"Childlike enthusiasm" refers to the innocent and joyful excitement that children often display when they discover or engage in something they love.
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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.
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.
In one of the film's most endearing scenes, Arthur dances with
childlike enthusiasm at a «Death Of Glitter» tribute concert.
It's the kind
of childlike enthusiasm for the magic of filmmaking that you'd wish every director had for his craft.
A failed knife salesman and former member of a prestigious World of Warcraft guild, renowned for his voice and
childlike enthusiasm for video games.
Although Sweeney is unique in describing the tactile bonds that tied him to fundamentalism, each writer experienced certainty and embraced the absolute doctrines of the faith with either
childlike enthusiasm or a careful adult decision.
What makes Payton's style even more appealing is
his childlike enthusiasm, that irrepressible drumbeat.
Constantly emphasizing its own artificiality, the film speaks with
both childlike enthusiasm and mature life experience.