But there is no sound, forcing you to concentrate solely on the horrific events unfolding before you, albeit with a kind of childish simplicity.

Mahler began his Fourth in a mode of apparently childish simplicity, at which initial audiences scoffed.

"When you said you wanted never to marry me," he replied, with a childish simplicity.

What went straight to his heart was the childish simplicity with which it was written.

Von Sternberg recognised the conflict within her: 'Her personality was one of extreme sophistication and of an almost childish simplicity,' he wrote.

This childish simplicity would be amusing if he and his fellow Jacobins had not had the army and the guillotine to back it up.

If I laughed, it may have been at your childish simplicity.

In some ways he has the adult viewpoint; but, of course, childish simplicity dominates, as with every normal boy of twelve.

Reducing Iraq to childish simplicities was good for America when war was being sold.

The shy smile with which he welcomed Yosh hinted at a childish simplicity.