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Sentence Examples I am still naive enough that I'd like our country run on a basis of free speech and civil liberties. She's had a rough childhood and still managed to stay sweet, innocent and a little naive. For example, Daisy is always seen wearing white, which gives her and innocent naive appearance. Maybe it wasn't a coincidence and you're not as innocent or naive as you try to act. Linear simplicity, naive spontaneity, subtlety of tones and interesting techniques mark his abstracts. He picks the naive approach and joyous colours and forms creating a montage of the flora, fauna and people of South Asia. His style seems to represent a point halfway between naive art and Expressionism. In such work his style was colourful and bizarre, sometimes with an almost naive quality of freshness. Like the sculpture, the images represent a very naive viewpoint in the art world. He beat me down on the price. He got a bargain from a naive schoolboy and I still resent him now for that. Those of the left claimed that naive women were seduced into becoming avaricious consumers, beggaring their families. In a naive but expressive style of drawing and understated, tongue-in-cheek text he manages to insert subtle and serious food for thought. John grinned bemusedly, a girly, naive grin that often made the girls back home swoon. Suggesting that design controls might have a racial aspect to them is a touchy topic, however it is naive to pretend that they might not. Whenever I find myself in the middle ground, I usually seem a little lost, trapped as I am between my cynical hatred and my naive love. She remains comically naive even when she is put in a straightjacket and has her hair shorn. It would be naive to imagine that all the needs of transpeople will be met by those who can change things, however they are lobbied. She was not exactly a genteel lady, but she was modest and naive in many respects. Risk reduction through naive diversification improved only modestly compared with the case where all programs were considered. I am not naive, I do not believe life to be as black and white as stated above. Show More Sentences Today, these notions all sound like a naive echo from the era of idealism, manual typewriters, and rotary phones. In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we assume. Like all classification systems, genre typologies are not naive, innocent or objective. The novel shrewdly dissects not only the lurking presence of violence but also its naive simplification in popular media. I know that naive and simplistic but I just feel that while these trees and plants are nice they are out of context. Quantum mechanics contradicts the notion of real only if one takes a naive, simplistic view of reality. But eventually even Willie, naive and unanchored as he is, realises that he must leave. It was naive what was done, uncalled for, and unwanted, but all acted out with the best intentions in mind. Anti-war movements are often sentimental, muddle-headed and politically naive. This one merely requests an explanation. Most medical bodies apart from the BMA are underresourced and naive when it comes to public relations. She has a long speech at the end of the movie, which could have gone very wrong, but she simply delivers it with unfeigned naive honesty. Despite exposure to combat, however, the soldier is innocent, unphilosophical, even naive. Part of the problem with the parliament is, as commentator Iain McWhirter says, naive idealism and, after a 300-year break, unreal expectations. In this model, naive females accompany experienced females to nesting beaches regardless of the natal beach of origin. In the play Othello, the character of Othello has certain traits which make him seem naive and unsophisticated compared to many other people. The term antiquarian tends to carry negative connotations nowadays, of someone with a naive or unsophisticated obsession with the past. Well, you know, in the end it was very naive and unsophisticated to believe that where you come from doesn't matter. Many persons persist with the earlier, naive, view that the role of a definition is only to offer a synonym for the term to be defined. No one should be naive enough to believe these possibilities are unthinkable. Too often those who advocate for openness and tolerance get dismissed as soft-headed or naive, and they can be. Show More Sentences But stigma is an understandable attempt to deal with the fact that people do all kinds of lousy or naive or bullheaded things. Those voices were more voluble and more naive ten years ago than they are today. A Canadian production, it spoofed the entertainment industry via a cast of impossibly naive characters. I was so naive, I thought he was using some cool, mature way to describe going steady or going out. I found the juxtaposition naive, given my background in Stoic philosophy of managing the passions in public life. Any campaign that denies it's doing opposition research is either naive or untruthful. But while some may cavil at this, others may think it gives The Making Of Scotland character and a certain naive charm. Cowger says that being young, naive and anxious to please, when he'd stripped a bolt he would write out a repair ticket. Despite his attempts to seem sophisticated and suave, he is endearingly naive, but also intelligent and thoughtful. It was work that chapped my hands, taxed my muscles, and opened my naive eyes. Now that he has looked at himself closely, the sprinter knows he was naive, headstrong and suggestible. All day he had been devotedly guarding the naive angel, like an ancient dragon watching over a secret hoard of jewels and golden trinkets. Any parent who counts on anyone else to childproof to the point of avoiding responsibility is being naive simply because every kid is different. The play explores children's honest if naive attempts to reconcile conflicts between rules of peer friendship and the expectations of parents. Is the premier naive enough to think that American state governments are going to ignore the needs of their people while he plays politics? Call me naive, but I still have enough faith in human nature to believe that they cannot succeed in this. His style, derived from observations of both art and life, is a more or less naive, expressionistic symbolism. Speaking with the naive innocence of childhood, he asks why mummy and daddy aren't married and on their honeymoon. Is it too naive to hope that if residents were treated as if they too had civil rights, they might behave more responsibly? The scientists of previous generations who refused to patent their breakthrough discoveries were neither naive nor saintly. Show More Sentences In the 1970s I will still a relatively young man, and still very naive and ignorant about the UK book trade. Many of the comments were naive, muddled and ignorant of the realities of international diplomacy. The failed artist, Burton seems to be saying, is not just a hack, but a naive person with a vision. His choice of words has occasionally been politically naive, but his views are sincerely held and his arguments are internally coherent. I think this woman sounds extremely naive, immature and unintelligent on the matter. If you think finance dictates social dynamics then you are immature and naive. Putting all religions or faiths into one hat and saying that they are all like this is untrue and a bit naive. But it is both naive and dangerous to imagine that gentle persuasion can change their core activities. I cold-called my way through the phone book searching for people naive enough to allow the company's salesmen into their homes. She was a naive and impressionable young girl, with little life experience behind her. Only problem is, he is ineffectual and naive as a new member of the corruptible capitalist system. Still, while the pacifist position is inexcusably naive, at least it is internally consistent. Sometimes I miss the camaraderie of having that singular purpose and naive spark and inexhaustible energy. Ryder's familiarity with the camera contributes to his disarmingly ingenuous presence, by turns determined and naive. I was naive and conceited enough to believe that posting entries into this page would actually achieve something. So when I saw how innocent, how naive he was, I took it upon myself to be his mentor. I said, you know, I'd like to bring my friend because I was still, you know, very much an innocent and kind of naive. Their actions had been so numerous and consistent that they cannot be considered as either innocently naive or simply incompetent. Your statement on Nicaragua shows how utterly naive and just plain stupid you are. It would be naive to suggest that such views of the land represent the practice of a perfect natural form of wildlife conservation. Show More Sentences I like the Kent signing, think Valentin is okay as a platoon player, and am having hopefully not naive hopes that Perez is a player. So what interprets and what is interpreted are both in a different position from that which a naive epistemology would attribute to them. In a world where people are inundated with information from the media this seems naive. The airplanes are nearly identical and almost naive in their low-tech approach to flight, but are great fliers. It's a bit naive to imagine that getting dates right is a guarantee of correctness. For all the dangers and encounters he has been involved in, this man is still naive of the corruptness of other individuals. Specifically, I was surprised that the article's author could possibly be so naive. The freshness of effect that is produced by Moon Shadow's naive perception springs from child focalization. In 1806, what appeared to be a simple, even naive romance novel was written by a fireside at the country seat of an English landowner in Sligo. The community is usually portrayed as naive, dim-witted and almost always forgetful. The naive feel this album has at first turns quickly to calculated cutesiness. As an antiques dealer myself, but not in the jewellery field, I'm in an ideal position to blow the gaff on this rather naive theory. However, his most recent book proves him to be debilitatingly naive as well. Nicholls claims that during the recording of their debut album, he was so naive that he didn't realise bands had to go on tour. Beliefs in magic and demonic possession look mad to us now, but they were naive attempts to establish causal relations and to control the world. The arrival of this ruddy-faced giant, with his public-school accent and naive confidence, proved a turning point. Are we naive enough to think Britain alone would have had the armament to deter aggression during the Cold War? Everything was an influence, because I was green, open, always ready to explore, and naive. I wasn't so naive or dim to not notice the wanting looks some of the class gave me, I guess I used that to my advantage. However, the club have been very naive in allowing large numbers of away fans to group together. Show More Sentences His books and films earned him a following among naive romantics, and he became a guest on national television shows. Orwell's notion of language involves similar empiricist assumptions, in its naive belief that one first has a concept and then fits a word to it. He'd have to endure endless litanies about how naive and gullible he was to sign up for this trip. It's hard for guys to step into a team and he's still naive when it comes to calls and knowing our players but he's held his end up competently. But I think the thing that really dismays me, beyond even the faulty reasoning or naive grasp of political realities, is how dull it all is. It's naive to think that they'd do anything unless they have their ducks in a row. Others see him as a Don Quixote-like noble, if naive, figure who sacrificed his political career rather than abandon his aspiration. With this concern have come the unending droves of promoters, frauds, and exploiters who traditionally prey upon the naive and trusting. As a literary offense, contextomy ranges from simple and perhaps naive disingenuousness to malicious and contemptible dishonesty. Left to my own devices, I am an abstemious person, as innocent as a baby and jaw-droppingly naive. What may strike some as a naive grab for mainstream acceptance is in fact a stroke of genius. She installed her naive ceramic figures in an enclosure made from jali, a traditional decorative lattice used in Indian architecture. Perhaps this has always been the way and the public was just more naive then. Only the most naive ideology could give the same place to this forecast that it does to the political actualities of the German labour movement. And he introduces the naive first offenders and two-bit nonviolent users who have received draconian punishment. It is naive to think that the new rulers in Kabul will willingly hand power over to some rainbow coalition of their ethnic rivals. I was incredibly naive, and didn't know anything about babies so I just jumped in with both feet. Nevertheless, it highlights the dangers of naive advocacy of urban consolidation as a panacea. Nor does it simply rest on the naive distinction between feeling and rational calculation. Also, a naive reading would imagine that this knowledge on the fringe is the easiest to change. Show More Sentences Instead we should focus our concerns on the industries only too ready, willing and able to take advantage of tweenagers' naive consumerism. However she was hardly a naive character falling for the guile of worldly men. It is naive to think that non-Hindus will worry about issues which concern Hindus. Given that he has spent much of his life in reformatories and prisons, he is, we're led to believe, somewhat naive about the outside world. That naive misunderstanding summarizes the threat posed by this good-hearted, wrong-headed legislation. They do have the right Alice-in-Wonderland perspective, the naive good sense that frames the irrationalities around them. One is fresh and naive, the all-American type of character which Lynch uses in lots of his work. Looking back, I was totally naive and amateurish, but those six months stood me in good stead for what I'm doing now. He traveled the country giving talks and ambushing naive scientists in debates before huge, receptive audiences of churchgoers. Well, everything is reparable but I do think we've been on the verge of being somewhat naive about the former Soviet Union and its leadership. Raised and home-schooled in Africa by her zoologist parents, she lands in Illinois completely naive to the cliques and rules of high school. And so I was very naive and ignorant about publishing and royalties and residuals, which is kind of sweet. Hopelessly naive, Velma quickly learns to play the game, concocting ever more elaborate lies to fan the flames of her notoriety. She was in awe of the powerful old leviathan, and adjusted its controls with a naive reverence. Today's liberals have a naive overconfidence in seemingly easy, scientific answers to social problems. I think that pacifism and appeasement are the politics of the naive and foolish. Idealistically believing we could usher in an Aquarian Age of Love was perhaps naive, but was not, and is not now, irresponsible. I felt trapped within a stupid, rotten, dishonest system which brutalised people too naive to know any better, consumed our idealism. I guess I was very naive, but the violence of the attention took my breath away. I watched it with a huge grin on my face throughout, and indeed laughed out loud at the naive sweetness of it. Show More Sentences An assessment that has since been revealed as naive at best and base deception at worst. They're so naive, say the chatterers, so innocent and this, sadly, leads them to do such terrible things. For those who don't know it it's a fabulous song based on a naive melody and a haiku like lyric. He is thus the only Taiwanese naive artist to have a whole museum devoted to his works. For one thing, the ferrets weren't very predator savvy, and naive ferrets made easy prey for hawks, eagles and other grassland hunters. The main character is an elitist snob who looks down on the naive Tasmanian. She is hopelessly naive about the vulgarity of American life outside her tiny, backwoods hamlet of Sparta, North Carolina. The Romanesque church dating from the 12th C. boasts a rose martyry as well as beautiful naive paintings. I kept my side of the bargain but was I being naive to believe my responsible employer would keep his? One would have to be very naive to expect any historical Hollywood film to be accurate. Based on this rather naive childhood wish, I did a lot of research and finally got there. You always said that you were politically naive, that you were a non-political person. His chronic lack of judgement and naive approach to the complexities of the society lead inevitably to tragedy. When she does engage in critical analysis, the results are naive and limited. I'm not naive enough to think that the job of the press is to make the president look good or even to make the country look good. He has been particularly criticized for lack of military experience and naive views of warfare. I can't believe she's that naive and she's a nurse and she's an educated person. They were naive with respect to the purpose of the experiment and none of them had participated in the previous experiment. I'm not naive enough to think everyone will think this one through like the engineer geek I am. Despite her independence and academic brilliance, she is naive and unworldly and her choices are terrifying. Show More Sentences Perhaps it was the shock that kept them hoping or maybe it was a naive innocence. She was simply too innocent, too naive to understand the look he had when he looked at her. It's about being innocent and naive, much like Adam was in Paradise before the fall from grace. The collection is striking in its combination of works from both the realms of art brut and naive art. Admittedly, I did get the feeling that extended exposure to its naive style might weary me, but at first glance? When on the outside walls, they are of simple design in a more naive style. Her designs which were both naive and decorative showed great purity of line. This campaign utilises unrelated fun visuals and a faux naive style, which makes it all the smarter. Now if these aforementioned groups could only get over their either naive or implied anti-intellectualism, I'd be more willing to place my emancipatory wager on them! I guess I was really naive when I started working in this sector, but I expected less class and power politics than existed in the corporate sector. Several other biennales have been instituted on the Venice model, some of them general and others devoted to a specific category of art, such as naive painting or printmaking. To propose central planning and organisation makes you a naive dinosaur. To say he is all show and no substance is a pretty naive remark too. The middle one is a real Lothario, while the other one is very naive. There I sat as an underdressed, 31-year-old, naive imperialist in the making. This are arrogant and highly naive comments from an ill-informed wally. Theoretically, it was argued here that failure to consider the constructive role of the media in multiculturalism has resulted in somewhat simplified and naive positions. Of course, the historical Luddites were neither childish nor naive. You might think we are fools to be so naive, so innocent, so foolish. I was definitely naive, I think the main similarity between me and Hal is that we were naive. Show More Sentences Sometimes it is naive to assume that the march is onward and upward. I would have thought that over the years The New York Times might have become less naive about the arts, but it seems to have become more pretentious and downscale. They might not grab the headlines of the national news media but they will a lot harder to dismiss as anarchists or well-meaning but naive cranks. It's frankly naive to believe that simply by abolishing 15-minute slots a magic wand will have been waved, and improvements automatically achieved in our care services. She tackles weighty subjects with a naive sensibility and faux-innocence, but skillfully avoids dumbing them down. Were we naive to believe that by highlighting the good and condemning the bad, the bad would go away? If even a handful of anthropologists were naive and unwitting collaborators of colonialism, and there is not much evidence of it here, their efforts fell on stony ground. But he's clearly not naive enough not to recognise he's in a tight corner. An aware, as opposed to naive, romanticism never did anyone any harm. She is patronising and ruthless, and sometimes naive, but there are some heart-breaking domestic moments that precede and inform her ball-breaking office persona. In some episodes where a threat lurks, the colored scribbles grow dense and fraught, mutely warning against dangers that the character is too naive to see for himself. I only say this because I have been caught out being naive before, and mistaken what I thought was this amazing connection that actually eventuated into, well disaster. He invited me to approach his actual conduct at the relevant times on the footing that he was then altogether much more naive and ignorant about these matters. I'm alarmed that people over the age of 16 can act so unpleasantly towards their fellow humans, but I suppose that makes me naive and thin-skinned. Perhaps she was a naive innocent who showed instant remorse and and he was an evil seducer who accused the arresting officer of being a sexless fascist meathead. Campaigns have a right to demand discretion, but to engage in opposition research and assume no one will ever find out is naive and ill serves a campaign. We don't easily imagine anymore a naive, unsophisticated 14-year-old without the resources or experience to go it alone or see a way out of current circumstances. Mark's style is colorful and direct, with perspective that is often distorted or just simplified and figures who are rendered in a somewhat primitive or naive manner. They were naive to believe they were immune from war's violence. No difference in granuloma formation between naive and P. berghei-immunized animals and between unisexually and bisexually S. mansoni-infected mice was observed. Show More Sentences It is the most innocent and naive who find themselves entrapped. She told a funny story she covered as a young and naive court reporter. At best it is naive, but at worst it is misleading and at times erroneous. Butler thus condemns the naive admonitions of the historically privileged. It has grown a classic literary and graphic work over the last thirty years, due to the childishly naive, yet adultly irrational outlook of the writer and the illustrator. This business of spinning into outer space is just so juvenile and naive that one has to wonder why these booklets didn't burst into flames on the printing press. His style has been loosely described as expressionistic, surrealistic, naive, and primitive, but was also strongly influenced by the urban realism of John Sloan. Surely Ross is not so naive and unworldly as to not know that practically every publication on the planet has some form of selection criteria for advertising. Investing in art is ideal for naive investors since it is risk-free. They have soft hearts and tender souls, but they are not totally naive. We would be naive not to recognize the possibility of a paper jam. However, most people who are accustomed to looking at photographs have gotten over the naive demand that everything in photographs be rendered rectilinear. The naive decadence of the Nawab and his subjects which led to a great kingdom being just handed over to the Britishers has been aptly portrayed in the film. Having never heard of gender dysphoria, the state of mind which characterizes the desire for gender reassignment, I was naive about the complexity or intensity of the process. Far from being naive or credulous in the face of blind biology I say that it is our human experience of heroism and selflessness which best defines us. But my unilateral declaration of an end to the Kulturkampf was depressingly naive. We are not naive about the many threats and dangers there are today to world peace and security, nor about the urgent need to do something about them. It is naive to consider that the expert services given by doctors after their several years of training can be matched by the 24 months of training of a registered nurse. To rot this thread just a little I really think we've done children a complete disservice by assuming them to be naive, innocent little creatures. Only a very naive observer would conclude that this is currently a party with the focus and energy to win another mandate, whoever its leader may be. Show More Sentences First, management has to give up the naive notion that it can survive by simply holding on until the retiree base begins dying off later this decade. House-price control is also naive because there are so many ways round it, from free cars, holidays, insurance and moving expenses to bungs in offshore accounts. The playlets revolved around interesting situations like that of a naive, conservative and traditional mother whose teenage daughter breaks the news of her pregnancy. Only the naive would think that sexual stereotypes have ended. The traditional principles of perspective usually go by the board, though many naive artists are capable of rendering distance and depth by their own means. To the naive or numerically challenged, this might seem miraculous. I suppose I had been naive to think that he was making himself available to me so I could spar with him or plumb the depths of his thought processes. My own mother was as naive a little innocent as any who had ever lived, had nothing more than a vague idea as to what the more persistent of her pursuers wanted. They remain in this state of naive nuttiness until gaining maturity after about three years. Maybe you can call it naive but that's the way Shae simply is. I was naive enough to assume that he would, at most, rob me. If you're naive enough to believe him, you'll believe anyone. Was Williams enjoying a philistine practical joke at the expense of an intrusive antiquary and transparently naive bardolator? Cougars and manthers are always on the hunt for the energetic, supple, and naive. Within a month the Michigan mudkicker found her new master and the naive young pimp was stuck wtih a brace of howling crumb crushers. I've always liked the naive way in which he ignores all the background detail. Under naive falsificationism, the birth control pill would be considered as ineffective since there are instances in which it does not work. The fact that all members of an immunologically naive population are exposed to a new disease simultaneously increases the fatalities. In a naive population, all age groups are affected at once, leaving few or no healthy caregivers to nurse the sick. This they did, Paul says, when by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. Show More Sentences To immediately assume that anyone who participates in a sport like ours must be animalist is a naive and simplistic way of looking at things. Pandemic influenza is not seeded by antigenically 'drifted' but 'shifted' virus that finds the entire world population immunity naive. Any system that presumed otherwise would be Jewishly viewed as dangerously naive. Ever since Hume's critique of miracles, this kind of apologetical strategy has often been judged as philosophically naive. As the season fades into frosty mornings and iced over potholes, those naive juvies transform into intelligent adults. The combination of markers distinguishes naive helper and killer T cells from their memory counterparts. Abstaining labels them naive ninnyhammers, copouts avoiding political compromise. Both are positionally naive, cannot read the flight of a cross and are incapable of taking the ball even a few yards up the pitch. Princess Anne is naive to think that horses would benefit from being commodified and processed through the meat trade. Harkness assesses the effectiveness and potential of socialism and parliamentary reform, and champions philanthropy over naive salvationism. Emma, the narrator, is about 15 years old, somewhat naive, idolizing her older brother Eric. Which painter in the naive style was known as Le Douanier, having served with French Customs? Neither Chris nor I are naive enough to suppose that the money would be diverted to fund, say, a western orbital motorway for the Black Country. If I thought at all about venture capitalists, it was with a naive sense that they invest large sums of money in smart people with great ideas. Some repetitious dilemma won't go away whether we choose to be naive, moral, sophisticated, class-analytic, weepy, sobby, laughing or whatever. Detection of the spider predator, Hololena nedra by naive juvenile field crickets using indirect cues. There's a wonderful story told in a series of letters about a scheming fortune hunter and the apparently naive heiress he's targeted. A fixation on the former leads to crude, mechanistic Freudianism, the latter to egoistic and naive assertions of self-sufficiency. Sold to the American people, and to many naive senators, as a way to defend against Soviet expansionism, NATO was at its outset solely a military alliance. His study is less naive than either the title or the dust jacket suggests. Show More Sentences I have already written in the past about the amateurishly ill-advised actions of the Papagos government and the naive patriotic romanticism of the Cyprus ethnarchy. He effectively balanced his dichotomous view between the extreme of naive idealization of Americans and their culture and villanization of the United States. The naive believer may seem overtrusting in his beliefs, but the critic becomes overtrusting of his criticism, so both are naive, the latter more dangerously than the former. We have experiments of running our matching algorithm and a naive matching algorithm for such a term tree and a tree, and have compared the performance of the two algorithms. I thought he was acting a bit weird and saying kind of remote things, but I was too naive to even consider that it might be drugs, I never caught on with Jimi and the drugs. Bynum may come off a tad naive, but he does not appear to be some clueless, pampered high schooler whose world knowledge extends from baseline to baseline. Exuberant in its primitivism, High Kicks has a joyous, slightly naive spark that sometimes evokes the sort of tuneful messes to which Calvin Johnson's name is often attached. Naive art has a quality of its own that is easy to recognize but hard to define. Naive monocytes and macrophages are the primary cell types encountered by the bacterium during the invasion process. The catalogue covers major painting movements from Realism to impressionism and Naive Art. Naive methods and resolute laymanship go hand in hand, both obstructions in the pursuit of truth, blocks in the road of inquiry. Examples from Classical Literature They looked 14, but might have been as old as 16 or 17 and just heartbreakingly naive. A very naive letter from a missionary named jacquard conveyed to the abbe the tidings of his forthcoming martyrdom. Not that I should advise you to imitate this naive way out of a difficulty. It would be worse than useless to attempt to engraft our marriage customs upon these naive children of Nature. In this naive view the enterpriser is so independent of the market that he can pay much or little as he pleases. A fellow of some innocence in his naive duplicity, but none the less dangerous. Hilary especially illustrates the prevalence of naive docetic views as regards the details of the Incarnation. A naive, unctuous lout of a Devil with straightforward Tempter's proclivities. Today's Tab Totty are naive enough to believe that bluestockings can now flash their suspender belts and still be taken seriously. At this naive statement, the sheepman could not restrain a smile. All the customs, all the laws, all the details, pertaining to the student duel are quaint and naive. This, no doubt, will seem pathetically naive to most modern young men, who in this respect begin where I leave off. Her whole face was positively beaming at that instant with naive, almost childish, triumph. Or the tricksters who convince the naive to disclose their bank details by claiming they have won big money on a lottery. Some of the forms it assumes are simple and naive, like feudal rights. It would be absurd to argue that this was typical, but also colossally naive to believe it to be unique. Grimsby then scored a goal against the run of play after naive defending allowed space for two of their attackers to skate straight on goal. There was something of naive, odious, and inane simplicity about that unfrequented tiny crumb of earth named after Jean Jacques Rousseau. At the Emporium, managed by the naive Dulay family, three world-weary and hardened convicts are mending the roof. She raised her blue eyes toward the ceiling in a naive rapture. Show More Sentences Lena's candid eyes, that always looked a little sleepy under their long lashes, kept straying about the cheerful rooms with naive admiration. Reuter's eyes were raised to mine with a look at once naive, benign, and beseeching. All his loquacity was suddenly arrested and replaced by a naive and silent feeling of admiration. Tiffany Graves is a constant delight as Lois, aspiring Shakespearean with a corncrake voice, naive ingenue with a past and the perfect interpreter of Always True to You. As to his assertion that I was asking a naive question about the main parties working together to solve the problem, it was more of a rhetorical question. Thus in the course of the campaign he handled many hundreds of dollars of the Hebrew brewer's money, administering it with naive and touching fidelity. I suppose one must be a Russian to understand Russian simplicity, a terrible corroding simplicity in which mystic phrases clothe a naive and hopeless cynicism. Naive woodland motifs and '70s-era kitchen prints dress wall art and napery. Find more words! 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