How To Use Naif In A Sentence
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What were nothing more than the words of a teenage naif at a press conference soon turned into a media-generated pseudo-duel.
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There was a time when naif alphabetters would have written it down the tracing of a purely deliquescent recidivist, possibly ambidextrous, snubnosed probably and presenting a strangely profound rainbowl in his (or her) occiput.
Finnegans Wake
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He is a naif artist who paints a magical world.
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Barack Obama embraced this consensus during the campaign, only to be called a naif and an appeaser.
Alan Fein: It's Not Good Luck, It's Consensus
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When investigators tracked down Tom's parents in California, producers had to rewrite the promotional copy for the show so it wouldn't make them look like such naifs.
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It gets tiresome to do the google work for a 'naif'.
White House Attacks Hillary Campaign
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It is also a thing of beauty, with typography that's clever without being tricksy, saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings.
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The naif became the world's most famous exponent of bohemian life and, of course, a star in Parisian gay society.
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“‘Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit,’” he asserts, “is written in faux-naïf Hemingway sentences as they might be spoken by an illiterate person.”
Raymond Carver
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If, that is, the naif didn't know this was the same Mitch McConnell who has turned filibustering into an art form.
Boston.com Top Stories
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“‘Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit,’” he asserts, “is written in faux-naïf Hemingway sentences as they might be spoken by an illiterate person.”
Raymond Carver
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The internationally renowned French painter is a master of the naif tradition and one of the most popular artists working today.
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But the sense in which the term naif should be understood in literary criticism is so imperfectly agreed upon among us, that we have not yet even found an English equivalent for the word.
Chaucer
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Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things by Ted Naifeh (Oni Press) - Twisted marchen sensibilities that captured both Nikki and myself.
Archive 2003-05-01
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For example, consider a client who has shown interest in naif prints.
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There are divisions here, genuine ideological disagreements about how to approach so many of these problems, and only a naif would dismiss that.
Beyond Left, Right And Center: It's About Reality
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In any case, now a couple weeks later I'm nothing like the commercial real estate naif I was then.
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Meanwhile, his debut album proper, last year's Rain In England, transcended familiar notions of good and bad, being one of the most peculiar rap albums ever pressed: a beatless, Beat poetry-style set where Lil B, voice a-quiver with earnestness, ponders love, beauty and all the bad things in the world over naïf new-age synth washes.
Grab your spatula! Could 'based' Lil B be the next big thing?
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She can go from naif to minx in 60 seconds and seduce us at every stage.
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For every person such as TS Eliot, who said ‘it is impossible to regard him as a naif, a wild man, a wild pet for the supercultivated’, there were countless others who thought him plain crazy.
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Alas, she seems as much a naif as an innocent.
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There is something naif and amusing in this exhibition of cheatery — this simple cringing and wheedling, and passion for twopence-halfpenny.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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But we who were shocked turn out to be naifs, people who don't understand that the business of art is, well, business.
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He's no naif, living in a fantasy world, but an adroit political player, using an image of weirdness to protect him.
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He's no naif, living in a fantasy world, but an adroit political player, using an image of weirdness to protect him.
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The faux-naif iconography of a rural idyll represents the structuring of a world so simple, artless and beguiling that no one in his or her right mind could possibly wish to dissent from it.
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I'd rather hang out with the naifs and unsophisticates, I think, who appreciate the new and unusual, and whose bar for those things hasn't gotten to be ridiculously high.
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It is also a thing of beauty, with typography that's clever without being tricksy, saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings.
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The completed Babar drawings, by contrast, are beautiful small masterpieces of the faux-naïf: the elephant faces reduced to a language of points and angles, each figure cozily encased in its black-ink outline, a friezelike arrangement of figures against a background of pure color.
The New Yorker
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In a way, the characters are stereotypes: the naïf young bride; the unscrupulous farmer; the drunken station master; the whorish mother; the repressed pseudo-father.
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(And I'm saying this as a real econ naif, so go easy on me.)
Over-worked or Over-taxed?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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And I don't know if this naif is supposed to be a journalism major - but I certainly hope not.
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But she is no naif, and there is, after all, a journalist to charm.
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SmalUare the advances which a fingle unaififted individual can make towards perfefiling any of his powers.
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
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Banyak di antara para menginginkan orang Batak, orang Melayu, KH Abdurrahman Wahid adalah tokoh nasional yang sejak awal mengedepankan politisi yang berasal dari akademisi menjadi orang Jawa, atau keturunan Chinese yang pernah mengenyam pendidikan saja pun di belakang tim pemenangan para calon pluralisme dan kemajemukan di Indonesia sehingga patut disebut sebagai Bapak berani mengajukan dirinya bahkan banyak dalam berbagai pemilihan umum baik un - terkesan "naif" dengan pernyataan-pernya - lebih cocok.
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The first century Egyptian funerary "Mummy Portraits," on wood panels, so vivid and naif, inspired styles of Christian icon paintings that lasted well into the 19th century in Russia.
Transformational Objects
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He is younger than even me, but he's hardly a naif about global events.
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Thus, in one place we have the following avowal, which is only not _naïf_ because evidently put in to please the prejudices of sympathetically narrow readers.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The naïf in this case is gorgeous Leslie, whose fiancé Logan philanders with Agnes while expecting Leslie to be faithful.
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The Liar in Chief has ties with Sachs, colludes with the CEO and he, this inept naif with no business background is telling Wall St,. and me, and you, because 54% of us are investors Obama, to shape up or they will come down on the system.
Obama asks Wall Street to back reform
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All of the schools are Christian, but other schools train leaders in Judism , Islam , Budism and other naif traditions.
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If you weren't still listening at the back there by then you would have missed some fine performances – Aneurin Barnard capturing and blending the arrogance and charm of the man in perfect proportions, Karen Gillan managing to portray a naïf Shrimpton was barely 18 when she started out in his thrall with enough energy and edge to prevent her from lapsing into ditsiness or dumbwittedness.
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As for the styles in which the popular works are executed, Castro has seen a move toward abstracts, while Delacroix, by contrast, has seen increased interest in figurative and naif works.
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Most Americans, if they thought about her at all, considered her a naif who had chosen the wrong side and paid, tragically, with her life.
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Fraser moves convincingly from his zealous naif to more steely operator convincing himself of his mission's objectives.
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Doctrina numorum veterum
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Any innocent product that becomes suddenly genocidal in the hands of a tyrant has been designed by a dangerous naif.
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Thus do an insecure, reclusive dictator and an insecure, impulsive foreign affairs naif hold the peace of the world in their hands.
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For author and reader, that predicament — the naïf thrust into murderous History — was always potentially, or actually (autobiographically), his own.
The Western Front