How To Use Naivete In A Sentence
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Even the Magdalene herself, eyes turned in horror from the abandoned grave to the radiant glory of the seraphim, had the faint touch of that naiveté in her eyes.
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We better be open about that and clearminded that one of the ingredients that produced those monsters was that perfect 'naivete' about 'eveyone can be a King' or 'everyone can run for office', or 'do not worry, be happy'.
Republicans�� Biggest Lies
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Thus, in a 419 scam, other factors, such as psychopathology or extreme naïvete, likely explain the gullible behavior.
Why We Keep Falling for Financial Scams
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His mixture of naiveté, charlatanism, and singular devotion to a unique vision make him a genuine frontier spirit, a real-life American folk hero for the '80s, and a precious natural resource.
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Therefore, a certain naiveté, unburdened by conventional wisdom, can sometimes be a positive asset.
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But naïveté, of course, was a part of love: that was one of its weaknesses.
MURDER SONG
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She couldn't bear to think of the woman laughing behind his back, exploiting his gentility, his naïveté.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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Barthelmess mostly fares okay, other than a few over-the-top speeches, but the fresh-faced Fairbanks can't shake a kind of gee-whiz naiveté, and William Janney, playing Scott's younger brother Donny, is even more overwound.
The Dawn Patrol (1930)
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This cheerfulness is the opposite of the marvellous “naivete” of the older Greeks, which we must see, in accordance with its given characteristics, as the flowering of Apollonian culture, blossoming out of a dark abyss, as the victory over suffering and the wisdom of suffering, which the Hellenic will gains through its ability to mirror beauty.’
Nietzsche the Pantheist? | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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Stories and novels written by children in all times have for the most part borne the stamp of naivete and childish immaturity.
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My naivete was shaken some years ago, much before the fear and insecurity that stalks our streets today.
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In spite of the recent lecture on good manners, the weaver could not help giving a long "whew" of astonishment, and the others were so amused by his _naiveté_ that the merriment flitted all over their faces, though for courtes y's sake thay forbore actual laughter; while
News from Nowhere
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Their relationship is given just enough depth by the complexities of his character and his mysterious past, which is a thankful foil to her sweet naivete at times.
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Naivete is so unbecoming, especially in the jaded entertainment industry.
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‘Street agents’ eager to take advantage of the naivete of young football players will oversell them on their skills and falsely raise their expectations.
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At least the teens have their youthful naivete as an excuse for auditioning.
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He recalled the directness of her speech in their first conversation and smiled at the naïveté of her estimate of himself.
A Mating in the Wilds
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The way in which Longus excites the sensual desires of the lovers by means of licentious experiments going always only to the verge of gratification, betrays an abominably hypocritical _raffinement_ [331] which reveals in the most disagreeable manner that the naïveté of this idyllist is a premeditated artifice and he himself nothing but a sophist.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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A commonplace observation on my part, a piece of naïveté perhaps, but this fact has been peculiarly neglected in so many recent commentaries about violence on the screen.
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His Toshi is a heroic character whose naivete and haunted past are shed in this exceedingly likable coming-of-age story.
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In Gay City News, Steve Erickson focuses on Lives 'forced naiveté in redeeming both Wiesler and Dreyman and its assumption that there's something groundbreaking about treating the former as a human being.
GreenCine Daily: The Lives of Others and The Decomposition of the Soul.
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Bad management, business naivete, and outright trickery resulted in years of legal tussles and lost revenue.
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In spite of the recent lecture on good manners, the weaver could not help giving a long "whew" of astonishment, and the others were so amused by his naiveté that the merriment flitted all over their faces, though for courtesy's sake they forbore actual laughter; while I looked from one to the other in a puzzled manner, and at last said:
News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription]
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Through this absolutely staggering performance, Rule finds a way to show knowing and naïveté, familiarity and foreignness in almost every move.
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And in all the naivete that pervaded the Haight was the belief, for a while, that a wondrous conversion could be worked on the bikers, that their Neanderthal instincts could be softened the whiz-bang wheels of their Harley-Davidsons tamed.
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin
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In the rest of practical life he walked by hereditary habit; half from that personal pride and unreflecting egoism which I have already called commonness, and half from that naivete which belonged to preoccupation with favorite ideas.
Middlemarch
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In my exhaustion, naivete, or hopefulness (or all three), I imagined the man in the comforter was a mentally ill relative who the man in jeans was trying to stop and help.
Farai Chideya: Obama Year One: Good for the Journalists? A Story of Fear and Hope.
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The naivete, hateful ignorance and misguided arguments of his article were appalling to say the least.
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Vidal invests his hero with an innocence and naïveté that he himself no longer possesses, though he is as young.
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And in my youthful naivete I thought, gee, they like it.
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In the other characters she was the true French girl, full of grace and a mixture of _naïveté_ and cunning, sentiment and frivolity, that is winning and _piquant_, if not satisfying.
At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe
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Of course, her love for him is unreciprocated, as he toys with her heart and then leaves her, quickly tiring of her infantilism and naïveté.
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Goodman satirizes the naïveté and narcissism of that era's utopianism with enormous wit.
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Here, the mise-en-scene becomes almost televisual (albeit high-class television), with a flat, unidimensional naivete and bloodless characters.
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Aren't those who shake their heads at our foolishness and naivete more deserving of the label?
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I often do that ... but please quote where I "denigrate" Cao's (possible) naivete of the political establishment (which I actually consider to be a personal virtue, btw) and please quote where I call into question this guy's "sanity"?
Your Right Hand Thief
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Perhaps I feared to make Alphonse jealous," she interjoined, with excessive naivete.
The Awakening
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Her loss of maidenhead as a sordid crime or the naiveté of a young woman in what she thought was love?
Earl of Durkness
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Stay, let me read my catalogue -- _Suite_, _figure_, _chagrin_, _naiveté_, and _let me die_, for the parenthesis of all.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
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I saw your smiling mask, pretending naivete, no matter what is goody - goody.
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Therefore, a certain naiveté, unburdened by conventional wisdom, can sometimes be a positive asset.
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It wasn't a big shark but Jon Stewart jumped one just now with the "everybody on Thr cable is the same" naivetéless than a minute ago via TwittelatorKeith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann: Jon Stewart Jumped The Shark At Rally
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It might seem sorta whatevs nowadays, but in an era when the whole point of American underground rock was to define oneself against the eyeliner-effete English, it took either much focus-grouping and/or mad naiveté to dream up a whole new rock identity.
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This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” — a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on
A Start in Life
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These were sights, sounds, smells and emotions which could not be accommodated in the soft, pliable naïveté of her life of just last week.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Patch Darragh has an aw-shucks quality that does fine at capturing Romeo's callowness and naïveté.
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The naiveté is ours if we pretend that Young is simply an uncouth, primitive painter, completely unaware of the history of the medium and some of its major practitioners.
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We cannot go back to the bibulous naïveté of our predecessors.
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In which case, we can also accuse him of naivete.
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The London train bombings showed up the naivete of that attitude but didn't expunge it.
A “Golden Age” of Fantasy?
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This style of prothesis without apodosis is very common in Arabic and should be preserved in translation, as it adds a naïveté to the style.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Weege's draftmanship has a kind of precise naivete - an intentional primitivism that is at once accurate and sharply distorted.
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In flashbacks he is hampered with the unhappy task of being the innocent amid these connivers, but a stronger actor might have been able to make naïveté more interesting.
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In her naiveté she had thought that all serious books were reviewed in the major newspapers, especially The New York Times.
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The songs on the album prove meditative, probing, and soothing all at once; they comfort without slipping into naivete.
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This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” — a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on
A Start in Life
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Without such a justification, is there a danger of having the work dismissed as pretension or posturing or, at worse, accused of naiveté?
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He tries to buy one on the street, but his naïvete and lack of street sense only see him get scammed by con artists.
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It was a mindless and moronic act of political naivete and crass immaturity.
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It was a mindless and moronic act of political naivete and crass immaturity.
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She has a bold naïveté, a frank girlishness, that serves the group well.
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
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In many religious gatherings, to openly and perspicaciously question a fundamental assumption would be an embarrassment met with scorn; the questioner patted on the head and told that the questions are endearing but a sign of naïveté.
Steve Hindes: Think for Yourself: Is Science "Just Another Religion"?
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A figurative pat on the head is worthless if youthful naivete is allowed to grow and flourish in a delusive psyche.
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Hallelujah for script that schizophrenically mixes upper and lower case, and for the two dot umlaut-like trema over the i, and the acute accent mark over the final e in the word naïveté, and for the proper use of the word capitol, which has but a single proper use.
A paean to the inauguration: "Hallelujah... for being smart again. And sexy again. And optimistic again."
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Of course you’ve got to go through the requisite schooling, but now at least you’ve given yourself the mental go-ahead, and whether it’s because of a deliberate decision, naïveté or both, you’re able to block all the nay-saying voices that may be telling you that youcan’t do this.
The Joys of Much Too Much
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[FN#312] The naiveté is purely Horatian, that is South European versus North European.
Arabian nights. English
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Yet they were sung with a kind of naivete and unconsciousness.
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Although _Pyetushkov_ shows us, by a certain open _naïveté_ of style, that a youthful hand is at work, it is the hand of a young master, carrying out the realism of the 'forties' -- that of Gogol, Balzac, and
A Desperate Character and Other Stories
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Maybe they're guilty of collective naivete, but I've grown fond of American optimism.
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Having spent the last two years building the space and embracing naïveté and improvisation - letting the design of the tables "go where the wood wants to go," for example - Somer has coined the term "primitive modernism" to describe the restaurant's generally rustic look.
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Effective, too, is Mare Winningham as Sheila, a mentally disabled woman whom Norman is courting with irresistible naivete.
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Though this promise reeks of fatality and adolescent naïveté, it also seems more than reasonable considering the realm these young women inhabit.
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Some claim that he was defrauded of a large sum of money because of his naiveté.
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He is captivating with his frankness, confidingness, and unexampled naivete!
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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She was a manipulative woman, but her power was very limited, and in our naiveté we saw her as a villain.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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That illusion, like the touching belief that one party is always better than the other, is compounded of near-equal parts naiveté and cynicism.
