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They mock her middle-class wardrobe, love of sugary candy and general childlikeness.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021

If any artist loses that childlikeness, you lose a lot of creative juice.

From Time Magazine Archive

For it is his childlikeness that makes him our God and Father.

From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by MacDonald, George

"He that sees the essential in this child, the pure childhood, sees that which is the essence of me," grace and truth—in a word, childlikeness.

From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by MacDonald, George

If we bear in mind this natural and instinctive childlikeness in Shelley, we have the clue to almost all his inconsistencies and entanglements.

From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher