Sentences with phrase «almost childlike»

The first stage of your development is the getting phase, which is almost childlike and it is quite normal as part of the process to mastering money.

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.

What Johanson Makes: Colorful and almost childlike paintings of people, cities, and solar systems, often with words of wisdom or existential outbursts.

The artistic concept behind nearly all the posters is so contrived as to be almost childlike.

The androgynous figure appears situated between the sexes; its body has a prepubescent, almost childlike look.

The almost childlike handwriting of the ornamentally charged paintings provokes the question about the limits of painting as art or as an element of everyday life.

Marilyn Monroe is arguably the most photographed personality of the 1950s; famed for her intoxicating sexuality wrapped in an aura of almost childlike innocence.

It is a startling piece — the blocky, almost childlike writing clashing with the frank nudity — and could be read, perhaps, as a depiction of digital space at its most brusque, clogged with pornography, comments, and orders.

With almost childlike innocence, history repeats itself.

With an almost childlike fascination for objects that grow, transform, and reshape themselves, Altmejd creates sculptures, suffused with ornament, that blur distinctions between interior and exterior, surface and structure, representation and abstraction.

Hands pull colorful pieces of fabric from a head, and a face is lit up in various colors, a sincere and almost childlike adoration and idealization of the field of emotions, inspired by the expressionistic paintings of Gabriele Munther and images from modern fMRI scanners.

In these abstract, almost childlike drawing...

Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet series is unlike any other, and the excitement that Dreams brings to me is almost childlike.

They were almost childlike in their trust in systems and processes: If PWC or a big law firm looked at something, that was good enough.

They had an almost childlike trust in photographers.

Her almost childlike, drumbeat belief in the power of school choice as a panacea, along with her unwillingness to protect college students from predatory for - profit schools and predatory loans, make her a destructive force in education..

she says with almost childlike joy, and the sheriff is immediately smitten.

Along the way we experience Jack's descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge - a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self - pity and psychopathic explanations.

There's an almost childlike sense of discovery to these moments — the spark of temptation, the surprised joy of figuring out or getting something, the need to keep feeling these sensations.

She has a very youthful, almost childlike face, the bob works perfectly.

As Einar and Lili, Redmayne has a likable and almost childlike innocence, with that unmistakable voice — the huskiest voice in British cinema since Roger Livesey.

There is a lot of space in it, and though the melody is simple and almost childlike, there is a tremendous amount of sadness and longing underneath.

I feel like apply foundation and BB / CC creams with my fingers is almost childlike.

I felt so light, energetic, upbeat and almost childlike.

Published the following year, just six months before he died, it shows that he retained an undiminished, almost childlike passion for his research.

«It's almost a childlike innocence — you ask questions that adults might never ask, because they have a background where the question is no longer appropriate,» says Harmit Singh Malik, an assistant member of the Seattle - based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's basic science division.

His almost childlike attitude to taking on defenders was a source of pure ecstasy for both Liverpool and football fans in general, in which he would always look for the nutmeg, as if he was on the playground or back on the streets of Uruguay.

The pre-Socratic response to this experience was essentially poetic: not an attempt to devise a hierarchy of categories by which to capture the event in a cage of human concepts but, rather, an attempt to name the event of being in its mystery, with an almost childlike innocence, in a language of purest immediacy.

«He was perhaps the most saintly philosopher I have ever known,» he said, «gentle, kind, honest, almost childlike.

There's an old hymn that's almost childlike in its simplicity.

This classic carol (almost childlike in its rumination on the birth of Christ by barnyard animals) is given a fun twist by Sufjan and his guests (including My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden).

«It's almost childlike, the belief that people have in the market sometimes, thinking that somehow the market is efficient,» D'Alessandro says.

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all of your questions, which are childlike, can be answered on almost any site with information on evolution.

And it is almost cute in it's childlike view of the world.

The childlike voice of the narrator invests poverty with an almost natural quality akin to the weather.

She added many of the tattoos after she got clean, and she's thankful for that, given that she prefers pretty or childlike, almost innocent art, to the skulls and black roses she surely would have added during her goth period.

In a story overseen by an editor named Whittaker Chambers, the magazine noted with its typical prose from the period: «[T] here will be dimly discernible, to those who are interested in cause & effect in history, the features of a shy, almost saintly, childlike little man with the soft brown eyes, the drooping facial lines of a world - weary hound, and hair like an aurora borealis... Albert Einstein did not work directly on the atom bomb.

The rest of it (Nacho passing wind when he leaps, Nacho clenching his ass, Nacho drawing childlike pictures, Nacho taking a dump, Nacho blowing raspberries, Nacho replicating the eagle - egg gag from Chris Farley's Almost Heroes, Nacho calling his shirt a blouse) is unimaginative juvenilia marked by a strange obsession with loud foods and a peculiar preoccupation with eye violence.

Apatow knows a good story and shows once again that his characterisation is way deeper than any of Sandler's mindless childlike sociopaths, like Little Nicky and almost every one of his creations.

Freddie begins the film as not only childlike, but almost primal.

Irons brings such flair and, eventually, childlike charm to his performance you feel almost grateful.

In fact, it's almost painful to watch the gang blame the latter's childlike clumsiness for their conundrum.

Far more delicate - seeming in person than on the screen, Ms. Swinton is dressed in a loose brown shirt that she'll pull over her legs, knees folded against her chest, several times during the course of our conversation — a charming, almost alarmingly childlike pose from an actress I most readily associate with ferocious, audacious turns in Derek Jarman's free - verse celluloid poetry and best - of - bad - movie appearances in everything from Vanilla Sky to The Beach to The Statement.

It's almost cute when an author says, «I just want to write,» because it's so naive and childlike.

«Everyone use to laugh at me,» he exclaims in an almost pathetic, childlike voice.

His ominous tableaux of childlike figures lost in ceramic landscapes combine a sweet nostalgia for youth with an almost masochistic relish for history's decay.

Miró was playful, scatological, sophisticated and childlike — and apparently almost effortless as an artist.

An almost gleeful nihilism turns childlike adornment to a symbol for mass murder, cultural rot and the temporal decay of pictorial language.