youthful

Examples of youthfulness

youthfulness
The outer body can be interpreted as a betrayal of the youthfulness of the inner self.
His youthfulness reduced the value of his work or restricted him to lighter or less-skilled tasks.
The present culture creates a tension between the inevitability of the decrements of ageing and youthfulness.
A period of fever seems to burn the vision of his own youthfulness out of him, and he gives way to decline.
A few women argued that they had accepted their socially devalued status even as they lamented the equation of beauty with youthfulness.
This youthfulness often manifests itself in being rebellious, refusing to act the same as anyone else, and striving to be unique.
The second movement is almost like a children's reel, and the music is lively, energetic and full of youthfulness.
For the ' persona ', youthfulness in the context of a maturing self becomes a diversion.
The mask of ageing speaks to the repression and denial of old age and mortality in a society that adulates youthfulness.
The youthfulness of these states and of their apparatus, as well as the traumatising experience of colonialism, are to some degree responsible.
In texts about 'age-defying consumers', marketing ' experts' and reporters connected consumer purchases to several positive outcomes, such as youthfulness and social inclusion.
For the ' mask of ageing ', continuity would imply sustaining a youthfulness which stabilises at some point in adulthood.
This behaviour accepts rather than challenges the cultural valuation of youthfulness and the negative representation of old age.
We elucidate the two definitions of ageism that emerged in in-depth interviews with 44 women aged 50 to 70 years : the social obsession with youthfulness and discrimination against older adults.
The pervasive obsession with youthfulness and physical attractiveness in contemporary society has resulted in a proliferation of products and services that older adults, particularly women, are increasingly compelled to utilise.
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