Example sentences for: callow

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

  • 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.

  • The narrator is an unhappy ad copy writer whose callow husband has fallen for a would-be Miss America contestant.

  • 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.

  • Thanks in part to his "wandering eye and wickie-wickie ways," he has lost his wife, Jessie (Farrah Fawcett), and two children (he calls them his "beauties") to Horace (Todd Allen), a gentle, callow minister who seems to be, in every way, Sonny's opposite.

  • Floyd is making me believe more strongly in a Divine Power: From the moment yesterday that I professed to you my belief that acts of God are now invariably overhyped, this one began heading directly toward metropolitan New York--toward me, I'm thinking, and my flip, callow hubris.


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