A cool balanced tone, not flat or empty or dead, or even childish.

Steel's Samnorsk was as creaky as ever, the tones childish and whiny.

A chorus of coughing, not as violent as her own, erupted all around her and then Bunny's voice grumbled in a sleepy-headed childish tone, 'Ouch, your finger's in my eye.

Rebecca winced at the childish tone she heard in her own voice.

He's clever, my father," she added, in an odd childish tone that was wistful and at the same time challenging.

Heidi Grant Murphy sang "Das himmlische Leben," the finale's faintly ironic vision of heavenly life, in very much the "childish, cheerful" tone Mahler requested.

Once again the war has been reduced to the status of a game, Hector's childish and immature tone shows:

This was as much as the Mahdi could bear; and when Israel turned to him, and said in almost a childish tone, "I suppose there is no help for it now, sir.

Her "childish and agonized tone" couldn't be farther from Uwargida's in "The Story of Day and Night," which is "soft, yet commanding," and keeps her family rapt.

I just-" In injured and rather childish tones: "Gosh almighty, it makes me tired the way everybody says I sound huffy when I just talk natural!