Sentences with phrase «childlike wonder»

Hardingham's narration gives this story a hint of childlike wonder mixed with the horror of living with tuberculosis.

In the opening scene, Elisa is asleep in a room filled with water as the narrator, whom we later find out is her neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins, «White House Down»), describes her as a princess in a fairy tale and Alexandre Desplat's score persuades us that the world is filled with childlike wonder, but it is a hard sell.

The movie doesn't always work — in fact, it's sometimes as messy as the characters that inhabit it — but it's also the type of magical cinematic experience that, just like fellow countryman Cuarón's «Gravity,» you can only gaze in childlike wonder as it unfolds before you.

Through enchantment we regain, as Tolkien says, «a clear view» — we recover the optics of insight into the human spirit and rediscover childlike wonder at the glory of being.

Remember being a kid, shaking those things up, and watching in childlike wonder as the snow swirled around that magical scene?

There's no better place to fuel childlike wonder — where noise is A-OK!

Spielberg created and was part of so many things that made my childhood imagination explode with possibilities that even now, as a grown woman, I still get a bit of childlike wonder when his name is attached.

It inspires childlike wonder when exploring its world, from the larger - than - life characters to its intricately - bizarre puzzle designs.

This Phillip K. Dick inspired adventure from writer / director Mike Pappa is seen through the gaze of a young boy, touching upon childlike wonder and curiosity, while exploring such themes as fathers & sons, and the invisible wounds of war.

A truly timeless family favourite, Back To The Future is one of those universally charming movies filled with an eternal childlike wonder that will never go out of style.

In a visually sumptuous journey through the master's imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power plant meltdown smothers a seaside landscape in radioactive fumes.

The modern visuals, strike closer to Valiant Hearts or Rayman Legends than it does its 8 - bit source, but what the new aesthetic translates so well into the modern day is just how childlike Wonder Boy always was.

The park's tycoon master, a more sympathetic character than in Michael Crichton's bestselling novel, watches on as his technical marvels of childlike wonder begin tearing his audience to shreds.

There's a real childlike wonder in this game and it hits a lot harder than you think it would.

Our latest batch of throwbacks has you barreling through platforming perils as the king of swing, putting pink puff balls through dreamscape golf courses and recapturing a sense of childlike wonder alongside psychic powered children.

You can cause her to jump, but she'll always be moving to the right through gorgeous environments that look hand - drawn and invoke the same sense of childlike wonder found in Yoshi's Island.

For each object players swallow, the hole grows a little bit larger — evoking a sense of childlike wonder through order & scale.

I experience the same childlike wonder as I'm sure everyone does as it falls, but then you're left with cold, wet slush everywhere and you're trapped in the house.

I feel like our forest and sea Christmas is a special way to stitch together our favorite life memories and best of all, the quirkiness of our style helps bring childlike wonder to our home.

Part of what drives Nyong» o to stay moving and curious in her physical practice stems from her affinity with childlike wonder.

Full of the same sense of magic and childlike wonder as something like James Horner's The Rocketeer, it's truly a gem and worth the price of the CD alone - not that there isn't plenty of other music to make it worthwile!

As a framing device, it allows del Toro to approach his monster (s) from a place of childlike wonder and tenderness, without having to account for the corrupt inclinations that come with adulthood.

«I will restore your sense of childlike wonder,» he vows.

The countdown of advent services and the countdown of the advent calendar filled with chocolates share more than a name because we should have the childlike wonder of children as we think about the true meaning of this season.

It has an air of spiritual fatigue about it — a deep longing for a return to innocence, to immediacy, to childlike wonder and to the child's delight in speaking the names of things: a wise simplicity not yet corrupted by those empty concepts that distance us from the world.

Through enchantment, the product of fantasy, we adults begin to retrieve the childlike wonder we had deposited in the litter basket of our mental past.

It's great to wonder at the grandeur and glory of the universe, the childlike wonder, the Stephen Jay Gould wonder, the Einsteinian wonder.

Adventure that was created and fueled quite simply: with nothing more than the great outdoors and my childlike wonder exploring it.

Playful Leo is all about awe and childlike wonder.

Leo also rules play, romance and childlike wonder, and we could all use a dose...

Leo also rules play, romance and childlike wonder, and we could all use a dose of that now.

And yet, I gazed upon the ensemble in all its perfectly - tailored double - breasted glory with childlike wonder, mouth agape.

Although there's a bit more red tape and bureaucracy involved than when I was digging up critters in my backyard and discovering the process of earthworm regeneration with childlike wonder, the basic idea is still the same.

Along with childlike wonder I carry childish mischief that only arises in some annoying but minor ways.

For «A Crimson Man,» Mike Pappa was not only inspired by the works of Philip K. Dick, but from reading stories of veterans dealing with PTSD, and the childlike wonder and curiosity in the films he loved growing up.

The story of Caroll Spinney is told from a perspective tinged with nostalgia and childlike wonder.

It's his toothy grin and duplicitous insults that make this film into a very lewd comedy, though he does spar with Bejo a number of times, and seems reverent of his co-stars with maturity and childlike wonder.

In plunging a child into the horrors of war, Spielberg treads the same ground as in Empire of the Sun — but this time, the childlike wonder at the destruction, the grandeur of war, are nowhere to be found.

The iconic original film means so much to me personally, and I look forward to creating an original movie musical that can bring Mary Poppins, and her message that childlike wonder can be found in even the most challenging of times, to a whole new generation,» said Rob Marshall in a statement.

After a couple of years, she's a self - sufficient preteen with a childlike wonder about the world.

Once he returns into Bruce Banner's body, we get to see a more confused side of Banner, but one that comes with this childlike wonder that hasn't been explored in past.

The iconic original film means so much to me personally, and I look forward to creating an original movie musical that can bring Mary Poppins, and her message that childlike wonder can be found in even the most challenging of times, to a whole new generation,» says Marshall in the news release.

Furthermore, in protagonist Roy Neary (portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss) we arguably have a warts and all portrait of Spielberg himself - a man with a determined, all - consuming vision, who's in possession of an eternal, childlike wonder.

Will Burt recover his childlike wonder?

This should be a cause for celebration but somehow his stint into more serious fair has muted his childlike wonder.

The Good Dinosaur is a road movie, a sweet one at that, with hyperrealistic backdrops, cartoonish characters, and childlike wonder.

There is some conceptual weight to drive the film along: an homage to silent cinema, an index of Todd Hayne's filmography, a flight of fancy along the road of childlike wonder and a favourable gesture of the impossible... but none of this adds up to a feature film, and instead Wonderstruck comes off about as insightfully as a cluttered brainstorm session from a writer's blocked first grader who can't quite figure out what his thoughts are all about.

The iconic original film means so much to me personally, and I look forward to creating an original movie musical that can bring Mary Poppins, and her message that childlike wonder can be found in even the most challenging of times, to a whole new generation,» Marshall said in a statement.