Humor unlocks the office prison because it lets adults bring some of their childlike spirit to the job, according to Howard Pollio, professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
And then sort of without us noticing his voice kind of as he became more childlike in the scripts and as he became more of a kid in some of the stories.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living.
And my grandma, who at that time still had moments of knowing who I was, took on a very, like, childlike countenance in being like, " Yes, it's totally normal that someone is here to change me into my pajamas."
It was Yu Hua's first trip to the city, and he responded to the neon lights in Times Square, attending his first Broadway show, and visiting a jazz club in the West Village with almost childlike excitement.
You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? she purred in her childlike voice, as she sat spread-eagle in a pair of his jeans and a taupe blouse.
As the figure's persona became more childlike, artistic depictions of him started to look younger, and in the Hellenistic period he fully transformed from a young man to a rosy-cheeked baby.
Somebody's watching and waiting for him, Yearning to hold him again to her heart; And there he lies, with his blue eyes dim, And the smiling, childlike lips apart.
All in all, it was just such a refreshing experience to me, one that really captured that almost childlike sense of joy that we don't often get anymore.