childlike

Example Sentences

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But there’s something deeply strange about his performance here, grinning and mugging with childlike wonder in a way that can only be read as disingenuous.

From Los Angeles Times

The film opens with a shaky, grainy YouTube video of Chris and his friends blowing up a mailbox, his joyful, childlike face captured in freeze frame as he’s running away.

From Los Angeles Times

With childlike absorption, Josh begins hopping on it to the tune of “Heart and Soul.”

From New York Times

His association with the festival, which he loves with childlike passion, goes back almost to its beginning; there’s no one more devoted to it, or to George.

From Los Angeles Times

I always loved that choice — even then, even childlike and hurt, Michael Scott is grandiose in effect.

From Los Angeles Times