Was it the sweetness of the Bizet score that drew this strangely childlike pas de deux from Balanchine?

Set to and inspired by music by Steve Reich, "Fase" is a suite of three duets and a solo that are both obsessional and strangely childlike.

It was a strangely childlike gesture, and it did nothing to make me feel better.

But they were fairly soft pounds, packed into a glossy blue one-piece uniform that, combined with those gooey eyes and his straw-colored hair, gave him a strangely childlike appearance.

Wheaton bites his lip, the gesture strangely childlike.

They went on board without the slightest sign of mistrust, and with only an expression of mild wonder on their beautiful and strangely childlike faces.

He rubbed at his right eye with his fist, a gesture strangely childlike and poignant.

He put it into his mouth and sucked on it, the gesture strangely childlike.

She was slender, high-breasted and narrow-hipped, strangely childlike to me, though fully a woman.

"Gerhardt Dengler" "Take us in, Herr Dengler," she-- suggested, in a strangely childlike voice.