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But the childlike idiom – Miłosz called it "a naif poem" – was a deliberate artistic ploy that drew on William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and scenes from an idealised childhood Lithuania. Seamus Heaney on Czeslaw Milosz's centenary 2011-04-07T12:15:26Z
I now think of what a naif I was. Meet the writer behind the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac 2012-03-31T05:43:34Z
The gallery didn't seem to mind, so it was as the naif painter "Patrick" that Byrne had his first success. John Byrne: in from the margins 2011-08-17T15:00:01Z
Scovell could behave as stupidly as the next naif, and her candor is a tonic. Review | Comedy writer Nell Scovell walked away from Letterman — and thrived 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z
There’s a Twain-like quality to this loyal naif who skewers without intending to. Review | Christopher Buckley’s ‘Make Russia Great Again’ is the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z
Marshall and his screenwriter, JF Lawton, are preoccupied by turning Vivian into a picture of innocence – not a sex worker who hits the lottery, but a naif who discovers the proper lady she always was. Pretty Woman at 30: conservatism, materialism and glowing star power 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z
By that point, the naif’s misadventures simply feel like an argument to not take sex so seriously. ‘Sharp Stick’ Review: The Babysitter’s Schlubs 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z
It’s one of many minor erasures of Baldwin’s perceptive feminine portrait that leaves only a stereotypical naif in her place. If Beale Street Could Talk: Barry Jenkins shows that more is less 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z
When Garfield’s comments made their way on to Twitter, they were widely and rightfully derided as the silly, vacuous words of a heterosexual naif. Andrew Garfield, queer-baiting and the perils of 'playing gay' 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z
Rudd’s character is a classic religious naif, lightly satirized but without condescension. Grace on Broadway: Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon in Motel Hell 2012-10-09T14:30:38Z
First among those was Taylor Swift, who opened Friday's four-hour show with a thrilling set of hits that demonstrated how dramatically she's changed since she emerged nearly a decade ago as a guileless country-pop naif. Sam Smith, Taylor Swift take charge at KIIS-FM's Jingle Ball 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z
By now, with Catch Me, Junebug and Enchanted, she had played three eye-catching naifs in a row – which didn't reflect her own view of her own abilities. Amy Adams: 'David O Russell said to me: "You are so not the princess type"' 2012-11-22T18:21:30Z
Nemirovich-Danchenko, a highly cultured man, sophisticated and worldly wise, had written several successful plays; Stanislavski was something of a naif, with poor literary judgment and little social ease. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z
By the close of the show, she had become the tender naif, turning to a visitor, perplexed. Mamie Gummer Wants to Make a Name for Herself 2012-10-05T20:45:19Z
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman 288pp, Viking, £12.99 Buy The Lessons at the Guardian bookshop The naif in this case is lonely James Stieff, at Oxford to study physics and having a miserable time. The Lessons by Naomi Alderman | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z
Three years ago, Ms. Swift was a VMAs naif who had her golden moment interrupted by a surly Mr. West. Critic's Notebook: Rihanna, Chris Brown and Drake Triumph at Video Music Awards 2012-09-07T07:25:03Z
It's such a familiar trope now it's hard to believe that it once didn't exist – the idea of the anguished naif expressing his existential dismay while surrounded by a juggernaut of technology. New band of the day ? No 974: Niva 2011-02-25T17:37:15Z
Contestants are a mix of rabble-rousers and naifs, with the anti-authoritarian types providing far more roadblocks for the captors, and therefore far more entertainment. Igniting Resistance, or Smashing It, on TV 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z
In fact, if anything, he resembles the teen naif he played in the classic Campbell Scott movie Roger Dodger – and somehow inevitably can't help looking and sounding like a young Woody Allen. Holy Rollers ? review 2011-07-07T21:21:00Z
Chief among the sprawling cast are the overbearingly pompous grocer, Herr Zangler, and his two naif assistants who seize the opportunity of their boss' day-long absence to hie off to Vienna on a romantic adventure. Few sparks in 'On the Razzle' at Theatre West 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z
Ride Along unquestionably positions Cube as the straight man, a gruff, exasperated foil to Hart’s excitable naif. Ice Cube and Kevin Hart: ‘Hollywood is realising that black people go to movies’ 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z
Such venal characters need a naif for balance: enter Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons, fresh out of law school, as Patty's assistant. Damages 2010-05-28T07:00:00Z
Yet, unlike Hillary Clinton, this president-elect turns out to be an intelligence naif, guided mainly by the grief and anger she retains from losing a son to the war on terror. Are ‘24: Legacy’ and ‘Homeland’ really worth the added anxiety right now? 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z
Hailey is that figure familiar to stories of the wicked stage, the wide-eyed naif come to find fortune and creative fulfillment in the big city. 'Mozart in the Jungle' on Amazon gets good after woeful pilot 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z
We piled into his rusty jalopy, and only as we were hurtling down the highway did I see the next day’s headline in my mind: “Three American naifs accept ride from mysterious Spaniard and vanish.” Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z
Here was the inexperienced naif, whose insecurities and lack of self-awareness are more plot catalyst than character trait. Here's Hoping the Next Looking Will Be Better 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z
When he decided to tell the government to go pound sand, he was not some naif who hadn't been in government before and didn't know the rules. The legal dominoes finally start to fall against Trump 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z
Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif. Perspective | Brendan Fraser’s comeback says less about him than it says about us 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z
Bale’s performance is particularly hard to parse: It’s no surprise that he can so completely submerge his British accent to play a streetwise naif, but the accent and characterization become distractions. Review | ‘Amsterdam’: True-ish shaggy-dog tale from 1933 (with echoes of 2022) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z
Strangely, the weakest link in “Sharp Stick” might be Sarah Jo — a naif so innocent and so unworldly that she feels less like a fully realized human than a symbol. Review | Lena Dunham’s ‘Sharp Stick’ has a point to make. But what is it? 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z
Indeed, the image Cawthorn was trying to construct of himself on the "Warrior Poet Society" podcast was as a teetotaling naif who cannot believe the deviance he's exposed to in the big city. Why Madison Cawthorn triggers Republicans 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z
Holmes’ defense strategy, then, is to paint these investors as naifs who failed to do their due diligence. Elizabeth Holmes will take your $1.2 million but not your phone calls 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z
In Wade’s telling, Holmes was a wide-eyed naif — and nothing was really her fault. Fraud, or just a failure? Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s trial opening arguments 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z
I emerged into full adulthood as a political naif. Altering our vision of voting 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z
Only a naif would invite everyone to a party and then be shocked when they show up at the door. Opinion | The border is a ‘crisis’ — and also Biden’s first big mistake 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z
And so “Coming 2 America” unimaginatively reverses the fish-out-of-water formula: Instead of the wide-eyed Zamundan naif bellowing salutary expletives on a fire escape, we get the street-smart New Yorker gobsmacked by his new palatial digs. Review: Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall are back in 'Coming 2 America.' It wasn't worth the wait. 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z
Davies and his editor bring Colin’s story full circle, reducing him to one type of “AIDS victim”: the innocent naif, doomed from his first sexual encounter. 'It's a Sin' is a transatlantic hit. But it repeats tired AIDS crisis tropes 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z
"I'm a bit of a financial naif," she said. GameStop frenzy prompts Hedges-Stocks viral surname mix-up 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z
That comment made him seem a naif to bank staff more acclimated to the organization’s technocratic approach to economic development. James D. Wolfensohn, who led World Bank through tumultuous decade, dies at 86 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z
That drew a memorable riposte from Martin Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, who slyly suggested that the former vice president, with his long Senate experience, was no naif about Netanyahu’s ability to dissemble. What a Biden win means for Israel's vehemently pro-Trump prime minister 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z
She drove around for months, like an innocent naif with a body in the trunk. Perspective | They say confession is good for the soul. I’m not so sure. 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z
His basic thesis is that he was a blameless naif, thrust into the maw of an evil sport. In a new documentary, Lance Armstrong shows plenty of rage but little regret 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z
Olaf, a childlike naif with a grown-up’s talent for self-analysis, is like a walking brief for mental health and positive thinking. Review: Disney's 'Frozen II' is far from essential, but charmingly avoids the sophomore slump 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z
“You are indeed a pudding naif. And I say that in a nice way.” Perspective | The butterscotch pudding mix has been located, but other goodies remain elusive 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z
Yes, Molly is professionally inexperienced, but her tart tongue shows she is no naif. Review: Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson make ‘Late Night’ a great night 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z
Keeping mostly to himself and poring over his dolls, this Mark emerges as a kind of sad-sack savant, an affable blend of shy naif and troubled genius. Review: Robert Zemeckis' psychodrama 'Welcome to Marwen' is muddled, misguided — and weirdly compelling 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z
Ford’s testimony revealed her as a naif in the world of politics. Emotionally wrenching testimony leaves the Senate, and the nation, bitterly divided - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z
I wasn’t a complete naif; I’d been farmed out to work on the promising congressional campaign of Mel Reynolds, a former Rhodes scholar, who lost a close race in Illinois’ 2nd District in 1990. Perspective | I helped write a speech defending a vote for Clarence Thomas. I regret it still. 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z
Cuomo’s own $25 million primary campaign is the juggernaut many Democrats expected, emphasizing his fights against Trump and the National Rifle Association and portraying Nixon as a naif seeking a job too big for her. For Andrew M. Cuomo, a difficult campaign may usher in a complicated third term 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z
In funny, faux naif canvases, she renders images of highways, farmland, pumpjacks and the broken-down family station wagon. Datebook: Shots of old Route 66, dreamlike paintings and garments fashioned from paper 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z
In funny, faux naif canvases, she renders images of highways, farmland, pumpjacks and the broken down family station wagon. Datebook: A beguiling biennial, photos of life near LAX and tributes to a mythic female ruler 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z
It would be nice if colleges were more honest with naifs like me. Perspective | Meet Barack Obama and Donald Trump, college failures. Really? 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z
Allred can be abrasive even to New Yorkers, the sketch doesn't look like an innocent young naif, and it seems Alabamans trust their own. Roy Moore Finds a Rival From Afar: Gloria Allred 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z
Or that some Russians took advantage of a political naif named Trump in an unsuccessful bid to undermine the Magnitsky law they hated? Editorials from around New York 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z
As pertains to theater, the Broadway spring season promises helicopters and gypsy cabs, woodchucks and gentlemen callers, French naifs sand New York sophisticates – a mix of serious art and candy-coated entertainments. What to see on Broadway in 2017: Bette Midler, Amélie and a chocolate factory 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z
They're both adult naifs who retain their childlike wonder for the holiday season. Naughty overwhelms nice in 'Bad Santa 2' 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z
That’s the useful fool, some naif, manipulated by Moscow, secretly held in contempt, but whose blind support is happily accepted and exploited. Former CIA chief: Trump is Russia’s useful fool 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z
The only difference is, now Ryder is playing the mom instead of the naif. Winona Ryder is great in ‘Stranger Things,’ but don’t ask if this is her big comeback 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z
Jonas has the wide-eyed naif down but doesn’t possess an iota of sexual charisma that might inspire a married woman to stray. 'Careful What You Wish For,' especially if it is a Nick Jonas erotic thriller 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z
Pope Francis, who has confessed to being “a bit cunning,” is no political naif. Pope’s Defense of Migration Is Likely a Tough Sell to European Union 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z
That is the zeitgeist, the blunt reality, that a brilliant naif like Ben Carson has tapped into, but that the standard politicians have not. Trump and 9/11 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z
Jewel is alternately totally at sea in the world of celebrity, and cannily aware of how differentiating herself as a naif might be to her benefit. Jewel's Never Broken: The Perfect Celebrity Memoir 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z
Back when the bonds were issued, U.S. stock and bond markets were booming, and naifs thought that would continue. The time bombs blowing up New Jersey’s taxpayers and its budget 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z
On some level, it’s heart-warming that these faux naif, Eighties throwback titles thrive. App Discovery Nightmare And How Reliance Entertainment Is Tackling It 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z
Such observers are writing Jokowi off as a decent man but a political naif. Taking the reins 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z
Putin is playing a masterful Brer Rabbit for European naifs: “Whatever you do, don’t throw me in that briar patch,” e.g., As Russia Intimidates Europe, Obama Fiddles On Energy Policy 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z
She’s a listless, jobless naif who was recently dumped by her fiance, leaving her paralyzed by indecision and uncertainty. ‘Two Night Stand’ movie review: Not exactly what you’d expect
A few days later, the wide-eyed naif finds himself ensconced in a lakeside cottage in Ireland, helping Frank and the group record the album that will finally put them on the musical map. ‘Frank’ movie review: An unconventional star turn by Michael Fassbender
“A lapse of memory or an explicit acknowledgment the naif reader is being manipulated?” he asked. Did Pope Francis really say 2% of Catholic clergy are pedophiles? 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z
“We know there’s a political calculation in this,” he said, “but Pope Francis, and popes in general, are not usually naifs.” Visit with pope in Rome will give Obama a chance to spotlight economic inequality 2014-01-22T01:01:04Z
If we relied on documentaries alone, we wide-eyed telly-fed naifs wouldn't stand much of a chance of ever knowing our leverage from our liquidity. Bankers – TV review 2013-05-16T06:00:28Z
But he shows how in its hour of need, the Fed, supposedly a political naif, was more than a match for its Congressional foes in the financial crisis. Off the Shelf: ‘Alchemists’ Looks at Central Bankers’ Handling of Crisis 2013-05-04T20:29:39Z
These schools have opened ridiculous "satellite campuses" around our region in order to pack yet more of these loan-bearing naifs into the tent. America and Europe: Virility symbols 2012-08-03T16:23:53Z
Where did these gentle naifs think the News of the World got its glamorous celebrity scoops from every single week? Eva Wiseman: Why are we so cynical? 2012-07-14T23:04:06Z
National controversies are something new, but she is no wide-eyed naif, either. Sandra Fluke on Her Role in the Contraception Controversy: 'I Would Do This Again' 2012-03-08T11:00:00Z
He may covet her fortune—perhaps her person too, as he would covet any other fashionable gewgaw; but he is safe from the witchery of her naif sensibility, her lovely singleness of mind. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z
And this naif in the WH has raised the stakes with our huge debt which these communist thugs own. 2010-02-06T00:28:00Z
With every artist it is even so; The artist, after all, is a Pierrot— A Pierrot of the minute, naif, clever, But Art is back of him, She lives for ever! One-Act Plays By Modern Authors
Suppose now that the plate is introduced so as to cover naif the aperture and that it retards those pulses which would otherwise arrive first. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus"
This naif, imperfect book, more lyric than scientific, but sincere and impassioned, has played a part in reminding the Bulgars of their story; it is the fountain-head of the Bulgarian Renascence. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
I was laboriously 'graceful;' and sported my 'naif sensibility' till it was any thing but naif. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z
In the midst of all this struggle was Henri Rousseau, the real and only naif of this time, and certainly among the truest of all times. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
There is, moreover, a naif and spontaneous instinct which leads man in his ecstasies of joy, and in his paroxysms of fear or pain, to lift his hands and eyes to the overhanging firmament. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
This explains why the pursuit of science, so long as it remains superficial, is not incompatible with the most naif sort of religious faith. Damn! A Book of Calumny
It was felicitously of him, rather than of Dupré or Corot, that the naif peasant inquired, "Why do you paint the tree; the tree is there, is it not?" French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
Even Barbican, who had been to Paris in his youth, yielding for a moment to the humor of the thing, acted the naif Anglais to the life. All Around the Moon
He was the real naif, because he was the real child, unaffected and unspoiled, and painting was for him but the key of heaven that he might open another door for the world's weary eye. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
The majority of the Russian soldiers are not so naif as, after having deposed the Tsar, to set to work for the King of Prussia. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917
They rectify many naif blunders and so make the whole narrative more intelligible, but they still render most of the tropes of the original literally. Damn! A Book of Calumny
Yet the old fellow was so naif and direct that his speech left no evil taste. Lady Good-for-Nothing
How naif these simple stories of Hebrew heroes! The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible
Her naif rhapsodies on the meeting are refreshing. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10
He was in an easier mood than before, he chattered less extravagantly, and asked Rowland a number of rather naif questions about the condition of the fine arts in New York and Boston. Roderick Hudson
It is probable that for her, as for many European sovereigns, the matter was decided by considerations with which the naif question of the legitimacy of a papal election had little or nothing to do. Letters of Catherine Benincasa
That is why the Greeks represented love of a certain kind as a boy, selfish, treacherous, ingratiating, blind to appearances, naif, gracefully ruthless. We Can't Have Everything
Strange enough, and I confess it with naif delight, I did not feel at all afraid. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs)
Had we been armed only with hatchets, how different the case would have been, enfant naif. Annette, the Metis Spy
To all these naif little souls, Joffre seemed like St. George crushing the dragon. Public Opinion
Now her best-beloved recluses did not stand the test in the hour of trial, and their naif egotism disappointed her unspeakably. Letters of Catherine Benincasa
There is a wholesome originality about the flavor of these products, a uniqueness which certifies to their naif purity: something as opulent and frank as the juices and odors of tropical fruits and flowers. Two Years in the French West Indies
They are singularly interesting; as naif as the smile on the faces of the Greek warriors, but no more grotesque than they. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
He looked at the dress, and admired it, and being transparently naif, he didn't see why he shouldn't say so. The British Barbarians
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
She was puzzled, too, that Paul should be so obviously pleased with the rather naif adoration. The Captives
She bowed her graceful head; with all the naif unconsciousness of a child, she had all the manner of the veille cour; together they made her enchanting. Under Two Flags
The only word which describes the Norman style is the French word naif. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Edward Pierson was naif; attributed those outbursts of demonic possession to the loss of her mother when she was such a mite; Gratian, but two years older, had never taken a mother's place. Saint's Progress
Or perhaps, to be perfectly frank, we shall thus convert ourselves into prigs, throw ourselves out of our stride, lapse into self-consciousness, lose all that is natural, naif, and instinctive within us.  How to Fail in Literature; a lecture
Of course you should really go to the theological seminary and establish this naif intuitive mysticism upon a disciplined basis. Where the Blue Begins
Being a lump of simplicity, his sceptism was as naif as his enthusiasm. The Cloister and the Hearth
Littre says that naif comes from natif, as vulgar comes from vulgus, as though native traits must be simple, and commonness must be vulgar. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
The idea was not new, and as ideas went it was hardly a mystery; but the next step was naif:—God, as a double consciousness, loves Himself, and realizes Himself in the Holy Ghost. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
You have approached the matter from an entirely naif and instinctive standpoint, and it will take some time to show you your errors. Where the Blue Begins
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