Example sentences for: callow

How can you use “callow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Since psychoanalysis as a treatment is itself about the possibility and, indeed, the value of biographical truth--psychoanalysis as the biography that is supposed to improve the biography--we are likely to want something specific from this callow new genre.

  • In fact he renders his message in such appealing, facile strokes that one wants to believe he just panicked after the success of High Fidelity and turned out a callow rush job.

  • He's taken a character who's truly dim and callow and found a way to give him a certain hapless appeal.

  • The protagonist, Steven Phillips (Brooks), is a middle-aged screenwriter whose three-picture deal is terminated by a callow executive (Mark Feuerstein) who tells him he no longer has his "edge."

  • His churlishness isn't compelling, it's just an embarrassment, a callow cry for attention.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast