In spite of the darkness of the subject matter, the storytelling voice is coy and restrained, and the language is simple, almost childlike, as though Hill means to soften the ceaseless blows.
It is also expressed in a particular verbal style that has been dominant in British comedy and criticism for a couple of decades now, and of which Moran is a prominent proponent: ebullient, bug-eyed, prone to deliberately unwieldy metaphors and language at once childlike and ironically formal, hectically heightened to evade any suspicion of sentimentality or solemn self-regard.
DropBox is using childlike illustrations as a visual language, and by doing so differentiate themselves from other storage services.
Perhaps because of her dog's size, Winnie's sense of proportion is slightly askew, as is her sense of language, in a charmingly childlike way that only her put-upon father seems to find annoying.
Ms. Spears has a reasonably good generic voice in the childlike mode of today's street-savvy pop cookies, fluid body language and endless stamina.
At first she sounds like Bjork -- astonishingly so, with a piercingly nasal, childlike voice, pronouncing English forcefully and awkwardly, as if it were her second language.
He admitted he rather regretted his use of colourful language after he attacked Mrs May's use of "laughable and childlike" examples to criticise the Human Rights Act after she claimed an illegal immigrant escaped being deported because he had a pet cat.
Because in the end to learn a language, to feel connected to it, you have to have a dialogue, however childlike, however imperfect.
