childlike

The development reinforced the musician's image as a fragile, almost childlike figure, who nonetheless inspired thousands of musicians to follow in his steps.

Parks-Ramage doesn’t come to a specific conclusion, and although some of his more righteous characters seem to be firmly on the reproduction-is-immoral side, his depiction of Gabriel’s childlike wonder and imagination is tender and loving.

The 20th-century version of the "bimbo" was dim, but almost always good-hearted, exhibiting a childlike generosity to others.

When Reubens first hit upon the childlike, toy-obsessed Pee-wee character at the Groundlings, Newman said, “He knew he had something he could draw on so easily, because he was a 10-year-old boy at heart.”

“Rennie was immediately flooded with a childlike burst of relief as she looked upon her mother. She’s back; she’s here to explain things — And then she remembers that Vivian is dead.”