This may be the most grown-up rock record ever made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lou's Latest: No Kid Stuff] Reference

From the time I was 7 I was admitted to grown-up lunches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Storm Clouds] Reference

Jarvis does her hobnobbing in a very grown-up business suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [All's Fair In Toyland, U.S.A.] Reference

The grown-up Amir seems rather bland and mopey in comparison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: ‘The Kite Runner’] Reference

But the grown-up boomer combs the budget for ways to pare back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are You Anxious? You're Not Alone] Reference

W. Christopher (+) Designated grown-up, plays cards inside vest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inner-Sanctum Edition] Reference

"I think they're going to have to be more grown-up in the future.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking The Tabs To Task] Reference

For the grown-up pub experience, try one of our favorite gastropubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Food: Highbrow Pub Crawl] Reference

She even dresses like one, in grown-up doll clothes she makes herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Novel Full Of Miracles] Reference

Sayles has a stubborn faith in his audience's grown-up attention span.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movies: Fresh Squeezed] Reference

An old fogey to make the world think there's a grown-up on the bridge?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble With Bentsen] Reference

It's something of a relief, then, when Depp's grown-up act starts to falter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Respect, Please] Reference

For grown-up gadget fans, a high-end electric toothbrush can be a great present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Ten Healthy Gifts] Reference

Maybe the American public wants Dole to act more like the grown-up he used to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Jack Hurt Bill?] Reference

That was the only way she could think of to describe herself to a strange grown-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money, Religion And Sex] Reference

Let's sic it on grown-up TV, beginning with the commercials ... then to "Geraldo".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ms. Frizzle Explains All] Reference

The senior official in charge of Latin America policy, Thomas Shannon, is a grown-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right Ideas, Wrong Time] Reference

"The Electric Company" was the first show to make a grade-school kid feel like a grown-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Electric New ‘Company’] Reference

Even the dumbest TV flashbacks are instant relief from the heartburn of life as a grown-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retro-Tubing: All Oldies, All The Time] Reference

Malloy, a seasoned "grown-up" with an impressive track record at AT&T, was making progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dot-Coms Over A Barrel] Reference

The plan was to run as the heroic, stable grown-up against a draft-dodging, two-faced weasel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whatever Campaign] Reference

The DreamWorks director will develop blockbusters, grown-up fare -- and a wider executive role.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Century Club] Reference

Michael Cerveris as the grown-up Tommy epitomizes the cast, attractive but without real charisma.    From Wordnik.com.  [From The Who To The Whom] Reference

There was his third marriage, in 1994, to Ellen Frey, who, he says, "" taught me to be a grown-up. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [From 'Ashes' To Stardom] Reference

So does having a grown-up nearby to soothe and to underscore the difference between fantasy and reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [What If The Three Pigs Tried Conflict Mediation?] Reference

Kids may want to express who they are, but they are playing grown-up without fully knowing what that means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young, Gay and Murdered] Reference

Now in my 30s, I've begun driving like a grown-up, and so far this century I've garnered just a single ticket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reinventing the ‘Fuzzbuster’] Reference

That helps explain why people now tell me that I'm a "real grown-up" -- as I so obviously wasn't while single.    From Wordnik.com.  [LOSER DOG NATION] Reference

An early example of this came one day when the telephone rang in the playroom and there was no grown-up present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money, Religion And Sex] Reference

Granted, the prices of toys seem to go up once you're a grown-up, but there's an Information Age bonus: now they really work.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's New And Nifty] Reference

Is it worth spending millions trying to mimic a technique that's too often just a grown-up version of nah nah nah nah nah nah?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Even Try The Imitation?] Reference

"I'm Luke Skywalker getting out of the Death Star!" he exults, giving the lie to his claim to be "the only grown-up" in the race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics Of Personality] Reference

Jim Clark, 61The grown-up who organized the wonder lads of Netscape, Clark had already struck gold with Silicon Graphics in 1982.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serial Entrepreneurs] Reference

I wonder what they told their own grown-up children about the Americans who once befriended them with handouts, against the rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chocolate Grenades] Reference

But then came news of cases like the 13-year-old Kentucky girl found in Los Angeles after supposedly being lured by a grown-up cyberpal.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Place For Kids?] Reference