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Example sentences for: childlike

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Some of these terms go to the opposite extreme, suggesting a warm and fuzzy, childlike relationship that seems all too naively trusting, as if Little Red Riding Hood really could trust the wolf dressed as her grandmother.
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.
Arrested between thought and action, Gandolfini still bears traces of childlike befuddlement in his doughy face; he can't begin to figure out why the foundations of his world have become so illusory.
And then there's Jar Jar Binks, the childlike sidekick with the unmistakably West Indian accent and enormous buttocks.
Perhaps parents are eager to go to work not because it gives them autonomy but because it lets them be safely and comfortably childlike.