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Takatsuki struggles to suppress his youthful callowness and self-destructive temper, and in Okada’s sensitive performance, we see an alarming vision of another encroaching tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2021

He was supposed to be the “grown-up in the room,” a counterweight to W.’s callowness.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2021

The two youngest squads in the Premier League go head to head and last weekend it was Newcastle, second only to Liverpool in the callowness stakes, whose inexperience told.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2018

It’s one of the pleasures of reading him, that for all the callowness, or cruelty, of his characters, he never extends his judgments onto us.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 21, 2016

Aside from callowness, what is this man’s problem?

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos