Sentences with phrase «childlike world»

As children became more integrated into the world of acting, grown women weren't able to stay perpetually youthful, safely ensconced in a childlike world, but were forced to grow up themselves, usurped by younger counterparts.

Hank learns that sentiment as he creates a childlike world with his new friend in the middle of the forest, exploring everything he walked away from in his own life.

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

One of the best things my mom passed down to me is an insatiable, childlike curiosity about the world.

A childlike adult, however, aware of no special need to see the world as a Harvard philosopher does, could not help being struck by the marvel that no one denies: that things marvelously are and then are not.

Among Jesus» words there are many sayings which imply a childlike belief in providence and a naïve optimism in his view of nature and the world.

Piaget found an explanation in the fact that initially the childlike subject does not yet differentiate between itself and the object world (RME 155f.).

Some of my favorite things (or «isms») she has passed on to me are my incredibly high tolerance for coffee, the fact that mornings are not for talking (they are for slowly waking up to the world, multiple cups of coffee, mismatched pjs, terrible bedhead, and sleepy eyes), the joy I get from watching old black and white movies and westerns (John Wayne, always), a love for fuzzy socks (sorry Scott), all the weird voices she and I talk to each other in (also, sorry Scott), my love for peppermint patties, a super low - maintenece lifestyle, and the ability to find a childlike happiness in the tiniest of things.

Even the mostcynical and partisan cabinet ministers, diplomats, MPs and lobbyists have beenreduced to staring childlike and agog at the spectacle of the world's mostpowerful democracy selecting its next commander - in - chief.

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.

-- in this case, What If people could grow clones of themselves as organ farms or baby machines, and keep the childlike clones hidden away from the rest of the world in a pretend city?

The film opens on Maud struggling mightily to make a painting that reflects her childlike view of the world.

Sylvie Collier's «To Dance Like a Man» gives a bit of a window into that world, but also works smashingly as just a cinematic delivery vehicle for childlike wonderment as yet unwrecked by puberty.

In a world - this world - where growing up is so often characterized by losing one's childlike sense of wonder, I hope Haynes and all his kindred stargazers never lose sight of the sky.

Like Vietnam War veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) trying to make sense of America in the late 1970s in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) Freddie is similarly childlike, emerging into a world that is recognisable to him, but doesn't fully make sense.

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.

Emotionally powerful and irresistibly page - turning, Escape from the Land of Snows is simultaneously a portrait of the inhabitants of a spiritual nation forced to take up arms in defense of their ideals, and the saga of an initially childlike ruler who at first wore his monk's robes uncomfortably but was ultimately transformed by his escape into the towering figure the world knows today — a charismatic champion of free thinking and universal compassion.

Emotionally powerful and irresistibly page - turning, Escape from the Land of Snows is simultaneously a portrait of the inhabitants of a spiritual nation forced to take up arms in defense of their ideals, and the saga of an initially childlike ruler who was ultimately transformed into the towering figure the world knows today.

The poems in this collection are deeply earnest celebrations of the natural world and are accompanied by fluid, childlike watercolors.

I have a childlike curiosity that has gotten me into deep conversations with strangers, sparked unlikely friendships, and landed me in some pretty cool places across the world.

A failed knife salesman and former member of a prestigious World of Warcraft guild, renowned for his voice and childlike enthusiasm for video games.

Through her voice over, her movements, and her commentary on the world around her, it is highly obvious that she has become a lot more childlike in the game's ten month hiatus.

Each of the game's worlds is beautifully designed in regards to the cartoonish art style, and being able to interact with each one in weird, wonderful ways filled me with a surprising, childlike glee.

The open - world Zelda game «helped us rediscover a childlike sense of adventure and discovery,» said Katie Stern, the General Manager of the Game Developers Conference.

Big - headed - children - likes are about getting big - headed children and childlike characters from one place to another, often (but not exclusively) by moving from left to right in a big, scary world.

Where Nightmare Boy shines most is in its hand drawn Saturday Morning cartoon cel art style and animation, which imparts a sense of childlike wonderment to the nightmarish world themes.

Inspired by Keith Haring, Jasper Johns, Frida Kahlo and Jean - Michel Basquiat, there's a dichotomy in the work of University of Texas at El Paso Fine Arts graduate Jesus Arturo Gardea, the result of his penchant for a childlike view of the world, coupled with the often - violent environment in which he grew up.

Stephen Foster, of the Haida Nation in the Pacific Northwest, contributes Raven Brings the Light (2011), an interactive installation that retells the myth of a childlike trickster who breaks the grip of darkness on the world.

She built a house out of paintings and it was the most natural and childlike thing in the world.»

In her playful abstract landscapes, Barbara Demsar paints the natural world with a vivid, childlike optimism.

Juxtaposing elements of cultural familiarity with unsettling circumstances, these paintings portray a world where creatures speak from a place of childlike honesty about the state of mankind.

Crafting intentional imperfections into their work, Carneiro da Cunha and Kristalova subvert the assumed innocence of childlike expression and suggest history's dark potential to repeat itself if children (or adults) are told falsehoods about the simplistic nature of the world.

The ability to evoke both the burdens of existence and a childlike appreciation of the world around him defines Andy Holden's unique approach to how an artist should go about their practice.

Her latest works leads through the history of the earth, from its birth to today's fast - paced world, conjuring dreamlike scenes full of childlike wonder.

His main goals in music are to never stop childlike enthusiasm and to free the world from the boring jazz.

My inspiration always comes from the natural world as I really do have a childlike sense of wonder and awe for everything that nature creates.

Be they inspired by sailboats, Fibonacci spirals or built as prefabs, treehouses amuse and delight, bringing grown - ups back into a world of childlike imagination.

Post marriage separation I've rediscovered my childlike delight in the world.