Sentences with phrase «more childlike»

Now, it's nautical but I'd like to go more childlike for my grandkids!!!!

About Blog I learned to knit as a child but abandoned it for more childlike activities.

These are brightly colored exotic forms, somewhat reminiscent of late Miro and of Niki de Saint Phalle, but if anything, more childlike in feeling.

I want them to open their minds and be more childlike again.»

Handheld gaming in America is seen as more childlike and less commonplace.

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.

I guess my resolution is to explore and feel more childlike and wondrous about life.

Whatever the exact age range, most experts agree that children are «tweens» by the American fifth grade (approximately age 10) at which time they typically begin to reject more childlike images and associations and aspire to be more like a teenager.

He gives Ned an insouciant amiability that doesn't feel sentimental — just laidback, more childlike than childish, and oddly assured.

Likewise, Rory also played the more childlike version of his brother's title character in Richie Rich.

And adults who felt as if they had children's bodies processed perceptual information and aspects of themselves as being more childlike.

It seems obvious that your religious leaders would want you to be more childlike and trusting because it's much easier to lead when the followers don't think for themselves.

Not exact matches

Disorganized schizophrenia symptoms may include: Problems with thinking and expressing ideas clearly Childlike behavior Showing little emotion Catatonic schizophrenia symptoms may include: Lack of activity Muscles and posture may be rigid Grimaces or other odd expressions on the face Does not respond much to other people Undifferentiated schizophrenia symptoms may include symptoms of more than one other type of schizophrenia.

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.

The image of mentally retarded people as innocent, childlike creatures who can do no deliberate wrong is only one of many simplistic ways of describing them that have done more harm than good.

We do not have to decide at this point if, and in which regard, the early childlike interpretation of reality in the mode of «ontological egocentricity» is more adequate or more inadequate than the later object - oriented perception of reality.

What he sees may vary all the way from his wife's childlike dependence upon her mother's opinion, the mother - in - law's hesitancy to ask him a question directly for fear of his explosive reaction, to the mother - in - law's attempt to downgrade him in his daughter's eyes because of her wish to have a more vital part in her granddaughter's life.

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.

Vettori is pretty tough, too, but he also has a shy, childlike streak that makes him seem younger than he is and far more vulnerable than Felder.

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

Mr. Galifianakis is the childlike loser whose borderline - creepy non sequiturs are more hilarious the less sense they make.

The characters are an entertaining group of misfits, of particular note is central protagonist and narrator Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with aspirations of stability, and of happiness in his life, but who is utterly unable to survive without «one more hit», the violent and psychotic Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who refuses to take heroin but makes up for not doing drugs by «doing people» instead, and the childlike Spud (Ewan Bremner), the innocent fool of the group, and the most vulnerable to peer pressure.

That said, he hasn't been delivering that many of these types of films for quite some time now, choosing instead to focus on more dramatic material but I'm happy to say that he still possesses that childlike imagination and adventurous touch.

But Day - Lewis also lays bare the peevishness behind the smile — the arrogance, the contempt and, most of all, the childlike fragility that both aggravates Alma and keeps her coming back for more.

To most people, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking - Glass evokes images of childlike fantasy, which makes its use in Signs and Wonders even more ambitious.

Creed follows its predecessor Rocky in contrasting the violence of boxing with the childlike guilelessness of the boxer, but Jordan plays Donny with even more vulnerability and innocent need than Stallone did: his tough fighter persona is a pumped - up performance, and not a very convincing one at that.

But it's hard not to see the film as implicitly valorizing his poetic male solemnity as somehow more dignified than Laura's childlike, excitable over-activity.

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.

The Apatow guy tends to be underemployed, white, Jewish (or Canadian), slobby, geeky, smelly, childish (not just «childlike») and more or less happy, unaware that he's desperate for a woman to complete him.

Growing stronger and more agile with time, Benjamin's body may look old but he has a childlike curiosity and is intrigued by the young granddaughter of one of the women in the care center.

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

This Blu - ray edition of The Royal Tenenbaums loses the more marketable cast photo of the DVD, giving us only the childlike Eric Chase Anderson illustration below it in line with Criterion's other Wes Anderson releases.

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.

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 results suggest dogs have evolved childlike facial features which make them more attractive to humans.

«The results of this research suggest that wolves which produced childlike expressions may have been more tolerated by humans, and so modern dogs have inherited these features,» said lead author, Dr Bridget Waller, an expert in the evolution of social communication at the University of Portsmouth.

He has a childlike urge to say things he probably shouldn't, promise features that are, at the time, little more than ideas in his head.

Their deal is much more about innocent surreality and a childlike sense of play.

Children's work is not considered primitive, at least not our own — they are merely childish or wonderful — nor is Rousseau, who is more wonderful than childlike.

Her flat, cartoonish figures have a childlike, storybook quality to them, perhaps allowing the somewhat difficult messages to be more easily absorbed.

Beneath the initial veneer of childlike innocence, however, is an undertone of something more sinister, due in part to the incomplete narratives Kristalova presents us.

The crude, childlike appearance of the Swedish artist's handmade figures and environments renders her work all the more sinister and unsettling.

When Veronica Cham saw her family, she let out a childlike shriek of excitement — and it was all caught on camera and... [more]

It also includes the same 8 - MP and 1.2 - MP cameras found in the 9.7 - inch iPad, but its more compact size may be more suitable for small or childlike hands.

The older we get the more difficult it becomes to rekindle the childlike excitement of the season.