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Example sentences for: childlike

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Lewinsky--dubbed a "zaftig little rascal" by the hometown LAT --is generally perceived as childlike, weak, and sort of, like, stupid.
But we gradually realize that this Nora, in fact, is playing the role that's expected of her--merely "playing tricks," as she says in the last act--and that there's another Nora beneath the childlike silliness that will astonish even her.
I imagine that he was powerfully moved by Daryl Hannah's punky, kick-boxing android in Blade Runner as well as her lissome, childlike mermaid in Splash ; he has created a role for the Ukrainian-born model Jovovich, who has an urchin's face atop a willowy body, that's a strange fusion of both.
It must have something to do with her deceptively childlike look.
Perhaps parents are eager to go to work not because it gives them autonomy but because it lets them be safely and comfortably childlike.