tunes starring a knowing Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, you realize that their creators wrote them as much for their own amusement, chock full of double entendres, as for children's.

    WSJ: Only Make Believe Performs the Highest of Art

  • But Kent questions whether they make sense when a family doesn't need insurance--that is, when an estate is liquid enough to pay any estate taxes, and the children are grown up and the spouse well fixed.

    FORBES: Hoist By Your Own Petard

  • Meet us after the break to see how the technology's grown up since we tried it out it a year ago, and then when you're done reading through our impressions, check out the walkthrough video at the end.

    ENGADGET: Hands-on with Tobii REX, a peripheral that brings eye-tracking to any Windows 8 PC (video)

  • The 12-year-old watch brand is an infant when it comes to the venerable world of the Swiss watch industry, but it has grown up at lightning speed with technical innovations and partnerships with athletes in sports ranging from track and field to soccer to auto racing.

    FORBES: Richard Mille RM58-01 Tourbillon World Timer

  • Defence lawyers said the boy, who had grown up in an abusive environment, was too young to know right from wrong when he pulled the trigger in May 2011.

    BBC: Boy found responsible for killing neo-Nazi father

  • While my own scrimping ways may seem antithetical to the trope of Millennials being entitled and self-indulgent, Mills says that having grown up in politically and financially tumultuous times has actually been a boon to many twenysomethings when it comes to how they control their spending habits.

    FORBES: Why Your Bank Account Needs Its Own Therapist

  • Having grown up in apartheid South Africa, she is always awake to stories of suffering, particularly when it arises from social inequities.

    FORBES: Femininity, Feminism and the "Either/Or Woman"

  • He had formed this force when he became sheriff, appointed by the old friend, Governor Jim Folsom, with whom he had grown up in the tiny town of Elba, on the Pea River in Coffee County.

    ECONOMIST: Jim Clark

  • It was no surprise, then, when about six years later, my little brother (who I will continue to refuse to admit is a grown-up) also signed up to join the Navy.

    FORBES: Veterans Day Tax Bill Moves Forward

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定