| My stomach was a tight knot of dread, fear and something very close to the child-like terror I used to feel for the dark. |
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| Infants brighten up in her presence and mothers listen to her with almost child-like zealousness. |
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| Milly, who had red hair which was always worn in a ponytail, and brown eyes, still had a child-like mentality. |
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| He is trotted out to play a hulking but child-like soldier to no great effect. |
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| The child-like simplicity of the slow movement is rendered as a lullaby, and the finale has punch without the application of brute force. |
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| When you meet him, he's essentially a very large child who enjoys being child-like. |
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| He was convinced of his intellectual prowess, yet possessed of a child-like sensitivity to criticism. |
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| Therefore, as much as is possible, there should be an attitude of child-like simplicity where one is open to the unknown. |
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| In Ontario and Saskatchewan, animal care councils have purchased child-like robots that open the door to talk to the public about livestock care. |
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| She has a child-like curiosity about everything and a great ability to pick on things. |
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| If buttercups are child-like, and bugbanes are adults, the baneberries are the crazy in-laws. |
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| There's something very child-like about him. |
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| Running can be simple and child-like and brilliant. |
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| There's certainly a child-like quality about her. |
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| Before the two could get on with their innocent, child-like play, however, a loud clap of thunder echoed throughout the skies, which had turned dark from a while ago. |
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| At the film's beginning, the juvenile protagonists ride a Ferris wheel and fantasize about traveling to the sea, a child-like sentiment never to be repeated. |
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| The little shy sounds of Schumann are constantly forgetting that they are shy or child-like and strutting out boastfully in an ineffective dash or prance. |
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| To the dreamy melody of a Beethoven piano sonata, a child-like model rummaged through a trunk overflowing with clothes on a set designed as a girl's bedroom. |
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| In general, he was not so much autistic as child-like, artlessly pleased with himself, insistent on being the centre of attention. |
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| Jane Horrocks, all doe-eyed, child-like trustfulness, plays this perfectly. |
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| But on their off hours, they embrace 'kawaii,' the trend of dressing in a cute, almost child-like style, to flaunt individuality. |
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| Gosling subtly allows Dean's eager, child-like charisma to become, if not soured, then shopworn, played-out. |
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| Whatever the reason, women in polite company are required to speak with child-like voices an octave or so higher than normal. |
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| Cure takes these ideas and adds the innocence of a child-like amnesiac behind them, an amnesiac who walks through a trail of death without ever bloodying his own hands. |
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| Runaround's rough-and-ready approach would probably be considered too much for modern audiences, who seem to like their presenters as unthreatening and child-like as possible. |
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| Ruth Devlin announced that the song must wait, though it appeared to be innocuous and child-like in its sentiments. |
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