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Example sentences for: grown-ups

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The first daughter anecdotes are light (when Itzhak Perlman played for the White House grown-ups, she furtively listened).
He catches Abbie Hoffman acting out for the camera--tongue protruding, middle finger in the air, "fuck" emblazoned on his forehead--but when you look at Hoffman's eyes you see no joy, no mirth, no childish glee at pissing off the grown-ups.
A "glorified Mighty Ducks for grown-ups" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ) pretty much sums up the reaction to this tale of a small-town hockey team that gets a chance to play the New York Rangers.
Maybe one of the reasons Rowling hit it big with grown-ups is her refusal to drum in lessons.
Parents need to deal with teen-agers' troubles personally--which means, paradoxically, taking them less personally; this isn't about the collective guilt of grown-ups, but about the prospects of individual kids.