Words similar to coming-of-age

Example sentences for: coming-of-age

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A coming-of-age celebration and ceremony for a young girl on her fifteenth birthday.
USA Today 's Mike Clark calls the coming-of-age story set at an orphanage in 1940s Maine "passive but passable."
For the contemporary Chicano male, el bato loco is not only a symbol of ethnic identity but also an icon of the urban coming-of-age experience itself.
Evenly divided negative and positive reports for this unexpectedly sincere coming-of-age story from the masters of gross-out comedy, the Farrelly brothers ( There's Something About Mary ). Directed by Michael Corrente and based on a novel by Peter Farrelly, it's a standard fish-out-of-water tale (poor kid from small-town Rhode Island gets sent to a snobby boarding school).
Detractors say the film lacks any real sense of narrative continuity and feels like "bits and pieces of half a dozen coming-of-age films" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ).