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    childlike


    1. ” He was smiling at her childlike actions


    2. couldn't help but notice that her childlike face was in the process of turning into


    3. Under the helmet she is a tall and elegant woman, very, very, reserved but childlike in many ways


    4. His grip was childlike, and had he wanted to, Alec could have crushed it, forever ruined his perfect, manicured hand


    5. Though both were small, considering they were several Gypsium Nights shy of adulthood, even a full grown human would've appeared childlike walking next to the elf


    6. At first there were only the voices, disembodied, three childlike whispers echoing one another from amidst the darkness of the room


    7. Childlike it may be, but even Imorbis knew that it was not stupid


    8. the train, up close, after such a long tim, filled me with childlike


    9. Mercer just sat watching her, resisting the urge to further mock her for what he deemed a childlike assumption about the way the world worked


    10. He was a natural born scientist in a sense – always inquisitive, always childlike, wanting to discover new things

    11. She was so pretty that for a brief moment he actually forgot the exhilarating sexual experience he was having and thought only of her beauty in a childlike way


    12. Her voice was not musical like Lydia and Elmira, more childlike and self-important


    13. But there was nothing childlike in the way it moved


    14. would send him to bed supperless, but, with childlike faith and certain


    15. I‘m not sure where I‘m going with this so try and follow my line of reasoning inasmuch as I am liable to form an uncertain analogy as it relates to the childlike treatment of the (subject) people involved: undermining freedom, initiative, self-reliance, (human) potential and an individual‘s moral and intellectual authority; that is to say, contrary to an individual‘s inherent right to naturally evolve into a productive human being; to learn, think and act independently in his or her (own) inestimable manner


    16. Immaturity, however, should not be confused with Innocence; that is to say, an individual impervious to wicked designs; virtuous and childlike in manner; whose artless qualities haven‘t been compromised by age or external designs, for that matter


    17. I know it sounds arrogant and patronising (not meant to be) but we found their problems quite childlike in comparison


    18. Mature features, yet he still carried the boyish childlike face I remembered


    19. He had the energy and childlike attitude to entertain the boys for hours on end


    20. It is axiomatic that every individual who properly enjoys life, gives (reflective) pause to all that is meaningful and of certain value; held motionless by uncertain forms that have yet to take shape however aroused by such notions that (necessarily) compel he or she to probe deeper into their essential nature notwithstanding how they (may) oftentimes exceed the capacious limits of that individual‘s (private) understanding that nevertheless continues to intrigue inquiring minds cognizant of intuitive impressions part real / part imaginary yet real in the real sense of being One in All; (however separated) whose underlying presence, however, conveys a (higher) spiritual or moral standing…that the young, conditioned by the expectancies of youth united with the old seeking redemption for unfulfilled promises or missed opportunities; each converging toward the same starting/ending point, the one embarking on life and the other approaching its end, in some manner, however, occasioning a (new) beginning, a jubilee, an extension of life which becomes younger (while growing older), brought together, youth/age, childlike in all its manly/womanly innocence while the middle years patiently bide their appointed time

    21. The constant giving with no strings attached provoked childlike expectations among an overindulged generation of children whose detachment and immaturity caused many to incorrectly estimate or value the sacrifices made by their parents


    22. Such attitudes can be traced to an ill-conceived leveling of parent/child relationships precipitated by childlike (parental) idiosyncrasies that have (predictably) produced unintended results


    23. The other soldier seemed taken aback by the incongruous humor and shuffled himself on the sack uneasily, responding with childlike bitterness:


    24. It’s like an aeroplane cockpit in here; and with a childlike urge, he flipped a switch


    25. and childlike smile snatched Ben's heart on the 1st day he saw her,


    26. Knocking on a gargole door knob, another slave answered, a beautiful young house maid with childlike eyes


    27. The point is that the childlike attributes, at that age, a child trusts


    28. Derek was not impressed with his childlike friend


    29. The childlike voice sounded as if it was merely playing with


    30. I always thought there was something childlike in her eyes

    31. I had been stupid, childlike in my foolish belief that somehow my uncle had returned to me centuries later, to hold me, tell me everything would be okay now that he was here, take my hand and lead me on my path of resurrection for the rightful place of vampires in this mortal world


    32. Will you stop your childlike notions of battle now?” he asked me solemnly


    33. Posters with rainbow-colored, childlike fonts listing the only


    34. It exacerbates racial tension, and treats Blacks as having a childlike mentality


    35. 13:44,45); He emphasized humility, and childlike faith as the


    36. He never remembered seeing his dad like this before—vulnerable and almost childlike


    37. Stacy looks at him with childlike admiration, "Anything else?"


    38. " And then Jesus entered upon a prolonged and convincing dissertation to the effect that the Father in heaven was not truly concerned with such childlike and meaningless rituals


    39. After solemn and fervent prayer they rose, and Jesus said: "Let the childlike and darkened minds of my people serve their God as Moses directed; it is better that they do, but let us who have seen the light of life no longer approach our Father by the darkness of death


    40. For peace!” He raised his glass, the smile on his face strangely childlike and unselfconscious

    41. The symbolism of your records was intended for the backward ages of the world's childlike thought


    42. And he says and does all these tremendous things with such childlike naturalness


    43. All science has done is to destroy the childlike illusions of the misinterpretations of life


    44. " Notwithstanding that Jesus' faith was childlike, it was in no sense childish


    45. She raised her head slowly, taking in the crude bunk-bed on which she was lying, childlike, absorbed in the phantasmagoric clutter inside the dirty room


    46. “Share?” Wendy asked in her most childlike voice


    47. Once outside the hut, Siri lost his composure and wept, childlike


    48. It was the first time that he had seen her looking utterly vulnerable, childlike, waiting for his reassurance


    49. mind; since the brain in Theta is in a childlike state it accepts suggestions


    50. The officer put it in his shirt pocket with a childlike glow in his eyes and he put the others back in the can and set it back where it had been









































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    Synonyms for "childlike"

    childlike childly dewy-eyed round-eyed simple wide-eyed puerile adolescent childish young boyish

    "childlike" definitions

    befitting a young child


    exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity