Sentence examples for childlike character from inspiring English sources

The compounds give Esperanto a playful, almost childlike, character.

(Respighi, a man of essentially childlike character, didn't need to ingratiate himself with Mussolini; Il Duce was always a big fan).

Kaikai, a childlike character in a rabbit costume, and Kiki, an impish figure with three eyes and two dangling fangs, were ready to greet the parade-watching public.

"And I said, 'Oh wow, I watched it at Christmas and absolutely loved it.' Subconsciously I must have taken in this supreme childlike character.

(Respighi, a man of essentially childlike character, didn't need to ingratiate himself with Mussolini; Il Duce was always a big fan). But "Feste" is nothing if not a great vehicle to show off a fantastic young orchestra's powers.

To some of us, Geraldine Page will always be Sook, Truman Capote's aging, childlike character, but in Glenn Jordan's nostalgia-rich television version of A CHRISTMAS MEMORY (1997), Patty Duke does a more than creditable job in that role.

And works on paper — what does that mean?" Two of those works on paper are traditional graphite drawings by Marie McCann-Barab depicting childlike characters in an outdoor landscape.

She loved the film "Black Orpheus," which her son later found so patronizing to the "childlike" characters that he wanted to walk out of the theatre.

"I imagined it in the style of a 'West Side Story' or a 'Saturday Night Fever,' with these almost childlike characters who the audience will want to root for," Mr. Stallone said.

The information revealed in the dialogue is important, and so uncomfortable that it's hard to imagine its being vocalized without the intercession of toys, which allow Ms. Tominaga's childlike characters to say things they wouldn't otherwise.

Through her expatriate narrator's nostalgia for an innocent Philippines populated by childlike characters, Hagedorn cedes authentic history to the corrosive powers of assimilationism and consumerism.