"Childlike enthusiasm" refers to the innocent and joyful excitement that children often display when they discover or engage in something they love. Full definition
While del Toro is always geeky charming, and there were plenty of questions for Channing Tatum, especially one alluding to his best asset being his «visual» ones and not necessarily his voice, the real charmer was director Gutierrez who spoke with childlike enthusiasm about his childhood in Mexico and his deep connection with Dia De Los Muertos, a day when the dead are honored and believed to commune with the living. (waytooindie.com)
As one partner explained to legal journalist Paul Hoffman, corporate executives have «an almost childlike enthusiasm for celebrities,» and Nixon was one of the biggest. (abajournal.com)
The film follows her on daily activities, and Bourgeois entertains with her charismatic and almost childlike enthusiasm. (sfmoma.org)