One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.

While he is worldly, the musician often cultivates public attitudes of childlike astonishment and naivete.

Phoebe is childlike and innocent in disposition.

She is mature beyond her years, but she still clings to childlike practices.

is a children's museum founded in 2006 whose sole mission is to surround children and the adults in their lives with a hands-on, interactive, playful and educational environment that invites curiosity, allows exploration, encourages participation and celebrates the childlike wonder in us all.

The situation is now a reversal of parent-child roles, in which Lear ’ s madness is essentially a childlike rage from being deprived of maternal care.

However, Spiner has opined that he is too old to continue playing the part, as Data embodies a " childlike innocence " that Spiner can no longer credibly exhibit, as his appearance had already begun to lose that quality by the time he filmed his last Trek films.

Little Margie also dwells in the Immateria alongside Case and the other past Prometheas, where she is regarded as little more than a pest who interrupts " serious " conversation with her childlike observations, styled after the remarks of the character Nemo in the early 20th-century newspaper strip Little Nemo in Slumberland.

The attitude of the Chassidim themselves towards these legends is an unusual blend of suspicion on one hand, and childlike, almost naïve belief on the other.

Eshu is recognized as a trickster and is childlike, while Eleggua is Eshu under the influence of Obatala.

In some parts of the world, backyard cricket ( and other similar games ) is one of the very few truly childlike activities that modern adults may participate in without attracting social stigma, and one of the dwindling number of adult activities that are accessible to children.

For instance, the Goron and Zora are allowed to exit Clock Town at will, whereas the Deku Scrub is not permitted to leave by reason of his childlike resemblance.

The core of both book and movie is the childlike innocence of Mouche / Lili and her simple conviction that she is interacting directly with the puppets themselves, which have some kind of existence separate from the puppeteer.

Naïve art is a classification of art that is often characterized by a childlike simplicity in its subject matter and technique.

He is well-intentioned, friendly, childlike, good-natured, high-spirited, frequently obtuse, and prone to quipping odd, dim remarks and " inspirational " speeches filled with bizarre metaphors.

Sun Wukong's childlike playfulness is a huge contrast to his cunning mind.

The copy, quickly labeled " Bizarro ", is a flawed imitation as it possesses chalky white skin and childlike erratic behavior.

He is kindhearted and childlike, and although he has trouble distinguishing good, evil or harm, he wishes to protect innocents in the same way as Superman.

While Parker and Stone portray Kyle as having common childlike tendencies, his dialogue is often intended to reflect stances and views on more adult-oriented issues, and has been frequently cited in numerous publications by experts in the fields of politics, religion, pop culture, and philosophy.

In the course of his investigation he jumps at the wrong clues, in his reasoning he carefully eliminates the wrong suspects, and finally he arrives at a conclusion concerning the identity of Manderson's murderer which turns out to be completely wrong ( though Trent is not presented as a bumbler at all ).

Binghamton's enthusiastic assistant is the sycophantic Lieutenant Elroy Carpenter ( Bob Hastings, a Bilko veteran ), who, at times, is shown to be just as much of a bumbler ( and as by-the-book ) as Parker.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

but there is a leavening of liberalism among college graduates throughout the South, especially among those who studied in the North.

but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

It is the gradual unfolding and deepening of this contradiction which creates the inner dialectic of the evolution of the mystery story.

It is the growing contradiction between individualism and public service in the mystery story which creates this fatal dilemma.

Apparently academic challenge in the structured setting creates an optimum of stress so that the child with high anxiety is able to achieve because he is aroused to an energetic state without becoming confused or panicked.

Their presence is not as frightening as the discontent which creates their opportunity.

`` They are determined '', Montgomery writes, `` not to be surprised again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness among other nations in the Western Alliance -- not to mention such great suspicions among the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful coexistence or disarmament is not possible ''.

Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts ; however, like the decorative arts, it creates objects where the practical considerations of use are essential — in a way that they are usually not for a painting, for example.

* Salvatore Iro, artist, author of Manifesto Art is ... Shit, a collection of works conceived to decrypt the language of modern and contemporary art, in 2012 creates the artwork Ceci est une pomme, marked by the subheading: " non aristotelian obviousness ".

Someone who creates anagrams is called an anagrammatist.

The pulsatile nature of blood flow creates a pulse wave that is propagated down the arterial tree, and at bifurcations reflected waves rebound to return to semilunar valves and the origin of the aorta.

Additive synthesis is a sound synthesis technique that creates timbre by adding sine waves together.

There is also a fountain ( şadırvan ) where worshipers can perform ritual ablutions before prayer ; the dome over the şadırvan is capped by a skylight which creates a soft, serene light below ; thus playing an important role in the illumination of the large building.

If the rider is sitting upright, the rider's body creates about 75 % of the total drag of the bicycle / rider combination.

In the case of a program that creates document files, a new version of that program (" v2 ") is said to be backward compatible with the old version of the program (" v1 ") when it can both read and write documents that work with v1.

When conjugation is initiated by a signal the relaxase enzyme creates a nick in one of the strands of the conjugative plasmid at the oriT.

Worse, it is not known exactly whether genes have more than one function, which creates uncertainty as to whether replacing such genes is indeed desirable.

It is this portion of the U. S. where corn borer damage creates the greatest economic loss to farmers.

Although something like code books is implied by the model, they are nowhere represented in the model, which creates many conceptual difficulties.

A person who creates software is called a programmer, software engineer, software developer, or " code monkey ", terms that all have a similar meaning.

A monetary authority is created and supported by its sponsoring government, so independence can be reduced by the legislative or executive authority that creates it.

The CRTC regulates all Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications activities and enforces rules it creates to carry out the policies assigned to it ; the best-known of these is probably the Canadian content rules.

9 ( 1 )( c ) of the Radiocommunication Act creates a prohibition against all decoding of encrypted programming signals, followed by an exception where authorization is received from the person holding the lawful right in Canada to transmit and authorize decoding of the signal.