All of these endearingly childlike features are carefully calculated to evoke the maternal instincts of Kismet's human companions.

The demanding schedule began to take its toll on Curly in particular, whose childlike facial features began to show the strain.

CHAPTER VI Unforgettable Land Wonderfully lovely she was, with elfin, childlike features that somehow held a certain sophistication, and even a suggestion of inherent, latent cruelty.

A German police officer had assumed that Ostermann, with his childlike features, was actually a schoolboy who was playing a prank and illegally wearing a Luftwaffe uniform and military decorations.

Anteac stared intently at Yake while the Fish Speaker, a young woman with smooth, almost childlike features, delivered her message: "He told me to remind you: 'Return quickly if I summon you.'

I closed them again and, for an instant, thought I saw her lovely face in front of me: those childlike features, her dark brown eyes.

Psychological and social research on facial attractiveness has pointed out that the presence of childlike facial features increases attractiveness.

Moonlight painted her features with a shiny, tubercular pallor, pinched childlike features in an almost triangular face.

They have more lifelike proportions, smaller heads and eyes, and less childlike, more distinctive facial features.

It may be, as evolutionary biologists would argue, that it is the childlike features of the baby seal - its large eyes and so on - that on a deep genetic level give us a predisposition towards empathy with them.