Sentences with phrase «in childlike»

Hold His hand in childlike trust, and the way before you will open up step by step.

Let your hair down and engage yourself in childlike play with your partner.

Varda's cinematic imagination has remained, so a few works revel in the childlike glee that sometimes accompanies filmmaking.

Wistful cloudscapes etch themselves out in childlike innocence, as bright washes of color animate simple polyester — shifting surfaces that flirt with the otherworldly through accessible means.

House Sutra: From Cape Town to Kathmandu, 2006, presents a schematic image of a house, filled with white lines in a childlike scrawl.

Emma Rivers's dollhouse - like dioramas house secrets and unsettling memories in childlike yet intricate details, equipped with furnishing, lights and photographs from her past.

With this ambitious new environment, Hancock comes full circle, merging his own backstory with his created mythology in a carnival-esque space where viewers can revel in spectacle, get lost in childlike wonder, and learn to believe — while simultaneously contemplating how we build and share faith, mythology, information, and community.

Our art director Niv Touboul designed the blobs to be cute for the player to relate to them, but not in a childlike manner, so their deaths would be funny and not tragic.

Illustrated with a mix of portrait photos and a few paintings in childlike or abstract styles, and capped by suggestions for related classroom activities and a short resource list, this book will serve as both an effective consciousness raiser for middle - grade students and a strong lead - in to Deborah Ellis» powerful Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees (2009).

When Phillip loses his imaginary best friend, Brock — a barrel - chested tough guy rendered in childlike crayon — they're both distraught, but Anne and her best friend, Princess Sparkledust, save the day.

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.

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.

Part of the mailing features an aerial photo of Asphalt Green, the recreation complex that stands to be bisected by the MTS, with arrows indicating the proximity between a «kid's playground» and «where all the trucks will go» in a childlike typeface.

In no sense is this to engage in childlike idealism.

We can now think of God not as the threatening judge but as the waiting father, and we can come to him in heart - broken penitence but nonetheless in childlike confidence and trust.

«How does a smart woman like Slaughter still believe in the childlike notion that people (of either gender) can have whatever they want whenever they want it, regardless of life's intrinsic constraints?

I would describe it as a kind of unspoken contract whereby ordained clergy take leadership responsibility, and lay people defer to that arrangement, too often in a childlike way.

In childlike faith, she wanted to go to the cross.

The motivation behind hype for 3 - D technology is to keep even grown - up audiences in a childlike, gee - whiz mode, constantly hankering for what is only superficially new.

Isaac asks presumably in childlike wonder; Abraham's answer gives authoritative, fatherly, and pious reassurance.

In her childlike trust, she believed my mother and the thing is, I did, too.

Not exact matches

In one way it's sort of good to always have that childlike perspective.

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

Others joked that the name was childlike for a tech company with a market cap that was, at the time, in excess of $ 300 billion.

Remember that childlike part of yourself that put your happiness first; well, you are still in there (likely under a barrage of self - doubt and anxiety), but your inner child still exists.

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).

i need to be childlike in my wonder of spirituality.

We all start out in some sort of childlike innocence.

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

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

But in a culture like ours, where parents have very little time to spend with their children, and where an obsessive pursuit of youth has caused an 800 percent increase in cosmetic surgical procedures in ten years, a focus on becoming childlike at Christmas seems guaranteed to skew the message of the incarnation.

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

The earliest fathers were often somewhat naive, somewhat childlike in some ways, but those qualities enabled them to hold on to the truth they had learned from the Apostles and apostolic men with a ferocity that I doubt would be much reflected in our day under similar persecutions.

In discussing Mozart's genius, Barth says he thinks Mozart's music has a religious dimension — «a childlike knowledge of the center of all things - including the knowledge of their beginning and their end.

The aim was «purity of heart,» or a simple, childlike openness to God and others that was rooted in rocklike faith.

Maybe if I read the book I would understand... I DO understand it is childlike / childish to believe in a man - in - the - sky - god that solves all our problems.

It is difficult to convey how touching, for instance, the character of Orlando is in some respects: especially his utter naïveté regarding» and childlike faith in» women (the very characteristic that will lead, in Ariosto's epic, to the madness that gives the poem its title).

Counselors specializing in women's issues regularly point out the need for women to be in touch with their childlike side, which hungers for care, joy and play.

In a very childlike way they are happy with their fairy stories and their promise of the magical place at the end of the rainbow where they will go when they die.

Lazar Gulkowitsch writes of Buber's early poetic recreations of Hasidism: «Since Martin Buber is a poet who himself inclines to mysticism, Hasidism in his representation takes on an all too mysterious colouring while its natural childlike quality and its sheer naïveté do not receive adequate emphasis.»

No, Jesus instructs us to pray in a simple childlike manner because God is our Father.

While I have a deep appreciation for beautifully worded prayers (and share in them on occasion), I'm convinced that the prayer the Father longs for is one of childlike simplicity flowing from a heart of confidence and trust in the One who knows us better and more intimately than we know ourselves.

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.

He insists in his sunny prattle that he is «a mere child,» while he is fact a grotesque parasite: a colossal tick, a leech, a tapeworm with a taste for Mozart, who, it turns out, is childlike in his pursuit of pleasure, but shrewd and willful in his studied neglect of responsibility.

In some ways, I am still very simple and childlike: Jesus is still my teacher, still the one I want to follow to the ends of the earth.

I have read it over and over again when I need to remember wonder, love, and innocence, needed to be childlike in my faith and actions.

I have said enough, I hope, to show why so many of us feel so immensely indebted to this layman, perhaps the greatest exemplar of the Catholic laity in the last two centuries — a master of many wisdoms, a metaphysician, a philosopher at once humane and Christian, an ethicist and philosopher of history, a political philosopher, a saintly and childlike man.

Early in the film, childlike, she asks the family doctor, «Does the soul have a body?»

The ethical life which Jesus exalts in many of his most characteristic teachings is the ethical life of the penitent: the kingdom of God belongs to the poor in spirit, the meek, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, those who seek mercy, the childlike, the humble.

The pure in heart, the childlike, the merciful, the meek and those who love justice, the peacemakers and those who are faithful unto death — of such will God's kingdom be.