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Were those naive villagers collecting every type of seed plant that they found, bringing it home, poisoning themselves on most of the species, and nourishing themselves from only a few species? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
In Durham the sentiment did not sound hopelessly naive. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
I felt a naive confidence that because I had a real job, I was protected. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
I realize that some naive sliver of me hoped that he was better than this. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
Looking back, I couldn’t believe how naive I was, just how many clues I missed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
“Yeah, sure. Look, I read all the emails. Every single one. I’m not stupid or naive, no matter how much everyone wants to think I am.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
He called us naive firebrands, adding that we would mellow with age. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Courtney imagines her character as naive, and also somewhat socially isolated. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
I wasn’t naive enough to think Klan violence was merely a thing of the past. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I would not be so naive as to consider his proposal to be freedom, but I knew that it was a step in that direction. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
That said, Forward believes it is naive to think that all people can survive trauma, as great as those experienced by, say, Terryl and Linton—or, in a different way, Reggie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
At first glance classic style sounds naive and philistine, suited only to a world of concrete goings-on. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
I was fourteen and had never made less than an A. I was smart, but I was as naive as they come. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
As I had suspected they would be, my discoveries were naive ones, like those of a child. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Here was an example of insane optimism coupled with the naive popular belief that a few hours of therapy can cure everything from chronic obesity to a lifetime of poverty. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
“Maybe I was naive,” he said in a halting voice freighted with emotion. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
But when Cortes’s next onslaught came, the Aztecs were no longer naive and fought street by street with the utmost tenacity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
I thought Ocean was a nice guy, but I also thought he was naive. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
You gentlemen here, forgive me, but you are just a bunch of naive dreamers. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
It was a naive and sentimental time, and men spoke in windy phrases. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’ve heard foreign visitors complain that the Congolese are greedy, naive, and inefficient. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was nice of her to give me privacy, but a little naive, given the black cameras hanging down between the beds. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
I’m a naive eighteen-year-old girl who doesn’t even belong in this bar. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
This morning I had been a naive boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
I told no one of my intentions, and I did not know how fantastically naive my ambition was. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Perhaps the naive foreigners thought that removing us from the war would lessen our hatred for the RUF. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
Miss Cowper in English, whose first words were “This fall, we will be reading Jane Eyre by Miss Charlotte Brontë, and I am not naive enough to believe that you will all like it.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
I am tempted to bring up the word friends, but I’m not that naive. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Gogol watches them, knowing that it’s all in jest— they’re not the type to do something so impulsive, so naive, to blunder, as his own parents had done. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
As I said it, I knew it was a naive hope. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
Compared with the rest of them, I get off easy: “naive surrealism with a twist of feminist lemon.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
He described Oppie as arrogant, naive, and suspiciously hostile to a thermonuclear program that was manifestly in the nation’s best interests. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Maybe it was naive, even reckless, to expect it, but I had a premonition that today’s shift could be the best yet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
And I was so naive I just kept wandering around, not knowing I was headed for trouble, which I found soon enough. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sparrow says: “I’m not going to be so naive and say no one in the group ever texts and drives, but Reggie definitely changed attitudes.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Rowan nodded, but thought, for a man of such wisdom, that seemed very naive. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
What a loss, that her naive kindness is gone. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
“Yeah, a little too cute and a little too naive,” Darius says. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
I was naive and young and before you know it I fell in love with him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
At first I was naive, and assumed that brothers and sisters were natural allies, instant companions. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
When I was much more naive, I thought that the simplicity of the scythe commandments made them impervious to scrutiny. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
I thought about the dozens of black people I'd met who had complained bitterly about Walter's prosecution, and I was starting to see Chapman as either naive or willfully indifferent—or worse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
I felt sick, filled with a consciousness of the woman’s helplessness, of her naive hope. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was completely confused about why it had all happened, but he wasn’t naive enough for one moment to start cooking up any clever plans for escaping. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
He added, “Sure!” maybe just in case I was naive enough to believe the Sonnets were something I’d have to consult daily, like some kind of guide for living or dating. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Bibi had never been taught to be a woman; the illness had left her naive in most practical matters. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
“It sounds as if the Martians were quite naive.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had a grave, boyish dignity, that clean-eyed, scrubbed- brain, naive look of the happy professor. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was naive about the reality I was trying to explain to him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
Then Enoch said, “I simply have no words. Wait—no—I do! Horace, that is the most stunningly naive and cowardly bit of wishful thinking that I’ve ever heard.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
Their most dramatic — and naive — promise was that liberation would be achieved by the end of 1963, and they urged Africans to ready themselves for that historic hour. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
As a student teacher last year, I was pretty naive. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
On the question of funding the domestic debt, for example, Hamilton regarded Madison’s proposal to distinguish between original and present holders of government securities as naive and mischievous. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Also, that kind of naive kindness is akin to standing on a busy freeway and gazing at the beauty of the sun. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
They weren’t a group of naive schoolgirls—they were a regiment of well-trained aviators, and some of them had already flown in combat under enemy fire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
Tia Alicia considered the American films naive and overly optimistic but too much fun to resist. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
“WL” was Farmer’s abbreviation for “white liberal,” a group that donated quite generously to Partners in Health but which he now seemed to be claiming was naive. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
They liked being the sophisticated city kids who could explain how things worked to the naive country boy. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
Maybe I was just being naive, but I figured we were going to be okay, me, my mom, my dad—although I had my doubts about Erie. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
Whenever I said that in his defense, people shook their heads, as if to say “Poor naive Caitlin.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
I thought back on how naive I’d been just hours before, thinking jail wasn’t so bad and I could handle it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
And then I explain to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remained silent. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
It would be naive to suppose that people abuse information only when they are acting as experts or as agents of commerce. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
I looked back on that young man who had left Mqhekezweni as a naive and parochial fellow who had seen very little of the world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
He hung his head, feeling tongue-tied and naive. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
These constructs may mock our self-importance, but approaching the world in any other way seems painfully naive. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z
When I awakened the next morning and recalled Bess’s naive hopes, I was glad that I had the can of pork and beans. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You are naive. Such a thing is impossible.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
This sweet, funny, sometimes annoying, sometimes brilliant, naive child of mine...This child who is now an adult and about to launch, like a rocket blazing in beauty through the night sky to worlds unknown. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
And his crimes had been meager things, the actions of a naive boy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
We would rather run the risk of confusing them while at least appearing to be sophisticated than take a chance at belaboring the obvious while striking them as naive or condescending. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
For better or worse, I’d fallen in love with a man with a vision who was optimistic without being naive, undaunted by conflict, and intrigued by how complicated the world was. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
In many ways she remained naive and immature, still a kid, but Cleveland Heights now seemed very far away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Many of the naive black families bought their insurance from us because they felt that they were connecting themselves with something that would make their children “write ’n speak lak dat pretty boy from Jackson.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Young, yes, and politically naive, but even so the American war in Vietnam seemed to me wrong. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
I mean she was naive and unassuming, a grown-up and a child at the same time, plus she was a touch crazy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You—Aunty, do you know the stuff in that thing makes Dr. Goebbels look like a naive little country boy?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
Any serious politician will realize that under present day conditions in the country, to seek for cheap martyrdom by handing myself to the police is naive and criminal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Anything I say will make me sound naive. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
She told Dad once that she sounded young and naive, but I loved the way her paragraphs sounded—the way the botany-speak blended with her excitement and became a secret language with magic words. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
“I don't want you to be naive. What kind of a mother would I be if I didn't try to teach my daughter about the world?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
Some vague thought was trying to worm its way into my dense, naive, childlike mind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was the perfect soda for a spicy food, and apparently, for tricking naive city boys like Genie and Ernie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
Let us not be naive: men do what they must, even when they feel that they are being driven by God, even when they feel they are fulfilling the will of God. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
It seemed as if somehow my questions, naive and unpremeditated though they were, had, nonetheless, provided him with some long-awaited opportunity to vent his pent-up frustrations and bitterness. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some naive part of me hoped the deserter would at least make it out of the city. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
I was probably naive to think he didn’t deserve to be in prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
Even being in the presence of pot shined a light on how pathetically naive and innocent I was. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Again I would read and wonder as only the naive and unlettered can read and wonder, feeling that I carried a secret, criminal burden about with me each day. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It was naive on my part. Still to this day, I’m surprised by how addictive and how alluring the technology is.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
“You want fair? How come a kid as streetwise as you seem to be is so naive when it comes to real life?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z
He gave me his adoring smile, the one that said, “I love it when you’re so naive.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
He offered his famous ransom in the naive belief that, once paid off, the Spaniards would release him and depart. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Someone had finally been naive enough to trust me, and I'd rewarded her with death. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
Corinthians was naive, but she was not a complete fool. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
He wasn’t naive about the ways of the world. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
Last night I had found a naive girl. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
And she is naive—she trusts Captain Ratcliffe to keep her safe and fed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z
The city seemed coldhearted to her—merchants were ruthless in their dealings and masters callous to their servants, and all called her naive when she objected. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
They can take care of themselves in a wilderness, but they are naive and helpless against men, and perhaps that is why they went out in the first place. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
An affable Victorian gentleman, Franklin was said to be a good-natured bumbler, dogged and clueless, with the naive ideals of a child and a disdain for acquiring backcountry skills. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Naive as the statement was, he didn’t think Cal was naive. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
“She allows her character to believe the lie. Her voice has so many tones to it. She can be seductive and naive all in one sentence.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Still others projected their hurts and longings into more naive and mundane forms—blues, jazz, swing—and, without intellectual guidance, tried to build up a compensatory nourishment for themselves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
“Well, I’d rather be naive than whatever it is you are. You only see things that are right in front of your face.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
Before divorce, when I was young and naive. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
It’s a difficult balance, to sound the right amount of naive. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
I know I’m being naive, but I want to hold on to some hope for the woman—for all of us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel’s old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
Helen was the second-eldest of my sisters, all of whom were gentle, naive, talkative, and curious, which is why Mommy kept them off the street and away from men at all times. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
But I just felt stupid and naive after those guys took off. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
“God, you’re naive. I guess this explains how that League woman was able to trick you into thinking you were something less than a monster.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
Blore studied with naive surprise a statuette in brass—wondering perhaps if its bizarre angularities were really supposed to be the female figure. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z
They were reckless, puerile, congenial, naive, presumptuous, deferential and rambunctious. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
Call me naive, but I seem to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
His hopes of succeeding accelerated when one day Perry produced a pastel drawing he had made—a large, in no way technically naive portrait of Jesus. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
I know it may sound naive, but I thought then, as a twelve-year-old girl, what I think now: Regardless of the color of our skin, we’re all the same. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
That strikes me as naive, for someone who once lived in my city and saw, at least on the screens, how many secrets we kept from one another. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
“He drew people in a very naive manner.” The Edward Gorey House on Cape Cod is the good kind of ghastly 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z
Given that embedded bigotry, Scott’s modest crusade for social enlightenment may be naive, but it couldn’t be more relevant. Review | Stephen King’s Halloween book is shockingly . . . heartwarming? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z
This sort of naive perspective, either intentional or otherwise, is becoming increasingly prevalent in , says Soth. The genius behind Alec Soth's Brighton biennial success 2010-09-19T21:00:00Z
“It’s naive to think that pro-climate forces will be in power across the world at the same time.” China, India become climate leaders as West falters 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z
This review is a very naive reading of Eastwood's directorial efforts... isn't it possible by portraying a world where 'evil is a given' and... ‘American Sniper,’ a Clint Eastwood Film Starring Bradley Cooper 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z
These cityscapes and still lifes appear almost naive, yet are precisely painted. Review | In the galleries: This art will really speak to you 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z
Conrad had a very naive idea that colonisation was bringing modernity, Christianity and commerce to this barbarous people. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z
The kids here are smarter or less smart; more mature or naive; more honest or deceitful, or self-deceiving; wilder or more cautious. TV Picks: 'East Los High,' Paralympics, 'Welcome to Sweden' 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z
But it would be naive to pretend that Belushi’s premature death doesn’t play a part in his enduring reputation. The tragic legacy of John Belushi: ‘He could have done anything' 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z
It’s naive, however, to ignore the collective effect of comments about looks. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What do you say to the little girl who asks, ‘Don’t I look pretty’? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z
In “Palindromes” — perhaps Solondz’s most perverse and inscrutable work — the naive runaway protagonist is played by numerous different actors, varying in age, race, gender and size. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z
It was "naive", he said, to label the writer misogynistic because he was writing a novel that had misogynistic characters. Booker prize sees Peter Carey and Emma Donoghue head shortlist 2010-09-07T19:22:00Z
To think that I was naive enough to think that two years would do something. Anita Hill: ‘I think our journey, as a country, as a society, really tracks my own journey’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z
We journalists are surprisingly naive when it comes to houses. Simon Hoggart's week: biffed by backpacks borne by zombie hordes 2013-06-21T17:59:09Z
Anything that seems naive in one way or another — and I think you can be cynically naive or naive about cynicism — it’s gonna be a problem. Think more about sex! 2012-12-22T23:00:00Z
Valerie was naive and mild-mannered, more comfortable around adults than those her own age, and I enjoyed mocking her innocence. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z
“I’m a little naive sometimes, but not as much as Vera. I guess I’m really a cynic,” she said. Beth Howland, actress who played Vera on sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies at 74 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z
In an upper Midwest maximum-security prison a naive female guard and Iraq War vet named Kali Williams lets herself feel sympathetic to the newbie she’s ordered to escort secretly to his father’s funeral. Newly Released Books 2010-12-16T06:34:36Z
Never, that's the weird thing - I was very naive and I had no ideas about trying to write a hit record - I was just pleased to be a songwriter. The stories of the Christmas hits 2010-12-26T00:55:51Z
Serafina was actually quite cute: she was so naive and unworldly. Angel Dust by Sarah Mussi - review 2013-04-02T08:00:00Z
But Jared’s unforced drollery and naive aperçus resemble nothing so much as late-period Vonnegut. Review | Simon Stephenson’s hilarious ‘Set My Heart to Five’ follows a robot with Hollywood aspirations 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z
When Micah Hendler first went to Jerusalem with the idea of starting a choir of Israeli and Palestinian high-schoolers, some thought his notion naive at best. In conflict zone, raising young Palestinian and Jewish voices 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z
Could Bergman really have been so naive as to think that was true? Bergman: why are the great director's women all tragi-sexual goddesses? 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z
Today Frelinghuysen says he feels not only betrayed, and guilty about losing his aunt's work, but also painfully naive. The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions 2010-10-23T16:16:00Z
The film zooms in on Elena's transformation from a stay-at-home mom swathed in a cocoon of naive innocence into a hard-nosed entrepreneur - often suspicious of and sharp with her employees. 'Hard Labor' serves up Brazil sans bikinis 2011-05-13T17:36:12Z
The job description sounds like an experiment that psychology researchers administer to naive students. The Woman in the Fifth: L'amour and la mort in Paris 2012-06-14T17:45:32Z
French culture minister, André Malraux listed the building in 1969 as the “only example of naive architecture in the world’. 10 of Europe’s oddest attractions and events 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z
The recipient of nine 2011 Tony Awards, with one for best new musical, "The Book of Mormon" irreverently lampoons naive but good-hearted young Mormon missionaries sent to a war-torn, AIDS-afflicted African country. Paramount's new Broadway season: 'The Book of Mormon,' 'Fela!' 2012-03-12T20:12:06Z
And there he might have stayed, had he not noticed the new fashion for "naive" painting being promoted by the Portal Gallery in London. John Byrne: in from the margins 2011-08-17T15:00:01Z
I was very naive, but I thought the next time this many seaworthy ships will be released for sale, it will be 500 years – and I decided that was reason enough. The boat that became a nightclub 2012-06-21T19:30:03Z
Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics — starting with “A robot may not injure a human being” — feel more naive with each passing wave of layoffs. Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z
He is compassionate, but also unstudied, slightly naive, contrarian, contradictory and compulsive. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z
I’m not naive enough to believe that a movie with this subject matter and this setting will be a big hit or a major player in the Oscar race. “The Homesman”: Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank are unforgettable in a ruthless, classic western 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z
I’m not so naive as to expect Washington to change for the better. TV Weekend: Veep 2012-04-20T15:31:24Z
Sometimes being a little naive can be an advantage. A transgender Army bride in the ’80s 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z
The first two books in this series centered on Marcus Yallow, a naive teenager, then a wiser young man, of above-average intelligence, focused on social activism against a burgeoning police state. Review | Cory Doctorow’s ‘Attack Surface’ is a riveting techno-thriller 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z
The letters he writes to someone he meets on aperfectmatch.com, who goes by TVGirl, reveal him as naive in matters of romance, in particular. 'Everybody Says Hello': Kun's likable letter-writer is back 2012-04-25T20:19:06Z
I was so eager and so naive I dated a long stretch of horrible people. Protect the sacred lives of women: To be pro-life, you must change your life 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z
At 70, he knows it would be naive to still have rock star dreams. This is pioneering rocker Cidny Bullens’s ninth album. But his first as a man. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z
That naive, innocent voice that could not have known, at the time, what was coming? My Thanksgiving panic 2012-11-22T00:30:00Z
She and Ganz fully inhabited each song, which ran the gamut from naive folk poetry to miniature romantic tragedy. A night of Chopin by a pianist with impressive finesse 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z
Allen can be, at best, naive and, at worst, obtuse. 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z
That which is not human is potentially a threat, this mentality says -- and even if you think an animal is peaceful or domesticated or otherwise not dangerous, you're naive. Why we're fascinated by animal attacks 2010-08-18T11:01:00Z
As the narrative hurtles toward a shocking and cinematic climax, Tiller’s funny and naive observations keep the reader rooting for this wonderfully magnetic lost soul and his enigmatic mentor. Review | Chang-rae Lee’s ‘My Year Abroad,’ is a sweeping, twisty tale of love, family and hope 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z
“And that might sound kind of naive, but I came from a family of really strong women.” In the midst of restaurants’ Me Too reckoning, female chefs grapple with what comes next 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z
Dylan's nostalgic romanticization of a lost age, they might contend, is naive and misinformed. "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z
It is, but artfully rendered through the viewpoint of an adolescent dancer who performs with great maturity while remaining fatefully naive. Review: ‘Girl Through Glass’ leaps to the peak of the dance world 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z
Now she's in charge of the house's internal workings; it's fun to see her try not to be aghast at the Holland's naive and often penny-pinching staffing decisions, given all her hard-won experience.  Class-system melodrama as comfort food 2011-04-08T15:31:00Z
My mother was just as naive as I was and she let me go with my best friend and his 19-year-old sister. Readers share memories from 1968 Sky River Festival in Sultan 2011-08-10T17:48:01Z
Gioni says that’s a “giant part of the world” and it would be “naive” to portray it as a unified image. NYC museum features works by Arab artists 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z
It may sound like naive 22-year-old word salad to some of you, I'm sure. As a recent college graduate, I should be terrified – here's why I'm not 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z
“While he is an apostle of hope he’s not a naive apostle of hope,” Axelrod says. Obama at 60: Feet on the dance floor, eyes on the future 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z
In the Times interview, Mr. Shigeta described his character as “naive, almost stupid.” James Shigeta, an actor mindful of his Asian American roles, dies at 85
"We were really naive and really young first time around," she confesses. 2010-01-20T08:09:00Z
Our enemies make no distinction between mercenaries and naive, irresponsible people who disagree. Underground Cuban rappers live on the edge 2010-05-16T23:27:00Z
But Capra was not naive about the emotionalism of his films, and indeed sought to explore and question their appeal to the sentiments. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z
His naive dreams of escape soon evaporate: there is no going back. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z
New Eric is sincere and naive to the point that it's ridiculous to think that even as a human he acted like such a dopey-eyed idiot. "True Blood" recap 4x6: Into the woods 2011-08-01T06:01:00Z
Maybe I operate from a naive standpoint, but I feel that art is universal and without boundary and is probably the most connective language amongst people. 'Art Brief: Iranian Contemporary Los Angeles': Bridging communities, one pop-up at a time 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z
Though it might be hard to imagine Lohan playing innocent in 2014, her wide-eyed interactions with the bitter Hollywood execs brought to mind shades of Cady Heron, her naive Mean Girls character. Lindsay Lohan Doesn't Make or Break the London Production of Speed-The-Plow 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z
MacPhee, in response, said he was pleased he wasn’t “the most naive person on the panel tonight.” Would bringing back extinct animals turn out as badly as it did in ‘Jurassic Park’? 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z
I think that the New Critical approach taken by British critic Christopher Ricks — breaking down each Dylan song according to conventional matrices such as rhyming and alliteration and assonance — is a bit reductionist and naive. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z
It’s one thing for a naive American to lose it over a few spoons of socarrat, but I wasn’t the only one at the table having a rice revelation. How paella got punked – and the Valencian chefs trying to save it 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z
I'm scared that if I focus on his dreams and potential, he'll be too naive to survive a police encounter. Raising a Black son in a white world 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z
His naive style provides an arresting contrast to the grimness of war. How did American artists respond to the horror of WWI? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z
And I keep doing naive pigment paintings of antelopes all over the walls. TV review: Arctic with Bruce Parry 2011-01-10T08:00:02Z
He liked human beings most when they are unguarded, naive and possessed by a simple faith in life. Why Vittorio de Sica is one of Europe’s greatest tragic film-makers 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z
On the other side of that coin, doing what you love with the expectation that financial success will miraculously follow is naive and ridiculous. Career Advice You Should Never Follow 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z
And like some other writers before her, Kidd has transformed the story to make Jesus the naive tool of more violent reformers. Review | In Sue Monk Kidd’s ‘The Book of Longings,’ Jesus has a wife — and behold, she’s so woke! 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z
"I was naive and I didn't realize the impact … about, like, making one comment here and this comment there," she said. Katherine Heigl is in a good 'State' as she returns to TV 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z
I am mad at myself for being so naive and exposing my daughter to their cruelty during a time of hardship. Perspective | Miss Manners: Calling a grown sibling ‘mean’ won’t help the situation 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z
There’s a reason that opera is such a frequent subject of parody: It’s over-the-top, it’s naive, it’s big, and when it fails, it fails spectacularly. The art of bad singing: A legacy lives on 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z
Shishkin says he was influenced by Chekhov's sense of humanity and learned from Tolstoy "not to be afraid of being naive". The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z
And yet they were naive to think that one could deal with Stalin. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z
Laura, a naive middle-class Englishwoman, arrives in Gost with her two children to renovate a pretty house on the town's outskirts. The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna – review 2013-04-21T08:00:02Z
I am concerned that the notion that tourism will improve Haiti is naive. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z
The Constand I watched while covering both trials came across as naive and often befuddled — hardly a master extortionist. Review | In ‘The Moment,’ Andrea Constand, Bill Cosby’s courtroom accuser, tells a story larger than her own 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z
There are certain tropes: Vilde is the naive, socially awkward striver, for example, but mostly the show’s characters are realistically flawed young people dealing with growing up. Skam: the hit Norwegian teen show headed for a US remake 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z
Others question whether the celebrities who do videos with Keenan are really just using a naive teenager, one who has a disability no less. Webcam wonder: It's Keenan's world, for now 2011-04-18T08:31:04Z
One moment, she’s just a naive teenager fooling herself to keep alive a vision of her mother, but the next moment, whiffs of ectoplasm drift through these pages, and you’re not sure what to believe. ‘Mr. Splitfoot’ review: A gothic tale in the woods of New York 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z
No one would be so naive as to say that sitting down at a table over a nice meal is the answer to some of the country’s most pervasive social justice problems. Discomfort food: Using dinners to talk about race, violence and America 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z
The joy of Waters is rooted in his seeming faith, naive but strangely inspiring, that sex jokes might create a better world. Review | John Waters wants to wrap you in his filthy embrace 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z
For, inevitably, the naive and restless Alberic decides to go out and see these fabulous places. Perspective | Remembering Norton Juster and other lost literary friends 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z
We can’t eliminate all conflict, and the rejection of naive liberalism will not resolve itself automatically into a political movement. Language policing and Twitter wars: why modern feminism is failing us (again) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z
Parry was seemingly oblivious to the impending threat of war, and the optimism of 1912 now strikes us as naive. BBC Philharmonic/Sinaisky 2010-07-25T20:45:00Z
He’s not the first person in the book to exploit O’Connor, who seems good-hearted and naive to a fault; he’s not even the first person in that chapter. Review | Sinéad O’Connor was a star, then a pariah. She says she wouldn’t change a thing. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z
She describes herself as “an artist in the naive tradition,” but the word naive can be misleading. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z
There were people who stereotyped me, who considered me this naive leftist who would never send his own children into the army, who didn't know what life was made of. David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z
We’re meant to believe that Tommy, naive but also alert and inquisitive, never really doubts that a native farmhand he respects murdered his parents. Review | Two Australian boys seek revenge for their parents’ murder in this blood-soaked tale 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z
I like naive charm as much as anyone: when O'Doherty distributes handmade "dream helmet" headsets through which we watch her show's denouement, it's very winning. Monsters of the Deep 3D 2010-08-19T15:55:00Z
Years later, he would acknowledge that his view of the city was “naive,” but “it is an eye of delight.” Rare Steinbeck story, set in Paris, published this week 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z
The old trope is that the young begin as naive leftists then drift rightwards with age. Michael Moore: 'We have the power to crush Trump' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z
Perhaps it was naive, but we didn’t expect to meet with resistance. If not my surname or my husband’s, could we call our child after a New Zealand volcano? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z
Maybe I’m naive, but I don’t particularly think it’s about prejudice, I think it’s about comfort — people just aren’t used to it. Rhythm of change: Marin Alsop leads the Baltimore Symphony into the future 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z
Predictive policing, on the other hand, might replace such intuitive knowledge with a naive belief in the comprehensive power of statistics. How Facebook could get you arrested 2013-03-09T19:20:01Z
You know it's just a drama, and there are bored catering people hovering just out of shot – even in the dank, misty woods where the naive spy is about to be hanged. Spooks final series: time for a glorious death? 2011-08-11T13:29:34Z
In a nutshell, this conversation suggests the arc of many first world war movies: naive young men eager to serve their countries and embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Before 1917: revisiting the greatest first world war movies 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z
"I never came from the place that those people came from, so to come in and go, 'I'm just going to try and make this stuff' was probably a bit naive." Blake's progress 2011-01-22T00:05:04Z
I watched a ton of footage of her obviously, and to me she was someone who was a quiz nerd, who was very naive and innocent. True or false? AMC's "Quiz" goes inside the game show coughing scandal that tests confirmation bias 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z
She was, in his estimation, forever the naive convent girl and the sophisticated artist— qualities that made her an ideal interpreter of Broadway song. Elaine Stritch: All the best lines at this memorial were hers 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z
"It is perhaps naive to expect black men to be better — oppression is always demeaning and rarely ennobling," Coates writes. How the media at large failed Gayle King 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z
All the while the children are naive to the dangers around them, including the creepy guy hanging around nearby and the fast-moving traffic on the highway just beyond their temporary home. Hollywood doesn’t make many movies about poverty. ‘The Florida Project’ bucks the trend. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z
That gut feeling tells me that it’s naive to treat electronic media as if they have no effect, and useless to take the absolutist stance that they’re the digital equivalent of cigarettes. I Let My Babies Watch TV. And I Regret Nothing! 2011-10-19T13:53:45Z
“I think I see I’m still naive now, but I was so naive then,” she says, although she still sees parts of herself in older songs. Beabadoobee wants to show you she’s more than a viral TikTok song 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z
The pensive dad meets Dory, a naive but optimistic Regal Tang fish with short-term memory loss, early on in his search and she helps him to find his offspring despite her apparent shortcomings. Ellen DeGeneres in talks to play Dory in Finding Nemo sequel 2012-08-23T14:48:01Z
No thoughtful person is naive enough to think it’s OK for a white woman to parade around in a big black afro wig, then slip it off when the mood has shifted. For white chicks in afro wigs 2012-10-19T23:30:00Z
The idea that an undefended border means a free for all is a naive concept, borders are defended and watched, even by Canadians. Two Cities, Two Countries, Common Ground 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z
No, I don't think it's naive from an ethical perspective at all. "It was damning": Brian Stelter excavates Fox News' culture, the Big Lie and Tucker Carlson's exit 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z
Wide-eyed and slightly open-mouthed, she played the little princess as naive child, acting 12 rather than 16. ABT's 'Sleeping Beauty' at Segerstrom a lush return to tradition 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z
Nevertheless, the emotions ring true, and the characters’ generic quality suits their stage of life as they shed their naive asumptions. Why love didn't work, from each party in 'The Last Five Years' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z
It's naive, crude – setting the war in Afghanistan against multicultural London, a racist dad against a Muslim boyfriend. Foyle's War; Our Girl – TV review 2013-03-25T07:00:00Z
And along comes Emma, young and luscious and naive — or so we think. Review | A fresh recording of Katharine Graham’s memoir is among the best new audiobooks 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z
Tom, the naive son of a cold and controlling father, has spent his entire life on their remote estate, which relies on fish farming and tourism. Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura – review 2013-02-06T08:00:01Z
Gall, too naive to understand the double meaning of the lyrics, sang the song happily, "with an innocence of which I am proud", she said later. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-10-07T21:40:00Z
The naive lawyer is so ashamed by the theft that he tells colleagues that the perpetrators must have been men disguised as caterers at his charity event. Review: ‘The Last Painting of Sara de Vos,’ a riveting tale of art theft 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z
But are we naive in thinking that we won’t damage ourselves emotionally by taking this approach? I’ve fallen in love with another woman – but we both have husbands 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z
Prosecutors tried to dismiss the notion that Constand, who often appeared confused and naive on the witness stand, could have extorted Cosby — a celebrity with a small army of lawyers and agents to protect him. Bill Cosby convicted on three counts of sexual assault 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z
The chicken chain is not naive about the political landscape. Can restaurants take a stand during inauguration without alienating Trump voters? 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z
"They're just naive to the atrocities of the Trump administration, but they're not going to change their mind," an aunt explained. Living with the legacy of my Trump-voting Vietnamese relatives 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z
Once they are discovered by his wisecracking new stepson Leo, the naive cyborgs begin to integrate with society. James Bond and the Leprechauns: the weird world of Disney+ 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z
His parents, he says, are naive about money and got into debt. What is it like to live with parents very different from you? 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z
There is nothing naive about Bouie, whose work explores how signs and symbols function, especially among people who are forced, by oppression, to communicate in code. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z
She played the beautiful but naive Elly May Clampett, in the show about a family that struck oil and ditched their backwoods home for life in California. Beverly Hillbilly actress settles lawsuit over doll 2011-12-29T18:19:19Z
Not the color of naive optimism, you see, but of hazard warnings, atomic blasts and our new president. Have liberals found their combative new leader in … Keith Olbermann? 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z
It was absurd how naive I had been. David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' ? interview 2011-08-19T21:58:02Z
Ziegler carefully maps her intersections of gender and race; Amber and Tom both say naive things on that score. Review | ‘Actually’ anatomizes a he-said/she-said case of campus sexual assault 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z
“Yes, of course! I was 25 and I was naive – not because of that, but because I was naive to the whole process of making one of those big-budget films.” Andrew Garfield: ‘I never compromised who I was’ 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z
A woman smiles at a naive man “the way a fox smiled at a tender rabbit.” Dean Koontz’s ‘Ashley Bell’: A colorful tale that veers toward the otherworldly 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z
Call me naive, but I didn’t anticipate this. Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z
You'd have to be, at best, naive to tackle these songs if you didn't know how good you were. The persistence of Rumer 2011-03-17T21:29:00Z
"These people are not naive – some of them are union organisers and are seeking to use the artist's intervention and the resulting fame and money in a good, productive way," bree67 said. Readers' reviews 2011-03-03T23:30:01Z
"I was naive and unaware of who I was booked to perform for," . The stars whose gigs courted controversy 2013-07-01T11:12:52Z
Just two years ago, Brad Paisley was criticized for recording a song called “Accidental Racist,” with rapper LL Cool J, that sought to explore racial tensions but came across as naive and ill-advised. Country Music Acts Quietly Abandon Confederate Flag 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z
Both far outweigh the impact of a doltish idealist, purposefully written to seem not just naive but programmed with radical propaganda. Woody Allen's 'Crisis in Six Scenes' Reveals a Crisis for Streaming Services 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z
Look, he says, he's not naive, he knows there will be those who want to use him and those who want to do him down. Ducking and weaving 2010-07-30T23:09:00Z
The wedding photos reveal a very young couple, handsome, shy, naive. I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman? 2012-11-11T02:15:00Z
Pinkie courts and marries naive local girl Rose in order to prevent her from testifying against him in court. Clip joint: vinyl 2013-05-02T11:15:19Z
They frequently choose words like "innocent," "pure" and "naive" – although babysitters and students with younger siblings are more likely to acknowledge that children can also be "mischievous" and "strange." Book bans reflect outdated beliefs about how children read 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z
One must be careful of naive cynicism: stranger-than-fiction things happen all the time. Catfish 2010-12-16T15:00:01Z
At other moments, though, he adopts the role of the dumb ingenue, affecting innocent incomprehension with faux naive, Stiller-ish mannerisms. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z
Yes, Naz seems very naive, but he is very sheltered and in shock. ‘The Night Of’ Series Premiere: Fate at the Wheel 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z
Perhaps naive optimism persuaded Yusuf these flimsy assertions would pass muster. Imran Yusuf ? review 2011-08-15T14:14:29Z
Does Cummings’s belief that he could work with Trump make him unbelievably naive or a man of unshakable faith? Elijah Cummings endured two painful years. Soon he’ll be more powerful than ever. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z
To think that you can work in an industry and somehow change it, that's a naive view of how capitalism works. Can sex films empower women? 2011-03-05T09:00:01Z
“Are we naive today to believe that the gods of the present will survive and be here in a hundred years?” Collective consciousness to replace God: author Dan Brown 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z
And so wrapping your nephew in pink and sending him off to fight ... his? our? gender battle is an uneasy mix of empowering, naive and cruel. Boy’s tastes cross gender barrier, so build up his inner strength 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z
I'm just anxious we don't replace it with a naive acceptance of anything exotically foreign. X is for xenophobia 2012-05-22T12:27:52Z
If Llosa had written this as a "sentimental" novelist not a "naive" one, how much less enjoyable it might have turned out to be. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z
Instead, it shows events through Isabel’s naive and pious eyes, a point made right away in the first few minutes via a subway poster selling eyeshadow, i.e., The price of Hollywood whitewashing: How this complex drama about a Latina woman became just another Keanu Reeves cop movie 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z
With the naive viewpoint of early college students, this Mexico City quintet portrait everyday existential nuances with an optimism only an iPod advertisement would reach. May's best music from across the MAP 2012-05-18T15:52:05Z
But it’s not coming from a totally innocent, naive mind. Charli XCX on 'Sucker': 'I haven't made an album to get on pop radio' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z
She fell out sixteen because it seemed old enough to have the wherewithal to do the things she wants to do, but young enough to be naive enough to do them. Writing a novel about Jews set in 1942—without Hitler: “Once you mention Hitler’s name, his mustache is in the room. The stakes change” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z
Mr Chapman’s World Cup anecdotes reveal a quaint, even naive, event. The time of their lives 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z
“It appears that the hobbying demographic of Kennebunkport are rather naive to have actually signed in using their real Christian names,” he writes. Johns on Zumba prostitution ring 2012-10-17T00:00:00Z
For the "naive" writer, a deadline is no big deal, and probably no hardship, possibly even a useful spur to composition. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z
You can make a case for “Rigoletto” in Mafia-era New York, but it’s hard to pretend that this kind of cease-fire, so innocent and naive, could have happened in Vietnam or Iraq. Perspective | Did you want to commemorate Armistice Day? Classical music thinks you should. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z
Among the pieces he consigned to Sotheby’s was a picture of a naive young gentleman being swindled at cards. Review | ‘Caravaggio’s ‘Cardsharps’ on Trial’ raises questions of artistic authenticity amid riveting courtroom drama 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z
The other editors warned me, saying their boss took perverse pleasure from smashing the hopes of naive reporters. From ministry to muckraking: The biblical basis for investigative reporting 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z
It posits that humankind’s tendency to buy the vision of might equals right, to assume most powerful, god-like beings would err on the side of being benevolent aides and protectors, is dangerous and naive. Amazon's "The Boys": In this rowdy exploration of superhero backlash, anger is also a superpower 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z
"We were all so naive about the music business," Beggins says. The Wild Child story: 2 musicians walk into a van ... 2014-03-06T15:31:56Z
As much naive child as grumpy old man, he possesses no editing mechanism between his thoughts and his words; he's deaf to social cues, enraging nearly everyone around him without really meaning to. Larry David: 'I'm cranky' 2010-06-25T23:02:00Z
As the naive, troubled wife, Finney radiates both vulnerability and resolve. This dramatic ‘Equation’ doesn’t quite add up 2014-01-30T21:01:10Z
The "poor naive little me" depicted in Rambling Man is now writing way beyond her years. Laura Marling: I Speak Because I Can | CD review 2010-03-18T23:30:00Z
The result is a little naive and overly talky. At Washington National Opera, 20-minute operas are on the right track
"With a magnetic screen presence and amazing technique, her ability to totally immerse herself into a character makes her naive, love-struck waitress in Brighton Rock a touching and tragic victim," the jury said. Riseborough to gain Berlin honour 2010-12-15T15:35:07Z
As it happens, to view Keillor as a dim, benevolent sweetie-pie – a manatee ripe for harpooning – is to be naive in any case: it is to mistake him for his persona. Garrison Keillor v August Kleinzahler 2011-04-10T21:29:05Z
And those things always have a naive charm to them. Actress Amy Sedaris on Crafts and Her New Book 'Simple Times' 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z
"No," she says, "I guess at this point I'm just blissfully naive." 'So I'm a transsexual and this is what's happening' 2012-07-22T19:30:00Z
"I used to wave a flag when I was at school," they snarl, "but these days I ain't so naive." Readers recommend songs about royalty: the results 2010-12-16T22:59:01Z
Shia LaBeouf plays Jack Bondurant, the ambitious but naive youngest sibling, who wants to transform the family business Early on in , Jack decides that his family needs to move on to bigger things. Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke: the actors playing the Bondurant brothers in Lawless 2012-08-25T23:05:45Z
Yes, she was naive about keeping her document circulating quietly as a warning mechanism. Perspective | She created a document to warn women of sexual harassers. It’s haunted her ever since. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z
Plans were botched or poorly executed or frantically changed at the last minute, promises were made and then broken, naive idealism was mixed with unbelievable arrogance. “Last Days in Vietnam”: Is the humiliation of 1975 about to be repeated? 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z
Pera’s bumbling nature might make him seem naive, but he is adamant about the importance of rigorous writing. 'The shipping forecast, with jokes': Joe Pera's brilliantly boring comedy 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z
A sad, naive hipster who doesn’t understand the value of money. Blind date: ‘She thinks I’m a sad, naive hipster’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z
And Aaron C. Finley sings fervently, but he's stuck playing an absurdly naive, soon vindictive trainee agent, who whines, "I wanted to save the world — before I knew the world was real!" Asylum-seekers' tales in 'Take Me America' 2011-09-28T21:18:04Z
The art is meant to look “naive,” or simple, or homespun, rather than polished, finished, contrived or rhetorical. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z
A comedy called Revolution Society, by Sarah Power, will parody the naive ideals and aimless rebelliousness of a group of students. The fringe turns angry as shows plan to deliver a political punch 2013-07-20T11:30:29Z
It may be naive of me, but I think that Bishop is every bit the genial, self-deprecating, ordinary bloke that he appears. Comedy gold: John Bishop's The Sunshine Tour 2012-11-29T13:45:44Z
I was writing a book set in the near future, after an act of biological terrorism, and I was electing to write in the voice of a naive and idealistic 16-year-old. Novelists need publishers 2011-08-26T21:55:07Z
After speaking to Roger, I find myself questioning my naive, unmarried assumptions about what constitutes a “failed marriage”. Love in the age of living for ever: could your marriage last 80 years? 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z
He wasn’t naive, he knew that there were persistent pockets. “Maybe it is not that you couldn’t. It is that you wouldn’t”: Michael Eric Dyson reflects on Obama’s complicated legacy on race 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z
“Without sounding like some young, naive person — because we weren’t young, nor naive — I knew from that point he was the one.” On Love: Glenn Hennessey & Steve Kogut 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z
"She is wonderful as the barmaid married to a Polish airman," says Libby Purves on a page you can't read, "naive, cheerful, yet radiating immense doubt and pain in stillness." What to say about ... Flare Path with Sienna Miller 2011-03-15T15:50:48Z
Only a politically naive imbecile would go now. Was George Osborne wrong to go off skiing? 2011-01-09T00:06:07Z
No, my silence was because I felt colossally naive. ‘I felt colossally naive’: the backlash against the birth control app 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z
Does the naive persona in “Welcome to New York,” her ode to her new adopted city, fit her correctly? Listening to Taylor Swift's ‘1989' 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z
Perhaps this sounds naive to you, but I would rather find a way on my own. The lasting trauma of rape 2013-02-18T01:00:00Z
“I look back and I remember how it felt. I think: Oh, I was so young and naive back then — which is quite funny,” says Thunberg, recalling her first days of protest in an interview. Greta Thunberg on 2 very surreal years of protest and fame 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z
Step back and see this naive and benign spirit in the adorable form of a beagle puppy that means no harm but needs your acceptance, affection, guidance and understanding to be a good canine companion. Animal Doctor: ‘Maniac’ puppy keeps going and going and going 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z
And we shouted that religion at a time when that kind of earnest noise was tagged as earnest, naive and square. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the full transcript 2012-10-11T09:18:54Z
Call me naive, but I had no idea – I really didn’t – that that was what was going to happen with that film and to my life. Kate Winslet: 'It's sad more young women don't compliment each other' 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z
Not to be naive here, but I seriously do not get it. Fox News’ “high five” idiocy: Why they’re so confused about teenage boys 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z
But when the special finally aired last night, it became clear that this hope was naive. “Eaten Alive” spectacularly fails from every angle 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z
A 1928 watercolor, “Small Mexican Horseman,” is diligent but naive, yet the colors are appealing. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z
You know, in some ways Stanley was naive and we were both young and full of enthusiasm. The 'adventure' of working with Kubrick 2013-08-16T00:31:17Z
With so many feisty young female roles under her belt, Moretz said it was a challenge to play someone as introverted, timid and naive as Carrie. 'Carrie' returns, with more blood, revenge and a feisty makeover 2013-10-19T01:05:26Z
New York has always been a place where money speaks and to think that the rest of the city wasn't built under the same ideology as Hudson Yards is naive at best. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z
Is there a way to be trusting without being naive? Review | The 10 books to read in September 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z
"He puts on this naive look and tells very dramatic, very complex things, very simply," said Ricardo Vaca, president of Barlovento Comunicaciones a media consulting firm that produces audience share numbers for Spanish television. A hit TV show rises from the ashes of Spain's crisis 2013-04-11T11:39:34Z
It started making me think about that stuff, how being hopeful is not necessarily being naive. Sarah Silverman's not kidding ... maybe 2011-03-24T16:26:00Z
I guess I’m really naive about how much anti-Semitism there is. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z
She knows with all her heart that the acting lessons she’s taking from some old hack will make her a movie star, though that dream feels so naive to us it almost hurts to read. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z
After all, in the same essay, Sontag also noted, ”One must distinguish between naive and deliberate Camp. ‘American Horror Story’ Recap: Lady Gaga Checks In 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z
A more naive young fool never drew breath. I thought I could reason with Antonin Scalia: A more naive young fool never drew breath 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z
I was confident and naive enough to think that love could only bring good things into my life and that I was deserving of it. Will I ever share my bed with a partner again? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z
And although we journalists try to portray ourselves as cynical sometimes, or hard-bitten, we can also be idealistic, even naive. The media didn’t want to believe Trump could win. So they looked the other way. 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z
From there, Diane, a product of Hollywood, imagines the story in cinematic fashion: She sees herself as the naive wannabe starlet Betty, who succeeds on sheer talent and solves whatever problems are thrown her way. 10 year time capsule: The puzzle movie hits made possible by DVD 2011-03-22T16:37:00Z
Maybe I'm totally naive, but that's why I've spent the past few years being skint, perfecting my craft, gigging in small venues. Molly on her Eurovision 'challenge' 2014-03-04T11:51:22Z
I might have been a bit naive; I thought "tool" meant their voice was a great tool. One last thing? Nicole Scherzinger 2010-12-04T00:06:00Z
It follows the strange relationship that develops between a naive young woman and a mysterious elderly man after a hit-and-run car accident. Alan Ayckbourn, premieres pop up in ACT's 2013 season 2012-09-19T22:15:04Z
But he was not going to be so naive as to leave the cells in the NIH’s possession while these matters were decided. Germ warfare: the battle for the key to modern vaccines 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z
The expression is at best naive – a single article almost never changes the mood music, especially amid a blizzard of what might now be called “fake news”. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z
That is, if you were being purposely naive about what Scott is doing—inoculating himself from any MeToo blowback based on his prior views of Allen’s films. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z
Most of that entertainment value is at the expense of our four naive suburban teen heroes, who embark on a post-sixth form Mediterranean jaunt with impossibly high hopes. The Inbetweeners Movie ? review 2011-08-17T21:10:00Z
The series revolving around the naive but resourceful squirrel Rocky and the sweet but clueless moose Bullwinkle had premiered two years earlier on ABC as "Rocky and His Friends." Classic Hollywood: Honoring Jay Ward of Bullwinkle and Rocky fame 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z
I'm still just naive in a lot of ways. "Spirit Run" author Noé Álvarez ran from Canada to Guatemala on "the longest prayer in the world" 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z
Youth-friendly indie in which a naive, pregnant Mormon girl falls in with Las Vegas skater punks. This week's new films 2012-07-13T23:10:55Z
“Some of them are very young, very naive, very pure in their hearts. They just throw themselves in,” said Yip Siu Fai, director of the Centre of Suicide Research and Prevention at Hong Kong University. 'Society is suffering': Hong Kong protests spark mental health crisis 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z
McArthur's touching belief in the "irony" of the BFI surviving the Film Council is probably just as naive as my belief a decade ago that the Film Council was a good idea. Letters: Our commitment to the arts is rock solid 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z
I was much younger and I was really too naive to think about the family environment as well. Chris Columbus: My dad said, 'Don't do a job you hate' 2013-04-26T22:00:01Z
All of this leads Pamuk into some interesting re-evaluations of Flaubert, Proust, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Dickens as he explores the oscillations between "naive" and "sentimental" and the search for an equilibrium between these two poles. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z
Winslet says the real-life Joanna Hoffman told her “unrepeatable” stories that revealed Jobs as almost charmingly naive, but Hoffman also admitted there were times she wanted to “stab him in the chest”. Michael Fassbender on playing Steve Jobs: 'Was he flawed? Yeah! We all are' 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z
On the other side, the anti-HUAC Committee for the First Amendment comprised naive yet well-intentioned fellow travelers who would quickly disband when subpoenas turned into jail sentences. Review | When Hollywood caved to the House Un-American Activities Committee 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z
Even at the start of the opera, Manon is not naive, she already knows her power and is using it to get what she wants. Anna Netrebko: 'I can make Manon ... bad' 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z
After the breakup I realized how naive I was to promise this, and the reality began to settle in with just how twisted the relationship was. Perspective | Ask Amy: This gentleman prefers women’s wear 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z
Three years ago, when her mother sent her an article from Spain mentioning the unfulfilled promise about the Galvez portrait, her reaction was both practical and naive. A picture of persistence in honoring a Spanish hero of the Revolutionary War
This may sound naive, because of course any intervention runs the risk of making a bad situation worse. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How a college student can help siblings left in a dysfunctional home 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z
"Considering the world in which she grew up, Dakota has a very sweet, naive sensibility, but she has this inner strength and power which exudes on screen," Taylor-Johnson said of her leading lady. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' director Sam Taylor-Johnson finds R-rated sweet spot 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z
Driven by class status, she manipulates people to get what she wants, and her obsessive pursuit of the naive Ann Walker verges on predatory. Review | HBO’s grand ‘Gentleman Jack’ gives a 19th-century lesbian landowner the respect she deserved 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z
Many believe this in their heart of hearts – that the world is a cruel place and to believe otherwise is naive. Happiness ? and how to find it 2011-04-02T23:13:57Z
And naive, in a sort of superficial way. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z
Gilbert is a politically naive musicologist collecting folk songs in the Balkans. My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes 2012-07-24T09:23:46Z
The suggestion that science needs nothing from philosophy is both intellectually arrogant and critically naive. Editorial 2012-06-04T20:30:01Z
Any comments on my naive thought that never marrying would ensure I would never divorce? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You haven’t become your parents. You’re still the kid they traumatized. 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z
Were the American cyclists killed in Tajikistan naive for traveling there? Allegation in Hunters’ indictment raises issue of how Expedia charges appear on bank statements 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z
But to her, he still seemed sheltered, naive. He wants to become a cop. ‘Are you sure?’ his friends and family ask. 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z
He's not a naive guy, he knew the orchestra he was dealing with and he knew the audience. Steve Reich on Schoenberg, Coltrane and Radiohead 2013-03-01T07:00:12Z
"I think being sort of naive to the city and the dynamics there was a help," Nathan says. 12 O'Clock Boys: the documentary for those suffering The Wire withdrawal 2013-06-18T10:30:13Z
I was worried, but I was also a naive teenager and thought he was going to be OK. 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z
And parents, amazingly, are sometimes naive and wrong about their own attitudes and their own capacity to love. Andrew Solomon: “The conditions I’ve written about have been brutally stigmatized” 2012-11-24T22:00:00Z
Bonhoeffer argues that it is naive and misleading, perhaps even dangerous to suppose that the literal truth always or even typically conveys what we mean when we talk about telling the truth. What the Original “Pinocchio” Really Says About Lying 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z
One editorial, in the San Francisco Chronicle, called Vasco’s task force “naive and absurd”. 'It was quasi-religious': the great self-esteem con 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z
The students were naive and pushed too hard. ArtsBeat Blog: Revisiting Deng Xiaoping: A Word With Ezra F. Vogel 2011-10-21T10:00:12Z
The “Dangerous Angels” series chronicles the adventures of a charmingly naive teenage girl in 1980s Los Angeles vividly re-imagined by Block. Francesca Lia Block says Weetzie Bat is not a manic pixie dream girl: “I don’t love what I’ve seen of that” 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z
But “Born Yesterday” wasn’t chosen just for its charm and laffs, though it’s still funny as naive Billie hits the books and spouts malapropisms about literacy and government. Review | The moralizing 1946 comedy ‘Born Yesterday’ is not dead yet 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z
‘REM are well placed to catch this post-yuppie mood: they espouse Green and specific issue politics. They are idealistic and forward-looking to a degree that might seem naive.’ From the archive: REM release Green, 1989 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z
And, like Evans, she was accused of exploiting people too naive and destitute to understand the implications of what they'd agreed to. Irina Popova's photographs: voyeuristic and exploitative, or objective social comment? 2012-06-15T15:30:00Z
Maybe I'm naive, but that 's pretty shocking. "Inside Job": Global finance as a criminal conspiracy 2010-10-08T00:30:00Z
CIA agent Brown cautions him against being naive. Bourne again: "Green Zone" a remarkable movie 2010-03-05T06:26:00Z
He was not naive: He knew institutions could be cold, and his commitment was not slavish.  Kevin Starr will never be replaced: William Deverell remembers the historian and author 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z
For one hilarious programme in 2007, as a naive yet knowing Tanzanian, he recorded a nettle-eating competition in the west country. Adam Lusekelo obituary 2011-04-12T17:17:07Z
His naive Leo also has a ginger charm that’s a nice high contrast with Max’s classic bluster. Hitler musical caper rides again in ‘The Producers’ at Olney 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z
When we started earning rent from this racket, we felt a lot of internal pressure to stay true to our adolescent dissatisfactions: not adolescent like immature or naive, adolescent like terminally disenfranchised and pure. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z
A handsome sex therapist fleeing international criminal charges moves to an Irish village and draws a naive woman into his horrific past. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z
I understand that I’m naive, and arguably poorly informed. Motherlode Blog: When Marijuana Looks Like Candy, Not Drugs 2014-02-11T15:54:48Z
Do the immense energy, vision and warmth of this film make up for what you might call its intentionally naive and nostalgic mood, or its absence of anything like a conventional plot? “Beasts of the Southern Wild”: A spectacular bayou folk tale 2012-06-29T14:00:00Z
You would think he is a master of it, being the man behind Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, both full of hopeful, beautiful, naive romance. Richard Linklater on the enduring appeal of Jesse and Celine 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z
Perhaps my demand for authenticity is silly or naive. Why can't Hollywood get Jews right? 2010-05-27T19:45:00Z
The Wall Street tell-all is dull, the critics say: Smith only quit Goldman Sachs out of anger over pay and promotion; he is greedy; he is naive. Wall Street should hate itself 2012-11-13T22:02:00Z
He then toys with the affections of a naive young woman as sentimental and innocent as he once was. ‘The Same Old Story’ is anything but 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z
He also keeps telling everyone who'll listen that his word is his bond, which on "Survivor" either marks a player as laughably naive or totally dishonest. "Survivor" redeems itself 2011-03-17T13:18:00Z
Then once I got into it, I was like, "Oh, I was more naive than I realized." W. Kamau Bell on going up against Bill Cosby in Showtime series: "It is scary" 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z
I might have been naive at 18, but if so I am still naive now. 'Hope has started to grow': Maxine Peake on Corbyn, people power and Peterloo’s radical legacy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z
He suggested that it was naive to think there is anything wrong with it, and that it is possible to “do two things at once.” Joe Scarborough defends schmoozing with Trump as ‘the Washington way’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z
“It’s naive to think the pandemic hasn’t played right into China’s hands,” said Christine Brennan, a USA Today sports columnist for whom the Beijing Games will be her 20th Olympics. ‘China will be China’: Why journalists are taking burner phones to the Beijing Olympics 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z
This spin is part of a “mirage on the Mekong”, Mr Strangio writes, a jab at the naive “miracle on the Mekong” phrase that was bandied about during the elections in 1998. Miracle or mirage? 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z
"You can tell the whole world that I was that naive," she said. Artist launches Reparations website and 'social experiment' on white privilege 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z
When she was naive, she was abused, her unborn baby killed by her drunken brute of a husband. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Women's suffrage arrives 2010-11-22T06:01:00Z
But at least I’m also not pushing pharmaceutical sales on unsuspecting and naive customers.” A smart-ass guide to navigating awkward questions over Thanksgiving dinner 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z
Before the millions of record sales, hundreds of awards and international acclaim, Whitney Houston was simply "Nippy from Newark", a naive young girl, ill prepared for fame. Whitney Houston was never ready for fame, says new documentary 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z
It’s a naive device, but it’s fun to think of each panel as a kooky doorway to some other reality — just like the Internet. Ludovica Gioscia at Baert Gallery: A collision of past, present and future 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z
Pop isn’t naive about the Stooges’ tribulations, but his memories in “Gimme Danger” come with a sense of wonder. The brief and wild ride of the Stooges gets ‘fan film’ treatment in ‘Gimme Danger’ 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z
“And he’s got that naive, beautiful openness to everyone and everything. It’s something that is within all of us buried somewhere. That hasn’t gone away. It just got encrusted a little bit.” On new album, Chick Corea plays with a piano and his fans 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z
Joan Stanley is a young, naive physicist who is part of Britain’s race to build a nuclear bomb. Crime fiction: Richard Jury’s return; an unsuspected spy 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z
Several songs are about getting in over your head with sex or substances, then casting those experiences in a naive, first-timer light. Katy Perry comes to KeyArena, demonstrates the power of blending in 2011-07-14T14:01:06Z
Not that the company is naive about what it’s signed up for. Can Google save gay rights? 2012-07-11T00:00:00Z
A "simian stroll", I can only imagine, means to walk like a monkey/ape, which conjures up northern malcontents trading snouts on pokey back streets full of naive hope. This week's new singles 2011-08-05T23:08:27Z
Perhaps it's naive to assume that talent is converted into on-set currency. Judy Davis: 'I never wanted celebrity' 2013-04-25T16:53:00Z
Carousel Musical Theatre West stages the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic about a carnival barker who romances a naive young woman. L.A. theater openings, March 19-26: 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z
Hally is far less aware; Fugard does not spare himself in this naive portrait. Review | Athol Fugard’s apartheid chronicle ‘Master Harold’ still glows 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z
“Right after ‘Joy Luck Club’ came out, I was naive enough to think, ‘Oh, maybe they will make more films with Chinese American characters.’ Why ‘The Joy Luck Club’ is the most interesting — and frustrating — addition to the National Film Registry this year 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z
They spent a perfect Sunday together, but that night Baltzley said he needed to get high, and, being naive about cocaine's effects, she didn't protest. A chef's painful road to rehab 2011-06-06T22:43:00Z
How could people be naive enough to join Heaven's Gate? New "Heaven's Gate" series looks to Christianity to explain the method to the cult's madness 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z
At some points in time to be completely sincere is to be naive or foolish, and you have a rise of irony on the other side of it. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z
My mother was considered a wonderful woman: gentle, vulnerable, put upon, innocent, naive, abandoned by her beastly husband. My mother abused me as a child. Can I report her now? 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z
In general, when Theroux goes on one of his adventures one is forced to admire his daft, naive courage. TV review: Marchlands, Louis Theroux: Ultra Zionists 2011-02-04T10:09:57Z
Like Tony Blair's New Labour, they wore their suits well, they exuded naive positivity and they stood no chance of realising the expectations vested in them. How Menswear typified Cool Britannia and Britain's creation myth 2012-11-23T12:50:55Z
Steinfeld — a striking, smiling, willowy teen who exudes a kind of naive chic — fully resides inside the skin of a 19th century character very different from her. True Grit Review: Trading the Dude for the Duke 
 2010-12-22T19:25:00Z
It's that earnestness, coupled with a truly chameleon-like gift to climb into the skin of a character, that make her plea to keep sealed the magician's cloth seem more naive than pretentious. Rooney Mara: 'I've been guarded since I was three years old' 2013-03-02T06:00:00Z
It can fall in love without being naive. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z
And we were earnest and naive and square. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the full transcript 2012-10-11T09:18:54Z
He is embarrassed to be chanting, embarrassed at looking, perhaps, politically naive. Speech and Violence Collide in ‘The Topeka School’ 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z
And I’m not naive about this; there’s always a balance. International Rescue Committee CEO: ‘The way refugees are seen is a running commentary on our own values’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z
“The future isn’t a fact. It’s a dream. We will help you understand and think and experience the future that you want to live. It’s hopeful without being naive.” The Smithsonian is turning 175. It’s celebrating with robots, flying cars and hope. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z
This often gets autistic people labeled as naive and gullible and leaves us vulnerable to manipulation and mate crime – when a supposed friend deliberately takes advantage of you or makes you feel bad. My neurodivergent reading of "The Little Mermaid": Ariel is autistic, and Eric has ADHD 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z
“I’m not naive,” Min says with a laugh. Janice Min, Hollywood's star editor: 'The news cycle here is fantastic' 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z
William is three dimensional but not exactly realistic; besides the daredevilry and naive silliness, he has a wild imagination, and a magnificent line in sulky rhetoric. From the archive, 13 January 1969: The Peter Pan world of William 2011-01-13T11:26:35Z
That year, 2002, he appeared in an indie film called Roger Dodger, in which he impressed as a naive, virginal youth who was tutored in the ways of picking up women by an older lothario. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z
But Kreis' ebullience and delight onstage as the young, naive Lewis are genuine. On Broadway: Village co-stars catch 'Million Dollar' ride to Broadway 2010-06-10T00:00:00Z
Although Smith never plays Aimee’s naive endeavor for laughs, the resulting project is a classic case of misguided altruism engorged on vanity. ‘Swing Time’: Zadie Smith’s sweeping novel about friendship, race and class 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z
"I suppose I'm just naive, but I've always chosen to believe that academy members vote solely on the basis of merit," says film historian Leonard Maltin. 'Lockergate'?: Producer apologizes for e-mails 2010-02-27T17:28:00Z
“I wasn’t completely naive about it, but I didn’t actually appreciate how harsh it would be, particularly from a pretty small bunch of people who have incredible influence at WHO,” he says. The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z
When Morgan let the Wolves live, both the first time in the woods and again after they attacked, I thought he was being naive, that he didn’t know how the world worked. The Walking Dead: season six, episode four – Here’s Not Here 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z
A young naive Canadian, the racial dimensions of Prince were mostly lost on me, though I’d read Hilton Als’ take, among others, later. Prince and the queer body: Our dirty patron saint of pop gave me permission to think outside the gender binary 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z
It would be naive to say that we made this as a one-off. Man of Steel: a new era for Superman? 2013-06-15T02:58:02Z
The sweet young hero, Ivan, is utterly naive, but with his outsider’s innocence he wins the friendship of a magic pony. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Little Humpbacked Horse’ is rowdy fun at Kennedy Center 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z
Others felt that the artist was naive to think a noose could function as art in today’s context. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z
This sounds like the freaky opening of a thriller — a naive young woman caught in the deceptions of a man she thought she knew! — but Oyler veers off in another direction. Review | Two authors expose the deceptive, self-aggrandizing absurdity of online life 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z
But call me naive in this day and age, especially in New York, I guess. With Choice of New Director, the Met Gets a Scholar and a Showman 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z
Working from a motor home parked on a Rhode Island beach, the scammers use their computer-hacking and cold-calling skills to prey upon naive locals. ‘Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?’ review: An antic story of scams and gangsters 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z
Although he’s literal and serious, he’s no rube, nor is he a naive standard of moral innocence like Mark Twain’s Huck Finn. If you liked ‘Wicked,’ you’ll be enchanted by ‘Hiddensee’ 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z
Sondheim, “West Side Story’s” lyricist, was having some fun with Anita’s naive rapture over the material upgrade America represents. Who is an American? Look to the current crop of musicals to tell you. 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z
Yet my pitches always ended with the same optimistic, naive take on the Serious Eats business. The early Serious Eats struggle days: Hemorrhaging money, "we were a soufflé ready to fall" 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z
And if that perspective sounds naive, well, just you wait and see how quickly Mama can bring grace and enlightenment to the most reluctant of charm-school inductees. Is following Emily Post the path to a better world? 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z
That’s a charmingly naive reaction because we understand that these characters are neither goodly nor beauteous, as she supposes. Margaret Atwood rewrites Shakespeare. Who will do it next — Gillian Flynn? Yes. 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z
Monteith, 29, plays naive high school football star Finn Hudson in the television musical comedy. "Glee" star Cory Monteith was teen drug addict 2011-06-23T19:33:22Z
But the idea behind it was maybe a bit naive: like if you give everybody a house, it automatically means everybody's going to cut their grass. Untangling catch shares with Lee van der Voo 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z
Ellis becomes key to fulfilling Mud’s fantasy of vanishing with Juniper, a mission that resonates with his own naive pride in recently winning his first girlfriend. ‘Mud’: Roiling in a river of obsession 2013-04-25T00:52:12Z
Ashton, a native Texan who is shrewd but naive at times, loses days of his life drinking vodka on a Russian train snaking through the Siberian wilderness. Russia has its own TV show like ‘The Americans’ — but it’s a comedy set during Trump’s presidency 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z
Maybe we’ll be asking instead: Are these young politicians too naive and inexperienced to be president? Can we talk about the senior citizens running for president and how they try to look younger? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z
His description – "I blink at this new world, which of course is the same world as yesterday, only somehow mislaid by me overnight" – is a good example of Garland's slightly naive, yet determinedly precise style. The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland – review 2013-04-06T09:01:01Z
Plausibly, the survival advantage of vision gave rise to our reflexive bias for believing that the world is as we perceive it to be, an error that psychologists and philosophers call naive realism. Pop neuroscience is bunk! 2013-06-08T15:30:00Z
"I was naive and unaware of who I was booked to perform for," Carey explained. Mariah Carey 'embarrassed' over Gaddafi concert 2011-03-04T10:18:05Z
"Maybe I'm naive, but instead of undermining, if people supported each other, there would be peace." The iPalpiti festival: 20 years of peace through music 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z
At the start of Campbell's play Wet House - the term used for hostels where alcoholics are allowed to drink - naive new boy Andy is greeted for his first shift by his jaded colleague Mike. Addicts' hostel inspires debut play 2013-09-19T11:33:10Z
“My dad always said I was really naive and that I wasn’t living in the real world,” Stasey says. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z
A dark show about a ballet company and a beautiful and naive yet emotionally disturbed ballerina? Starz’ New Ballet Drama Flesh and Bone Sounds Exactly Like Black Swan 2014-01-28T22:34:16Z
Intrepid, if not naive, a few nights later I witnessed a cross-burning and a display of Confederate flags in support of white supremacy and nationalism. Civilities: Why can you fly the rainbow flag but I can’t fly the Confederate flag? 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z
The sheer preposterousness of the idea of a woman's giving birth to a sprig of myrtle is typical of the naive tale. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z
But you quickly got drawn into this beautifully naive world Chris had created, where Frank's blind ambition for fame contrasted markedly with his mundane daily duties – "shopping for me mum" and so on. I can't believe Frank's gone 2010-06-22T08:45:00Z
Generally, it was the same two characters — his much smaller brother as a domineering boss to a very naive and innocent character played by Burrell. Ty Burrell: 2 family friendly films from ‘Modern Family’ star 2014-03-20T17:04:08Z
Archer is an immortal with a proclivity for inebriation and Archer is "highly-trained, well-intentioned, brainwashed, naive teenager who is on a mission ordained by God," said Henry. Secretive, methodical, the so-called 'One Percent' 2012-06-28T06:47:09Z
When I was young and naive I shared some information with the man who became my first husband, and he seldom failed to mention it when we were arguing. Carolyn Hax: Readers’ turn to offer wisdom while the columnist’s away 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z
"I was much younger and I was really too naive to think about the family environment as well," Columbus told "The Guardian" in 2013. 25 fun facts about "Home Alone" 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z
The tenderness with which a woman embraces Mary as they stand in a bare room made it irresistible, the slightly naive execution further adding to its appeal. 2010-01-30T05:37:00Z
He also received acclaim for Breaking the Waves, an unsettling film about a naive young woman - played by Britain's Emily Watson - whose devotion to her husband has shocking consequences. The man Cannes banned 2011-05-19T15:26:10Z
A riotous portrait of a naive rocker with a penchant for foolishness, “Sick on You” is packed with louche behavior, provocative musicianship and outrageous ­social gaffes. ‘Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of the Hollywood Brats’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z
When McNall intrudes as a hopeful, naive suitor of her daughter, Mrs. Page gives him quite a surprise. Review: 2 J.M. Barrie comedies smart, breezy 2013-05-07T21:01:15Z
Everything changes and moves so quickly and we realise that and we're not naive enough to think this will last for forever. 'Album saved us' 2010-04-05T06:19:00Z
Critics at the time found them naive, even decorative. Perspective | Helen Frankenthaler came from wealth and privilege. Her art transcends that. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z
All naive young women are very scared by that song. ‘Reckless Daughter’: A Protective Biography of Joni Mitchell 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z
Few people are naive enough to believe that Hollywood studios create movies solely for their artistic value, but the best films are able to balance their financial imperatives with a genuine vision. Disney's live-action "Aladdin": Wish for it to be over 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z
Nélisse and Dern grapple for control of The Tale, the naive girl finally glaring at the lens: “You want me to be some pathetic victim. Well, you know what, I’m not.” ‘Suffering is nothing to be afraid of’: Jennifer Fox on turning her childhood abuse into devastating drama 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z
Looking back at her career as an MP, she says, she was naive about how politics worked. Oona King: 'I couldn't resist Dancing On Ice' 2013-01-04T22:00:02Z
When I was doing all of the social/political work with Asco, I was a little naive. Painter Patssi Valdez on capturing energy, an L.A. fashion installation 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z
Prosecutors tried to build an image of Mann as a “naive” girl from rural Washington state. Is Harvey Weinstein a rapist? As trial concludes, jury will be faced with a complicated case and a heavy task. 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z
Rick, concerned this is a naive world philosophy in the age of brain-eating hordes, convinces her to station guards along the walls and post a lookout in a nearby bell tower. The Walking Dead Episode 13 Recap 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z
Brace's play leaves you unsure at what point Henry turns from a naive dreamer into a sharp operator; what it pins down very well, however, is the intensity of the swimmer-coach relationship. Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-07-31T17:32:58Z
At the beginning, I am invariably coaxed into a state of mild disapproval: the prospective parents seem too young, too naive, too unprepared. TV review: One Born Every Minute; Brain Doctors 2013-02-14T07:00:13Z
He was next able to create a role of his own, as the naive Army officer in occupied Okinawa in "Teahouse of the August Moon." John Forsythe of film and TV fame dies at 92 2010-04-02T19:02:00Z
The Bible is the word of God, Christians believe, but why should the fact it's God's mean it has to be read with naive absolutism? How biblical literalism took root 2011-02-21T10:59:00Z
Students and colleagues dismissed him as hopelessly naive. Review | Looking back at a Bauhaus artist who tried to bridge the gap between science and art 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z
Mexico might be a more colorful Bosnia, where a girl can realize her naive dream only through abduction by a vicious warlord. Miss Bala: Beauty and the Beasts in a Mexican Drug War 2012-01-19T19:15:02Z
I'm sure I'm terribly naive about the way all this stuff works and I don't doubt that appointments to all sorts of quangos are flawed in many ways. Veronica Wadley and Boris Johnson: where will it end? 2010-06-25T15:48:00Z
Like that hit, freshman show, "B — " is about a naive blonde who moves in with a street-smart brunette, but, in all the ways that count, the comparisons end there. 'Apartment 23' ? and 6 other TV shows worth a visit 2012-04-06T21:20:08Z
In my naive heart of hearts, I was like, we’re coming back. Sutton Foster Talks About Why 'Younger' Made Her Feel Like She Was 'Cheating' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z
They filmed him being cocky, or frightened, or disarmingly naive. Last night's TV 2010-05-25T07:00:00Z
Sure, you can call me naive and a fool and a fan. Ozzie's leaving with a hole in his heart 2011-09-27T15:18:00Z
The result is self-conscious and unsatisfying: a shallow and naive celebratory biopic. Hitchcock – review 2013-02-07T21:00:01Z
In his comic trilogy of Austin Powers movies, Mike Myers created and starred as several characters, including Powers, a groovy 1960s photographer-cum-secret agent, and his nemesis, the cackling but sweetly naive Dr Evil. Verne Troyer obituary 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z
It's remarkable to witness how far Peggy has come from her days as a naive striver. "Mad Men" recap: Cure for the common job 2010-08-30T12:59:00Z
When I first worked with him in the late 1970s, I was a naive youngster from Kentucky and he was like a mentor to me. Bowie and me 2013-02-23T08:00:24Z
Atrocities stir up emotions that make calls for calm consideration seem naive and insulting. In 2023, nobody knows how to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2013, Anthony Bourdain did 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z
I was naive about how much I was going to hurt her. ‘He collapsed at the roadside. I thought he was dead’: couples on surviving trauma 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z
And that means placing anybody other than a collector or a dealer at number one is either turning the blindest of eyes, or being hopelessly naive. Art power list 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z
I was a really naive kid, I just wanted to make movies.’ The evolution of Channing Tatum: from 'dull beefcake dude' to XXL movie star 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z
But even the most naive of Taylor's army likely understands that Borchetta is gunning to earn a lot more than respect for his client. Taylor Swift and Daniel Ek debate Spotify: What's a fan to do? 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z
He was nice and sincere, and charmingly naive. Love across the divide: couples on Brexit, politics and religion 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z
So it’s willfully naive to suggest that a person’s sex life should be kept wholly separate from that culture. Stop Blaming Hacking Victims for Having Nude Photos in the First Place 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z
Kelly's speech essentially warned that theatre isn't going to drastically change the world in one fell swoop; to pretend otherwise is naive. How political theatre changed its tune 2012-06-06T14:53:19Z
Two guests from hell drop in on a naive hair tonic salesman named George Betterman, invading his home and threatening to singe the wider social fabric. Review | ‘The Arsonists’ at Woolly dramatizes the modern world on fire 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z
Today, that view will seem to some naive and to many dated. Review | Phillips Collection is turning 100 and showing what future of classic museums can be 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z
It is almost naive, with some echoes of Latin American magical realism, and completely apolitical. Gritty police film a hit in Brazil 2010-12-14T09:19:34Z
Both chronicle the misadventures and tragedies of the suburban, upper-middle-class Maplewood family, mingling naive yearning, social satire, sexual dysfunction and shocking violence in a way that enthralled some viewers and disgusted others. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z
West is no arranger but Jones's criticism does seems a little naive. Quincy Jones: Kanye West is 'just a rapper' 2010-11-24T12:37:00Z
Today we may find their faith in flower power, astrology and chemical experiments naive. Hair 2010-04-14T16:56:00Z
I mean, I think I was pretty naive. "I never set out to be a whistleblower": Katharine Gun tells the true story of "Official Secrets" 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z
She's naive enough to believe in magic, yet independent enough to follow him on the boat back to Edinburgh. 'The Illusionist': Hats off to this magician's tale and tribute to Jacques Tati 2011-01-27T22:37:12Z
This set=up was clearly inadequate– for keeping out both naive amateurs who wasted the money and smart operators who just ripped them off. Film Council axemen could murder an industry 2010-07-26T16:56:00Z
Making a decision he now says was “kind of naive”, he moved to London in 2011, before any definite projects were in place. Yorgos Lanthimos, ​director of The Lobster, on his wild, star-studded life of Queen Anne 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z
Annie, pretty as a picture under her baggy pants and Doc Martens boots, is an outsider to the art world and naive to its machinations. ‘The Improbability of Love’ paints a romantic comedy about the art world 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z
The characters include foreign aid workers, the naive son of an Afghan warlord and a fish-out-of-water poetess, among others. Khaled Hosseini's new book is another tear-jerker 2013-05-20T12:48:35Z
AZ: You’ve been a little naive if you really think it’s been a fair shake all along. In ‘Allen v. Farrow,’ looking for the last word on a notoriously unresolved story 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z
Written by South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the show pokes fun at two naive missionaries who visit Uganda. Book of Mormon to play Salt Lake 2014-03-10T13:10:54Z
Singers have off nights and, call me naive, no one gets to Covent Garden who hasn't demonstrated they have a voice. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z
It’s all well and good to embrace relics of the past, but it seems willfully naive to offer them up unexamined and undigested. Review | Overly sweet ‘Faust’ at Washington National Opera proves more cloying than addictive 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z
Part naive dupe, part undeserving victim, part guilty collaborator in her downfall. Jessica Chastain redeems a televangelist in ‘Tammy Faye’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z
“The truth is I was naive to think that an artist of her age would be able to absorb the pressure involved in coming to Israel,” he wrote in Hebrew. Israel ambassador asks to meet New Zealand pop star Lorde over cancele 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z
Alone and naive, young Ebenezer falls under the protection of a savvier boy named Jacob who quickly takes advantage of him, and with that, the foundation of the partnership between Scrooge & Marley is set. Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z
Maybe I’m naive, but I find this abhorrent and fundamentally unfair to the child,” he said. Consumed by competition, parents fuel a college admissions game that few can play 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z
Meanwhile, recording studio time is expensive for those who believe enough in themselves to pursue independent careers, and greedy agents are lurking to prey on the naive. Africa's 'Big Brother' again sees Nigerian winner 2011-09-06T21:43:15Z
And 23 then was more like a 16-year-old today: We were very naive. Jane Goodall on fighting climate change: ‘The window of time is closing’ 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z
Arteta's new comedy "Cedar Rapids" tells of a naive insurance salesman's wild weekend at a convention in the big city. A Minute With: director Miguel Arteta at Sundance 2011-01-27T17:42:12Z
It’s amazing: House of Cards, that venomous riff on the evils of American politics, suddenly scans as not just retro, but naive. How the reality of Trump's America outpaced House of Cards 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z
My father wasn’t naive to the gender inequalities I would continuously face as I grew up, so one factor in my life became non-negotiable: my education. Here's What Hannah Simone Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z
Her confession that she craves a "naive realism" is a clue to her eventual fate. John Mullan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-06-29T07:00:23Z
Like many white liberals, he says, he was “naive” about Obama’s two election wins and their implication of a post-racial America. Robert De Niro: ‘Trump is a real racist, a white supremacist’ 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z
But that would be naive and a fool’s dream. Review | The American Worker: Exploited from the beginning 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z
A superior tells him he is remarkably naive for a black man. Spike Lee’s movie about a black cop infiltrating the KKK is a subtweet of Donald Trump 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z
“First of all, I didn’t think she could keep the job if she didn’t work hard. I always felt she was the hardest worker there. She’s more naive and misplaced than dumb.” Beth Howland, actress who played Vera on sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies at 74 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z
His books are simple and naive in style but feature stories with a social conscience where themes such as climate change, gender and racial equality are woven in as part of the narrative. 'One big virtual love-in': how children's book authors are creating online sanctuaries 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z
“Originality, fetish object of the young and naive, is no virtue in itself,” he writes in an essay called “Rhyme Is a Drug.” Taylor Swift joins Rilke in Michael Robbins' 'Equipment for Living,' reviewed by Justin Taylor 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z
Charles — in love with Camilla Parker Bowles and ill-equipped to deal with a naive, emotionally fragile young woman — was unable or unwilling to help her. Diana and the media: She used them, and they used her. Until the day she died. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z
Is it relevant, or a kind of naive hearsay? Blue Is the Warmest Colour is too moving to be porn 2013-05-30T13:03:15Z
She told her friend Alice Dewey that she was really not quite so naive about race as her son made her out to be. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z
Mr McCartney provided structure and form for Lennon, who, in turn, pushed against Mr McCartney’s more conventional, naive thinking. It takes two 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z
Nothing in the movie is as striking as his decision to risk seeming naive or worse by making himself part of the story. 'The House I Live In': War on drugs hits home in activist doc 2012-11-08T21:06:12Z
I like to think of these commenters as sweetly naive rather than deliberately obtuse. 10 common comments on feminist blogposts – and my responses 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z
You can argue with that, call it naive or sentimental, but there's no denying its influence. Rick Perlstein's 'The Invisible Bridge' spans Nixon-Reagan transition 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z
“I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him.” Kate Beckinsale: Harvey Weinstein 'Couldn't Remember if He Had Assaulted Me' 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z
After the incendiary start to Trump’s presidency, any call to end divisions might seem naive, but Barris says the aim of Black-ish is simply to open a dialogue. Trump called it racist, Obama loves it: why Black-ish is TV's most divisive show 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z
Comedy Africans still popped up but they were generally benign, such as Dinka, the naive, portly, generally decent Nigerian in Ice Cube’s Barbershop series. Black Panther: does the Marvel epic solve Hollywood's Africa problem? 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z
“I’m probably super naive and have no idea what’s coming down the pike for me, especially as this film proliferates in the world. But these guys don’t seem like the swiftest dudes.” ‘Navalny’ aims to make noise for imprisoned Russian leader 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z
But Brooklynn Prince would be hard to beat as the stubborn and sneaky — but also blissfully naive — little girl going on adventures around the run-down Orlando hotel where she lives. In a truly just world, the Oscars would include these 10 categories 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z
"We'd be naive if we didn't acknowledge that the sports they are showing, a lot of them involve women in swimsuits and leotards," Billings said. Study finds women competitors dominate NBC's prime time 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z
It’s a naive and lovely evocation of the power of art — backed up by an affirming work. Music of our time: Washington Chorus offers monumental Glass symphony 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z
Sometimes the things that impress a naive viewer like myself are not the hardest things to do. David Byrne discusses his new documentary “Contemporary Color”: “Whoever decided what culture is, has kind of overlooked this” 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z
I'm a bit naive because, like most things, I get interested in what I'm doing because of the passion of the music. From the Big Issue: Annie Lennox gets festive 2010-12-17T11:22:03Z
Could it be that the apparently dumb, naive Vanda is only acting when she's offstage? Cannes 2013: Venus in Fur - first look review 2013-05-25T10:04:14Z
“It’s important for me to emphasize that the American people are very naive,” the plain-spoken performer said in Hebrew, in an interview conducted with the help of an Israeli interpreter, Sivan Atzmon. What happens when a play about Palestinians goes to American campuses 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z
"Artists are constantly inspired by each other's work, and it would be naive or dishonest to say otherwise." Noises off: From Salesman to selling out 2012-06-08T11:20:39Z
Thus, he quits his quiet life in the countryside and convinces a naive peasant neighbour, Sancho Panza, to join him in his quest. Anthony Close obituary 2010-10-03T17:41:00Z
"Maybe I was naive. It seemed to me like a storm in a teacup but of course it was that particular time in that particular country." Downtown? Petula Clark goes Down Farm 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z
“The travel, the thousands of people,” Kinney recalled, “it just seems so naive now.” Jeff Kinney’s six-foot pool skimmers and the evolution of pandemic-era children’s book author events 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z
If people think you're naive, they discover in the next second that they don't have heads. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z
I was 26, healthy, debt-free, starting my writing career and amazingly, obliviously, wonderfully naive. Jackson Hole’s first Nordic ski resort has 25 kilometers of cross-country ski trails 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z
And so wrapping your nephew in pink and sending him off to fight . . . his? our? gender battle is an uneasy mix of empowering, naive and cruel. Carolyn Hax: Letting a boy be a boy, especially when he likes ‘girl’ things
“I’m a little naive sometimes but not as much as Vera. I guess I’m really a cynic,” she said. Beth Howland, Actress Who Played Vera on 'Alice,' Dies at 74 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z
Some critics, despite the immediate runaway commercial success of “Mockingbird,” found the book naive and its narration flawed, with Scout moving implausibly between childhood innocence and grown-up understanding. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z
It's fun to play a character who's more naive and hopeful, and then the present day I also enjoyed because she is undercover as a police officer. From "Class of '09" to "Black Mirror" Kate Mara loves her range of roles: "The magic is still there" 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z
“All of these things – it’s almost like I had this very naive, protected life in Hollywood because I was always the child.” Christina Ricci: 'I thought I'd do better as I got older' 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z
“I felt it was sort of naive,” he said. Revived ‘Designated Survivor’ shows how TV world has changed 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z
Telling a story from such a naive perspective cuts two ways. 'Winter in Wartime': Nazis and the mysteries of adult life, through a teen's eyes 2011-04-14T21:56:10Z
I was, I concede, a naive young adult, filled, like many young people, with lots of unearned opinions about how the world should work. I stood up for the national anthem by sitting down for it 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z
Clear-eyed but uncynical, this engrossing novel delves deep into personal motivation, naive belief and moral confusion. Review | The best new audiobooks for your Thanksgiving drive 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z
Erin Wilhelmi is a shimmering mess of trembling nerves and sweetly naive enthusiasm as the shy new office assistant, Eliot. Review: Office vibe turns comical in 'Core Values' 2013-05-09T18:49:07Z
I did make one film for them 16 years ago, but I was naive then. Hugh Grant regrets making film for Murdoch-owned studio 2011-07-15T14:59:05Z
The Kama Sutra, as a book of technique – a sexual self-help manual for the socially naive, a way for geeks to make it with girls – is fascinating, therefore, in what it omits. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z
Loyalty program critics used to be ridiculed by other frequent travelers for being naive or feeling entitled, or both. Perspective | Unhappy with your travel loyalty program? Join the crowd. 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z
But Joe isn’t cast as a Stepford husband so much as a bit naive and at the end of his rope. Review: Humans is a Robot Chiller for the Smartphone Era 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z
"When I broke rank, I was naive enough to believe that by starting the process, I thought the others would follow me," he says now. John Dean takes a fresh look at Watergate in 'Nixon Defense' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z
Simpson trial, said the critics who lament what they see as softball questions are "grossly naive." As Larry King prepares to sign off, everyone's talking 2010-12-14T17:01:05Z
For better or worse, the idea that the only relationship between theme parks and movies is via branding arrangements, a la the "Tomorrowland" film, will seem as naive and early-days as the steam trolley. VR Watch: Theme-park company Landmark expands into virtual reality 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z
The same, of course, might well be said of the United States, which is one reason we remain, as a culture, so politically naive. Considering George Orwell on the anniversary of his death 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z
But despite, or because of, his missionary goodwill, he tended to be seen as a duffer – shy, awkward, naive. Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals, 1939-1995, edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland, with Natasha Spender – review 2012-08-03T21:55:00Z
Mr. Mustaine remains a skeptical figure from what we’d now consider a naive time, when tough-minded, self-taught virtuosos wore spandex; he sang one argumentative song after another, about paranoia and demagoguery and religious wars. Music Review: Music Review: Big Four With Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica 2011-09-15T11:29:14Z
Is it naive of us to think that his siblings would each give up a percentage of their inheritance to make my husband whole and even things out? Perspective | Ask Amy: Where there is a will, there is no way 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z
She fully admits being naive, quirky, young for her age and ill-attuned to the social expectations of another culture. Waiting to be Heard: A Memoir by Amanda Knox – review 2013-05-01T12:06:08Z
But much of the movie’s first half is turbid, naive and dead-serious, an awkward collection of clichés from pulp fiction, ladies’ division. Titanic, TIME and Me 2012-04-04T20:24:41Z
Useful idiot, a naive person who can be exploited politically I had a useful idiot; for years he kissed my bottom. Style Invitational Week 1417: Dead Letters, our annual obit-poem contest 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z
Teenagers aren't that naive and trusting these days… it would freak me out if my daughter ever said she was going to hitchhike anywhere. Is hitchhiking a thing of the past? 2011-08-13T23:06:26Z
Actually, the questions Malick is pursuing in "The Tree of Life" are simple, even purposefully naive ones that have plagued human beings since the beginning of time. Cannes: Brad Pitt and Terrence Malick's crazy religious allegory 2011-05-16T16:45:00Z
Star is naive, but not in a cute, Will-Ferrell-in-Elf sort of way. Is Lee Daniels' rags-to-riches R&B drama Star better than Empire? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z
I really liked Harriet Harman's complaint that everyone was asking her if she had read that book about a cruel, controlling dominant and a naive submissive. Boris Johnson: the best jokes from his conference speech 2012-10-09T11:33:03Z
Socialism is on the cards again – it is no longer ridiculed as something archaic and naive. 'Hope has started to grow': Maxine Peake on Corbyn, people power and Peterloo’s radical legacy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z
“She is very naive, and she kind of thinks through a mist, and she lacks the education to expand her world.” Jean Stapleton, 90, beloved Edith Bunker on ‘All in the Family,’ dies 2013-06-02T03:01:52Z
But to believe the sex industry doesn’t have an effect on the private lives and identities of its workers is equally naive. Intimacy after the “call girl” years: How sex work changed the way I have sex 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z
Watching her struggle on screen, and looking back at the naive, self-absorbed version of me in my Ms. days, I see a young woman incapable of properly supporting someone who deserved a stronger protector. There are many Gloria Steinems in ‘The Glorias.’ One of them was my boss. 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z
But alas — fans were naive to hope that this would be his last act of plagiarism.  A Brief History of Shia LaBeouf Copying the Work of Others 2014-02-10T18:28:00Z
There was, however, criticism that this was exactly what the productions were – well-meaning but naive attempts to borrow ideas from the east and attach them to western forms. Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre 2012-08-10T14:31:00Z
There will be plenty other such moments ahead, and many will probably make this one seem naive. Sundance 2015: The perils and pleasures of VR cinema 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z
I guess he was a lot less naive than I was. "I never set out to be a whistleblower": Katharine Gun tells the true story of "Official Secrets" 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z
You may be naive about the potential impact on you. Ask Amy: Adoptee finds birth family, encounters denial 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z
"It's going to get rid of armies, man...decentralize wealth-" These people are so naive. Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z
He was depicted as a scheming, devious showbiz character who exploited the naive young rappers, withheld their paychecks and kept much of the money for himself. Jerry Heller, music executive who launched gangsta rappers N.W.A., dies at 75 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z
Based on the novel by Brian Selznick, whose earlier book was adapted by Martin Scorsese as Hugo, this looks like a more naive tale for the Carol director. The most exciting films of 2017: returning auteurs 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z
Some might find the movie's take-home optimism naive and Muniz's attitude itself open to question. Waste Land ? review 2011-02-24T22:20:01Z
As users, we certainly cannot allow ourselves to remain naive, believing that the search engine shows all relevant results, the social networking site welcomes all posts, the video platform merely hosts what users generate. When the school is the bully 2012-05-18T16:15:00Z
When the naive solider beams about being sent off to Turkey, the old man seems confused, almost incredulous. The success of "Dunkirk" is proof that the World War II myth machine is still alive and well 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z
A naive 16-year-old Scotsman journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves while accompanied by a mysterious traveler. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z
The Texas gun, for example, looks naive and unsophisticated when compared to, say, a Walther PPK. Will Defense Distributed's shots be heard 'round the world? 2013-05-11T23:05:29Z
"It was inadvertent, naive, unconscious... by the time Men At Work had recorded the song, it had become unrecognisable." 2010-02-05T10:28:00Z
Mr Karzai’s naive pacifism and his disdain for military affairs maddened American generals. Karzai Inc 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z
Of course, there are perilous rapids and black bears ready to do the naive, risk-taking humans in. Review | ‘Raft of Stars’ takes a cue from Hemingway, then puts a less macho spin on the adventure tale 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z
On the show she will play a "bright and enthusiastic young woman with a somewhat naive view of the world". X Factor's Diana Vickers in TV role 2013-05-02T13:49:14Z
It would be naive to suppose only a few "rotten apples" were responsible. The brutal death of Baha Mousa 2013-05-03T10:53:56Z
It is remarkably naive to think that this tome couldn’t possibly have a sequel subtitled “Rise, Fall, Recovery, Fall.” How California Turned Into a ‘State of Resistance’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z
The obsessive and controlling artist pitted against the vulnerable and naive muse with a sinister, Mrs Danvers-esque antagonist thrown in for good measure. Why Phantom Thread should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z
Already, the New Statesman has weighed in with a critique of Femen's "jihad", arguing that it is naive to defend the rights of women in north Africa in this cheerfully secular way. A gloriously crude topless 'jihad' from a Femen activist 2013-04-05T15:18:20Z
But I was young, naive and it was my first time out of Europe. Ten airport horror stories that will make you never want to fly again 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z
He may be naive and guileless, but he’s no idiot. Review | ‘The Day the Sun Died’ is a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z
That any politician of the era could have wholly avoided making the kind of compromises they did is probably naive. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z
Photograph: Gary Calton Sébastien Tellier is perhaps the archetypal French pop star: louche yet naive, sensitive yet flippant, proud of his French heritage but determined to sing mostly in English to reach a wider audience. Sébastien Tellier: 'In France we are very free with sex' 2012-05-30T14:51:48Z
But the photos exist forevermore on the Interwebs, and folks are eating them up — because, how cute, how naive these kids are! Answering kids’ sex questions 2012-08-16T00:00:00Z
I was naive to think something I cooked up could ever look as good as it did on an X-ray screen. First-time hunter vs. turkey: Thanksgiving dinner is on the line. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z
The script also “did not present a fair depiction of 1930s small-town Alabama” by tying it to today’s social climate and portrayed protagonist Atticus Finch as initially naive to racism, according to the lawsuit. Broadway's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' may be scrapped in legal flap 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z
As a youth, she identified with the “Middlemarch” character Dorothea, an impassioned, naive upper-class girl of 19, who longs for “a substantial, rewarding, meaningful life,” but disastrously weds the frigidly pedantic middle-aged scholar, Casaubon. ‘My Life in Middlemarch’: looking through a novel’s lens 2014-02-12T20:11:16Z
“I think that’s probably pretty naive, but I feel fine,” she said. MTV Movie Awards' Amy Schumer: No jokes about 'people changing their gender' 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z
But naive though she may be, she turns out to be amazingly resilient, able to endure a gruesome fate-worse-than-death and then instantly shake it off and run around like it never happened. Michael Fassbender brightens alien world of 'Prometheus' 2012-06-06T17:15:04Z
Wright sent him the script and described Baby’s character — a somewhat naive kid who essentially lives off the grid, given his criminal occupation. How Edgar Wright used music to transform the heist movie with ‘Baby Driver’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z
Natty costume, too, and once the mask comes off, Driver’s tendency to look simultaneously naive and knackered plays nicely into the scriptwriter’s hands. The Force Awakens: is the acting strong in this one? 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z
The Van Gogh we meet here is far from the fiery, ear-slicing visionary of popular repute; rather, a hopelessly naive underling posted to London by a firm of international art dealers. Vincent in Brixton – review 2013-06-12T16:42:47Z
Radcliffe, 23, plays poet Allen Ginsberg aged 17 - a young, naive and closeted teen who struggles to find his place in the world years before the sexual and cultural liberation of the 1960s. Daniel Radcliffe: from boy wizard to gay beat poet 2013-01-25T02:43:34Z
It would be naive to assume that Cochran’s desire to defend OJ was purely altruistic. The People v OJ Simpson: episode three – the Dream Team comes together 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z
Somewhere between a Buddhist temple garden and the tropical fantasies of naive painter Henri Rousseau, fragments of American suburbia brashly invade Goh’s land. In the galleries: At Hamiltonian, a birthday celebration of a different sort 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z
I was naive to think that a piece of clothing could turn me into a person, especially as I hadn't decided who that person was. Finders keepers: my favourite piece of clothing 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z
“I honestly don’t think I worried much about it, but maybe I was a bit naive.” Are we ready for a gay Disney princess? We may be closer than you think. 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z
Have they merely faked an old recording, or did these two naive aficionados somehow turn the key in the lock that released a restive ghost? ‘White Tears,’ by Hari Kunzru, hears the distorted sounds of the past 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z
Gould says he was “not sufficiently developed” to harness his newfound vision and naive about the demands of a production. ‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z
Eunice proves to be the world’s first fully sentient artificial intelligence, smarter than any human but still somewhat inexperienced and naive. Review | An ‘app whisperer’ teams up with time travelers in William Gibson’s ‘Agency’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z
Gatiss recognises that Wells was writing an allegory of imperialism: Bedford seeks to colonise the moon and plunder it for its vast deposits of gold, while Cavor, a naive man of science, seeks only knowledge. Mark Gatiss: Rocket man 2010-10-11T20:30:00Z
To deny its naive, yet uplifting power would be demeaning for all of us. Readers recommend: songs about assassination 2010-08-19T23:01:00Z
“I want it to be more thrilling than the one in Hong Kong, where the rides were a bit naive for us.” Shanghai Disney theme park trading Main Street for the Garden of the Twelve Friends 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z
Related: Hateful Eight cinematographer calls for new 'effects-free' Oscars category “But we need that sometimes – to be naive, blind from reality,” he continued. Alejandro González Iñárritu: I made 'irresponsible decisions' on The Revenant shoot 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z
They often featured flowers, birds and trees, or tradesmen at work and were rendered in an intentionally naive, shallow perspective. Wallpaper murals used to be a major splurge, but new tech is bringing them to the masses 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z
Müller’s style — naive, narrative scenes with multiple figures and vivid colors — resonated deeply. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z
He once described Rodney from Only Fools and Horses as a "teeny bit me" because he was also a bit of a "naive dreamer" as a teenager. Only Fools creator Sullivan dies 2011-04-23T17:21:45Z
She called herself "trustworthy" -- not in a good way, but in a naive way -- and said she can't be like that anymore. Teresa Giudice reacts to prison sentence, calls it 'unexpected' 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z
Being young and naive, I checked it was OK for me to leave the vodka bottle with him. The night Freddie Mercury chatted me up in Heaven 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z
But I also found a kindred spirit within this nerdy naive kid who idolised musicians, sat in his room listening to Cat Stevens and dreamed of having "mystique"– a quality I definitely still lack. Why I'd like to be … Patrick Fugit in Almost Famous 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z
"The idea that this all happened in a vacuum seems naive to me," he countered. Jon Stewart grills Judith Miller over her Iraq reporting 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z
We were naive to think that FOX would put the show out of its misery before we had to cross this bridge. “The Simpsons” can’t survive this: Harry Shearer is the soul of Springfield — if he leaves, fans will follow 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z
And his character was coded as much younger — likely 15 or 16, and a squire who at the time was still mostly naive to the ways of the world. Arya Stark is an adult woman: "Game of Thrones" sex shock is rooted in hypocritical purity culture 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z
Certainly, an outward charm is part of Smith’s aesthetic strategy, though there’s nothing naive or whimsical beneath her surface. Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z
But many nuns are highly educated, well-traveled and sophisticated, not naive and cloistered. ‘Sister Act’ brings its roof-raising soul to Seattle 2013-08-15T19:19:13Z
He is determined but naive and clumsy, running around frontlines in a white T-shirt and setting fire to his own bathroom. Panorama: A Very British Hero 2010-05-24T05:45:00Z
Do you think there is a conflict between the need to expose fresh injustices and the need to challenge naive assumptions that our suffering is somehow anything new? Steve McQueen: 'Black people are weirdly missing from the narrative' 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z
He let it be known that he viewed me as a naive, clueless “socialist” who is hell-bent on destroying America. Ask Amy: Brother-in-law’s growls intimidate visitor 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z
Korine's films are, essentially, naive attempts at finding beauty within ugliness. Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers soundtrack is a load of rubbish 2010-07-07T16:00:00Z
To say that marriage at 40 is a lateral move is not to say that I’ve risked nothing and there’s no romance in it, only that I’m no longer naive. I was a “male spinster” 2012-11-29T01:00:00Z
After more than half a century of his manoeuvrings, carefully and tellingly itemised in this book, it may seem naive even to ask the question. Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight – review 2013-02-20T07:01:01Z
America’s current election infrastructure is, as Kill Chain explains, a prescription for disaster – an outdated, willfully naive system no more prepared for attack than four years ago. Hack the vote: terrifying film shows how vulnerable US elections are 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z
“When I first came out here, I was totally naive. I didn’t know where to start,” says Hall, 85, sitting in his handsome 1929 Spanish-style home. Philip Baker Hall is your favorite actor whose name you can’t quite place 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z
My naive little idea back in the beginning was, oh my God radio has been such a negative influence on people's sexual behaviors and drug and alcohol and they've been encouraging all this stuff. Dr. Drew is worried about the "impact of pornography" and reveals his COVID-19 fears 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z
Simultaneously naive and knowing, she seems to be discovering the world right before our eyes. Unnerving consideration of artificial intelligence in 'Ex Machina' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z
He was a sort of naive, silly young man. Kit Harington on the 'Teenage, Morbid Fascination' Behind His Latest Role 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z
Unsurprisingly, these activities did not win her many friends, particularly in Ireland, where it was felt that her nationalism was naive. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z
"The performance was nervous and awkward," Fink sings over a naive xylophone riff. Noah and the Whale, and Bukowski 2011-02-11T09:52:36Z
So bookishness and naive romanticism are accompanied by trebly guitars. Frankie & the Heartstrings: Hunger ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:25Z
None of these well-informed women came to this book naive — or unconcerned — about the alarming plight of the poor in America. Perspective | Feeling discouraged about the state of the world? Drop in on a book club. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z
So how do you hold on to some spirit of innocence and naive happiness in your life? "Mad Men" recap: Innocence lost 2010-08-02T06:05:00Z
Now, maybe I’m naive, and AOC is in three tweets cannily signaling her solidarity with a suite of partisan environmental and social issues, such as addressing urban food deserts and climate change. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez planted a community garden plot. It’s good for the earth — and her. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z
I felt nauseatingly naive for not having considered how wealth and privilege would play into my application process. That waitress who thinks she can write: Waiting tables and crafting a novel in the infamous MFA town 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z
“It’s good to be young and naive and full of energy,” says Spain. Where can I hear local composers? Northwest Symphony Orchestra 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z
“We look at that kind of positivity as naive,” he said. Perspective | My family knew Mister Rogers. And yes, he was like that in real life. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z
“Honestly, it was super naive of us. We just assume that everyone will be inclusive and have offered every size.” Rings Fit for All Fingers 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z
While not naive, Rainbow remains hopeful that he might have some small effect on people. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z
Prosecutors have made a concerted effort to portray Mann as a "naive" young woman from a small town in Washington state. Analysis | Harvey Weinstein accuser Jessica Mann’s dramatic testimony is a new kind of test in sex-crime trials 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z
I don’t think of myself as the jealous type, but I’m starting to feel like my expectations might be over-earnest and naive. My new hubby shoots upskirts 2013-03-05T01:00:00Z
Among these, let me nominate one more: listening to Hillary partisans explain to those of us who support Bernie Sanders just how naive we are. Hillary will never survive the Trump onslaught: It’s not fair, but it makes her a weak nominee 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z
His arrogance and profligacy were starkly at odds with the naive, humble character with which he had established himself. Sylvester Stallone: the wacky people's champ who battled his own ego 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z
“What can be fun and brassy about the in-your-face style of Adult Swim combines with the dichotomy of them being animals, which allows us to pull back and see how naive they are about things.” Sundance 2015: Can an animated animal show change the way TV is made? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z
He blames himself for being “completely naive” and “not paying attention” and for assuming that as a foreigner, he was “somehow exempt” from the informal rules that applied to locals. Red sky in the morning 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z
Luckily, it's not too photographic: it's in a naive style, with a beautiful use of colour. Nigel Kennedy 2013-03-05T17:45:00Z
Worse, our naive hero finds that virtually everyone is fiddling expenses. Stiffed! 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z
Rarely has a naive virgin stepped into a more perilous scenario. Once Upon a Secret: My Hidden Affair with JFK by Mimi Alford ? review 2012-02-10T11:00:02Z
I've shown myself as weak, sometimes naive, and written about sexual rejection. Women and sex: intimate adventurers 2011-07-06T07:00:00Z
Yet her business affairs may not be naive. Megan Ellison, the most powerful new force in Hollywood 2013-02-18T19:56:34Z
I’m not naive to that element of the business. Ellen Page: ‘Being out became more important than any movie’ 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z
And it sounds incredibly naive now, but several years ago, that's what I sort of thought. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z
And just as the writing becomes more naive, so do the characters. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T09:00:00Z
Bolivia’s naive innocence is demonstrated because Bolivia does what Janes says. Narcos and Our Brand is Crisis both sell Latin America short 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z
But perhaps I was naive to the fact that maybe people did think I just do one thing. Bradley Cooper mines Philly childhood in "Silver Linings" 2012-11-14T10:02:45Z
Songwriter Colin Hay has called any reference to Sinclair's folk song "inadvertent, naive, unconscious". Appeal over Men At work 'rip-off' 2010-02-25T12:59:00Z
It's easy to patronise these songs that Cardew wrote, performed and recorded towards the end of his life as socially naive and musically limited. A guide to Cornelius Cardew's music 2012-12-17T15:48:17Z
For the naive man who became my ex-husband and now sits across the field, on the opposing team’s side. All my parenting mistakes 2012-06-26T00:00:00Z
Far from politically or intellectually naive, Glaude anticipates criticism from the black political class that such a blank-out campaign "amounts to no more than electoral nihilism." 'Democracy in Black' is a bracing a call to action for African Americans 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z
But there’s something naive and self-centered about his devotion. Book review: ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber
In Betty America Ferrera has created a character who is at once worried and optimistic, clumsy and impressive, driven and naive. The beauty of Ugly Betty 2010-12-22T11:08:21Z
Maybe it's because we still think of Sansa as a naive young girl. All the Evidence Arya and Sansa Are Plotting Against Littlefinger on 'Game of Thrones' 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z
Its women have brief, thrilling victories, but this isn’t naive enough to turn 18th-century London into a fairytale world in which women have the upper hand. 'Obscenely enjoyable': why Harlots is the best show you're not watching 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z
“To be honest, I was quite naive going into it – I didn’t really expect anything,” she says. ‘I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it’: how it feels to make a TV flop 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z
Simplified forms, flattened color, irregular perspective — stylistically, landscape paintings and genre scenes by Jessie Homer French might be termed naive. Jessie Homer French at Various Small Fires: In death, she finds life 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z
She's shy and naive, but also determined – determined to get into something that involves being physically and mentally tortured for very little money. TV review: Agony & Ecstasy: A Year With English National Ballet; Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India; Horizon: Predators in Your Backyard 2011-03-08T22:05:01Z
For Daisey to shrug this off as simply a poor choice of venue is willfully naive at best. This American Life?s Apple Retraction: The Danger of Truthiness 2012-03-16T19:32:44Z
“Our approach was sort of naive,” Mr. Storm said, using “guerilla tactics” to try different things until they found what worked. The Carpetbagger: Clothes and Character: ‘Her’ 2014-02-21T21:05:09Z
But Rule does say: "It would be naive to say artists are not influenced." A user's guide to art-speak 2013-01-27T19:00:02Z
In an interview, she said she didn't think about making a hit album with "Heart Like a Wheel" and was naive about the business of music. U2, Linda Ronstadt among 25 albums to be preserved 2014-04-02T14:05:53Z
The naive Elizabeth is a bundle of nerves and indignation, bubbling with prejudice. London River 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z
I can't help feeling that this is a tragically naive decision by the government. Film Council axemen could murder an industry 2010-07-26T16:56:00Z
“It’s naive not to recognize that a corporate imperative goes into all media,” said Michael Harrison, the publisher of Talkers magazine, which covers talk radio. Talk-radio owner orders conservative hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z
This may sound naive, but honestly ask yourself how proactive you are about being happy at work. Tips for Keeping That Post-Vacation Feeling 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z
She's shown as a victim here, naive rather than bad, heavily manipulated by her husband. Canoe Man and Who Needs Fathers? | TV review 2010-04-01T05:45:00Z
Barter Books didn't see the opportunity that I saw, and I think they were rather naive in failing to register the domain name or trademark the slogan. Keep Calm and Carry On trademark battle enters new year 2013-01-02T19:53:35Z
They discover him in the person of Fortunio – the naive young clerk in her husband's office whose innocence prevents him being taken seriously. Fortunio – review 2013-07-11T17:43:00Z
She sometimes told him he was too naive. She was a conservative pundit. He was a liberal activist. At home, none of that mattered. 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z
Such decisions come directly from the top, and call me naive, but that’s beyond baffling. Does CBS care about #MeToo? 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z
“Are we naive today to believe that the gods of the present will survive and be here in a hundred years?” Collective consciousness to replace God: author Dan Brown 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z
The liberals in the Cabinet consider Johnson well-intentioned but naive. Better than Bryan Cranston? Star of South Coast Rep's 'All the Way' delivers a most convincing LBJ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z
Such scenes had been inconceivable for all but the naive. East German officer who opened Berlin Wall wept moments later 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z
The glamorous but naive Katherine is taken up by the intellectual, self-indulgent, Goldman family, and has her heart broken in a series of vivid, comical vignettes – and that's just the first half of the novel. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z
She is very naive, and she kind of thinks through a mist, and she lacks the education to expand her world. Jean Stapleton, TV’s Edith Bunker, Dies at 90 2013-06-01T21:24:50Z
Because it involved admitting that I was naive, that I didn’t put nearly as much thought into the business of rearing good feminist boys as it deserved. A feminist's guide to raising boys 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z
Most of the painting and drawing is of the naive school, but Kat Lyons shows more finesse in her picture of an ant in a blazing forest, inspired by California’s wildfires. Review | In the galleries: Artist explores the dissonance between humanity and the world 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z
Star Wars catches both America’s light and dark sides, its naive optimism and its crass, domineering pursuit of profit. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z
As Vanity Fair writes, "Somehow, in her hands, Sandy's journey was inspiring: She grows from a naive girl to an empowered woman who's in control and knows what she needs. Oh yes, indeed." Before it was cool or safe, Olivia Newton-John was a queer icon and ally 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z
Dean says he knew it was wrong but wondered if he was naive. John Dean, Watergate’s golden boy, is back in the spotlight 50 years later 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z
"Somebody who was truly naive and was trying to do the best he could do, but it didn't always come out like that." Through Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens reminded Gen X to stay true to our immature inner children 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z
Thus she was naive to how Robert’s photographic art was evolving. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z
It was, in retrospect, “incredibly stupid” of her to go to his hotel room, even if she was a naive 20-something. ‘Everything . . . had sexual connotations’: Being young, female and a reporter in the 1960s 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z
The Seattle artist blends computer-controlled chance procedures with quirky, naive cartoon animation. 2 Seattle exhibitions cover strange terrain 2011-10-20T20:17:04Z
Maybe not a traitor, but so naive for not seeing that the Germans were using him as propaganda. Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise; Wodehouse In Exile – TV review 2013-03-26T07:00:03Z
His skill for optics is not as naive and aw-shucks as it seems. Review | In HBO’s ‘Believer,’ a Mormon rock star delivers an all-too-easy message of love 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z
If George is naive, there’s nothing naive about Nathan Harris or the story he tells. Review | Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, ‘The Sweetness of Water,’ is a miraculous debut 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z
Seemed naive of Peggy to think that her mother would be OK with this, no? Mad Men Monday: Is Megan becoming Don? 2012-04-30T17:51:15Z
It is mind-boggling how naive people are – OK, stupid – that they think I eat four packs of bacon. Meat Loaf's farewell tour: 'This time, they're not going to rope me back in' 2013-04-02T17:23:16Z
Actually, the questions Malick is pursuing in "The Tree of Life" are simple ones, even purposefully naive ones, which have plagued human beings since the beginning of time. Pick of the week: Malick's gorgeous, crazy "Tree of Life" 2011-05-27T00:30:00Z
Not directly, but talk to many scientists about the arts, especially abstract genres, and they can be quite naive. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z
Montages of old people set to mawkish piano music, naive "political statements"… It felt like an overblown way of reversing the whole "mong" saga. Comedians get chance to fall flat on TV, and Eddie Izzard sets sights on politics 2013-02-05T16:36:20Z
This reflection began, innocently enough, with my naive desire to talk about satire. How whites should talk about white privilege: (Hint, it’s not like Tal Fortgang) 2014-05-07T11:45:00Z
Fussell believed such idealism, naive as it may appear to us now, had to be taken seriously. Paul Fussell, the critic who fought the cant of military sacrifice 2012-05-24T20:52:53Z
The finding has big implications for stem-cell research, much of which focuses on reverting cells that have already been designated a function back to their naive, embryonic state. Edith Heard: 'We can't undo what our parents have given us in terms of our genes' 2013-06-22T23:05:02Z
Savile's involvement with naive and starstruck vicars was of course just a staging post in his extraordinary career, most of which was spent in light entertainment. Jimmy Savile: the BBC must opt for full disclosure to draw a line under its past 2012-10-09T14:59:01Z
When I began my research I was unprepared, almost naive. My grandfather's whole family were murdered – but he found a way to forgive the killers 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z
I was exceedingly naive, and though no virgin, was blindsided by my first taste of serial sex. The moment my marriage was over: 'I had no idea I was living with a drug dealer' 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z
But in terms of the image it projected, the NSO, by Russian standards, seemed naive. Perspective | The concert was about unity; the message was all Russian 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z
He takes it from sounding very naive to grotesque within seconds, then back again.” Well-traveled pianist Yefim Bronfman to return to Seattle 2012-12-06T22:14:14Z
Maybe I was naive but I didn't anticipate the weight of that. Stephen K Amos: 'I used to joke I'd have to wait for Lenny Henry to die before I could get on TV" 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z
Galactia herself, aside from being brilliant, is vain, arrogant and politically naive. Scenes from an Execution – review 2012-10-05T16:58:22Z
Over the next few years, he jumped into international negotiations, headstrong and at first naive, but fascinated by the micro ways to wrangle a macro problem. What was COP26? A slog, a spectacle — and, for one youthful delegation, an opportunity. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z
It’s his favourite scene in a show filled with “Stillman-esque” types: the posh, the naive and the navel-gazing. Whit Stillman: ‘I find it remarkable that people hate my work’ 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z
I would be naive to think that it would be a walk in the park. Director Julian Schnabel on taking the flak for his new film 2010-10-24T20:45:00Z
“The truth is I was naive to think that an artist of her age would be able to absorb the pressure involved in coming to Israel,” he wrote in Hebrew. Israel ambassador asks to meet New Zealand pop star Lorde over cancele 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z
“It’s naive to suggest we all have to be polite to each other all the time,” Berman says. We live in uncivil times. Two former White House social secretaries offer a cure. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z
“A Facebook message from the bride... My naive self thought she was messaging to ask if we got home okay... N O P E.” Bride demands guests 'gift' more money the morning after the wedding 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z
Maybe it was naive of me, but it didn't actually occur to me. Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z
But as I sat there eating my bacon and eggs, this naive couplet brought the realization home: You really can’t go to northern Cyprus without being aware of its politics. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z
Grace said she's not naive enough to think that many, or any, of the missing people will be discovered alive through the attention paid on her show. HLN's Nancy Grace doing 50 shows on missing people 2011-01-15T22:46:03Z
A girl who was naive and had the belief that all people were good. Convicted NY designer: 'Truth will surface' 2013-04-13T20:46:07Z
It sounds so naive to talk about hope. The Uncondemned: the heartbreaking story behind the first conviction of rape as a war crime 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z
If you raised it, you were laughed off as naive; there was the underlying feeling that maybe you just weren’t good enough to really impress him. 'It was like tending to a disgusting baby': life as a Harvey Weinstein employee 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z
“I was so naive. I thought everything was going to be fine. That none of it would happen to my babies,” says Courtney. ‘I never knew whether I’d take my two premature babies home’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z
The problem with new art at the National Gallery used to be that its contemporary exhibitions seemed either tacked-on or critically naive. Modern masters: can contemporary art mix with ancient treasures? 2012-10-01T15:03:01Z
Despite his background, David is baffled by the world into which his son descends – the naive parent staring distraught across the generation gap. Beautiful boys acting ugly: why cinema can't kick its drug habit 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z
The styles range from loose to precise, masterly to naive. In the galleries: Two photographers, two perspectives 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z
The displacement is on many theatrical levels and has just begun, naive ideas beginning to grow mightily. REDCAT opens new work festival with a theme of displacement 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z
Giving nothing away, they were able to watch pâté de foie gras sales continue to grow, the pâté's naive Tory purchasers unaware of the irony of their actions. Gobbling pâté allowed a nation to scoff at the legacy of Thatcherism 2013-04-20T21:00:03Z
At the same time, however, the show was sort of amazing, because it captured the mix of naive sentimentality and rancid cynicism that defines showbiz -- and the audience's relationship to showbiz. The Golden Globes of hatred 2011-01-17T14:10:00Z
The central plot driver in “Royal Blood” is easy to relate to: what will become of the naive, mentally challenged Deb in Cliff’s decline? ‘Royal Blood,’ ‘Checkoff in the Sun’ 2014-03-27T20:58:04Z
Just ask all those naive folks who tweeted about Lord McAlpine. Online, some are more equal than others 2013-03-10T00:05:42Z
It’s a nervy performance, acutely attuned to the volcanic changes that a naive creature must enjoy and endure on her first leap into mad passion. Anna Karenina: Keira Knightley Gives Her All for Love 2012-11-15T13:00:53Z
Before long, Atticus is joined by the book’s three main children, the defiant Jem, the naive Scout, and the uncharacteristically-quiet Dill. “Scout is a lesbian”: Some modest theories on what Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” follow-up will hold 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z
Plus, there were a lot of drugs and I didn't realise everyone was on drugs … I was a little bit naive. Is there life after SNL for Brooks Wheelan? These stars did just fine 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z
In one of the most hysterically naive moments in history, Ben hoped that the girls would be gracious and welcoming to the new arrival. The Bachelor Watch: That's My Man! 2012-01-17T14:20:36Z
Here, at least, your television critic can for once enjoy not being Mr. ’90s Know-It-All and see things from the relatively naive perspective of a younger audience. Review | Who killed Tupac and B.I.G.? Another ’90s crime gets the cable series treatment. 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z
She: Tells you how naive and misguided you are. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Friend is going through a hard time and taking it out on others 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z
“People attack him for being naive. They think that criticism or pressure is somehow going to move him, but it actually makes him double down.” Washington’s hottest club is Joe Manchin’s houseboat 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z
She remembers shaking as he told her: “This is a telltale case of a young girl who is book smart and not street smart. You are naive.” Desirée Venn Frederic went from jail cell to style-setter 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z
Ray is the novel’s naive and terrified witness to the gore of war. ‘In the Wolf’s Mouth,’ by Adam Foulds
Then again, perhaps I'm being naive and the CIA really are stealing ideas from the pages of 2000 AD in their ongoing battle against terrorism. The Bourne Legacy trailer: will it bring you running? 2012-06-01T15:51:25Z
But yeah, I thought I’d walk on the beach, but I was a bit naive and I got really paparrazzi’d but I got the picture. Mick Jagger explains his Instagram obsession and how he wound up at the Thirsty Beaver Saloon 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z
It may sound naive but, up until that point, I always thought it was mandatory to leave your place of birth. Notes from a trailing spouse: “Just like I pictured it” How does a city pick its people? 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z
They are no longer naive waifs straight out of drama school, desperate for a credit. Is it time to restrict nude scenes to the over 50s? 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z
“I like to think I can play the field, but maybe style-wise, I’m being naive.” Can fashion launch an actress to the A-list? Meta Golding’s red carpet strategy 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z
"Maybe I was naive. It seemed to me like a storm in a teacup but of course it was that particular time in that particular country." Downtown? Petula Clark goes Down Farm 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z
Weeks comes off like a naive puppy dog with a punch. Black Mass: the glamorization of Whitey Bulger muddles an already murky story 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z
When I started working on this with my producer Christian Colson, we were both relatively naive. Oscars: Selma writer tells his side 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z
As in his previous series studying mathematics and diagrams, Du Sautoy proves an engaging guide, radiating the gravitas of an academic and the joy of a naive enthusiast. TV highlights 10/06/2013 2013-06-10T06:00:13Z
And I think I’d be naive to say that women and men are exactly the same as comics—or writers, or anything—given the different experiences and socialization women and men have. Late Show Fires Comedy Booker, Revives the Are-Women-Funny Debate (Sigh) 2012-01-18T13:07:21Z
Although it’s common to think of kids as innocents, it’s less naive to try to see the world through their eyes, unencumbered by the hypocrisy of adult mores and manners. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z
But she’s less compelling in her naive state than at the end, when years later Nina returns as a scarred veteran of love and art, persevering through sheer, gritty resolve. Clarity, humor make this ‘Seagull’ fly 2013-01-31T17:44:16Z
He is portrayed as ruthlessly focused on creating that phenomenon, but by the end he seems less malicious - especially about the breakdown in his relationship with best friend Eduardo Saverin - and more naive. The Social Network: How to make a sensational film about coding Facebook, by Aaron Sorkin 2010-09-28T10:22:00Z
Such criticism is only ever naive or envious. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker – review 2012-06-08T10:00:01Z
A genuine nativity, then, rather than just being knowingly naive. Electrick Children – review 2012-07-12T21:34:01Z
Photograph: Robert Workman "Paris is the city of desire," exclaims the naive juvenile tenor in Puccini's La rondine as he arrives in the metropolis, where he hopes to be corrupted. La princesse jaune/La colombe; La rondine – review 2013-07-13T23:05:23Z
The idea wasn't to make his parents any other thing than naive. "Colin in Black & White" writer on Kaepernick's parents & awakening: "They didn't see him as Black" 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z
Kasket says it is naive to assume that our online lives die with us. What happens to our online identities when we die? 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z
I’m not arrogant or naive enough to think I’m moving the needle on national conversation anywhere near enough. James O’Brien: ‘A former EDL member said my show saved his life’ 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z
She was the hysterically naive gentile in Studio Theatre’s repeat hit “Bad Jews.” Perspective | You love theater? So do these 12 D.C. stage dynamos.  2017-11-10T05:00:00Z
“There is a generation of digital natives who nevertheless are quite digitally naive,” Mantzarlis notes. Perspective | Don’t get fooled again by bogus links, bots and pure bunk. Here’s how. 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z
At every point, fear of appearing sentimental or glib or naive, rather than a range of corresponding positive ambitions, determines her approach. The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso – review 2012-07-06T21:55:15Z
Rini also plays Sam's youthful self, exuding a bland, naive, open-faced acceptance of the status quo, The commencement weekend - and the play - are enlivened by a bickering mother- and daughter-in-law. Review: Revival of Gurney's 'Old Boy' well-staged 2013-03-06T21:59:08Z
“I was naive,” the former New Republic staffer told me by email last week. Perspective | She created a document to warn women of sexual harassers. It’s haunted her ever since. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z
There's the Innocent, "a naive but charming clown, striving to find his own place in the world"; the Trickster, "the creator and supreme master of the world of Kooza", and the zany King of Fools. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kooza/Cirque du Soleil – review 2013-01-13T00:05:32Z
At the same time, I also believe that Hart was a throwback, a man whose ideas about privacy were naive in the era of mass media and tabloid culture. From Gary Hart to Donald Trump: “We have a system that favors the shameless” 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z
Sometimes, however, the plagiarist isn’t a naive young chef. One of these is the Cronut. The other is food plagiarism. And you can’t stop it. 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z
We wrote about the next 12 months with a confidence that looks poignantly naive in retrospect. Looking ahead: The top food and agriculture stories for 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z
“A great chef doesn’t need to be there. That’s naive,” Wolf said. How often are D.C.’s top chefs actually in the kitchen?
He’s not naive but he also doesn’t seem to be a man who, perhaps, felt the full sting of racial hatred before this.  “Maybe it is not that you couldn’t. It is that you wouldn’t”: Michael Eric Dyson reflects on Obama’s complicated legacy on race 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z
Clickit: Chinese and Russian teams vie to entice naive Americans into opening email attachments. Style Invitational Week 1448: Hear, hear, it’s Limerixicon XVIII 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z
Be everything that you are but just try not to be naive.” ArtsBeat: Rihanna Speaks Out About Violent 'Man Down' Video 2011-06-03T05:51:16Z
Stephen Furst, who played naive fraternity pledge Flounder in the hit movie Animal House, has died of complications from diabetes, his family said on Saturday. Stephen Furst, actor who shone in Animal House, dies aged 63 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z
It would be naive to see the 710 corridor, by itself, as the place to solve these problems. Here are better ideas for the land Caltrans has stockpiled for the 710 Freeway extension 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z
The idea that social media might somehow change that dynamic was naive, because neither the needs nor the stakes change. Pew Study: Why Don't You Speak Your Mind On Facebook (or Twitter)? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z
Her large, vibrant images of figures, film stars and sporting heroes have been described as "exaggeratedly naive" and "quasi-cartoonish". Artist wins top painting prize at 80 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z
He later meets two comrades, one pretending to be a rock star despite poor guitar skills, and the other a naive high school student. Hit spy comedy tackles the tragedy of divided Korea 2013-07-04T02:49:06Z
Whenever the public feature in these programmes, they almost always come across as ungrateful and naive – expecting to be ferried on a magic carpet to Menorca if their aircraft's wing has fallen off. A Very British Airline: an unflattering snapshot of the UK psyche 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z
My sense is that Ridley has his critics partly because he can’t resist launching torpedoes at his pet hates, which include naive environmentalists and such like. Sharing is in our nature 2012-08-13T11:45:00Z
The young lambs to the slaughter in Wes Craven's original, and still grimily effective, 1974 "Last House on the Left" are tragically naive would-be hippie chicks. The rise and fall (and rise?) of teen horror films 2010-05-03T15:01:00Z
Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako admits he was naive to think he could shoot his award-winning drama "Timbuktu" in the ancient Mali city so soon after the French military had driven out Islamic extremists. 'Timbuktu' director Abderrahmane Sissako shines a light on extremism 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z
The notion that gay people can't play straight characters is so naive, it's foetal. Earth to Bret Easton Ellis: you needn't be straight to play a lady-spanker 2012-08-08T15:25:58Z
A lot of fact-checking takes time, some misleading statements are complicated to rebut, and it would be naive and unreasonable to expect TV producers to be able to counter most, or even many, falsehoods immediately. Dead Tree Alert: Check, Please 2012-09-14T13:29:53Z
It's a naive scenario, given richness by Vaughan Williams's summery score, with its hints of impressionism colouring the sweet and occasionally soaring lyricism of its folk-based melodies. Hugh the Drover ? review 2010-11-23T22:40:00Z
I’m not naive enough to praise it for total seclusion – the area has plenty of holiday camps and caravan parks – but there is plenty of space on that long, wonderful beach. The best travel discoveries of 2017 – chosen by Guardian writers 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z
I suppose it is naive of me to add that Liberal Democrats had campaigned against austerity in the election campaign – Clegg warned of riots on the streets. 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond by Andrew Adonis – review 2013-05-13T07:00:03Z
It would be "naive" to think it isn't grappling with security worries, pollution and political turmoil along with a deep recession that's occurred since Rio won the Games, Costas said. Olympic network NBC vows full Rio coverage, woes included 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z
Returning Ex: It’s not naive to trust each other again, as long as you’ve both grown up since you split. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She dissed her ex so she’d look better. Now he’s looking good to her. 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z
And don’t try accusing him of plagiarism or upbraiding him with your naive ideal of originality. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z
The other was a tall, self-effacing, cricket-mad and astonishingly naive Englishman with perfect manners. Mysterious frenemies: Houdini and Conan Doyle 2011-11-23T22:16:04Z
I'm pretty confident this album's going to do well, as naive as that may sound. MGMT: 'We got a glimpse of fame and shrunk back' 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z
Gervais insisted that the character is not intended to represent a specific disability; he is simply naive and gullible. Ricky Gervais' Derek: cruel, or just unusual? 2013-01-31T07:00:06Z
The more naive and conservative Avery, who narrates both novels, is Watsonian, slightly baffled by his friend’s acuity, and a stand-in for the reader scrambling to catch up to the plot’s twists. ‘The Infidel Stain’ evokes a chilling time in Victorian England 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z
People tend to realize that we were so young and naive that we were fragile, not just physically, mentally too. Q&A: The Wrongly Convicted Central Park Five on Their Documentary, Delayed Justice and Why They’re Not Bitter 2013-01-08T13:00:30Z
Nor is he naive about his chances of fixing the system. A top chef from a world-famous restaurant wants to fix America’s school lunches 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z
The Seattle company will open its season in September with a new dramatization of Olympia writer Jim Lynch's acclaimed novel "Border Songs," about a lanky, naive bird-watcher who joins the U.S./Canada border patrol. Book-It Repertory to adapt Western tales for 2011-12 season 2011-06-20T20:39:03Z
You sound naive and he sounds financially irresponsible. Ask Amy: Sisters crush one another by not ‘being there’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z
That’s a shame, because embedded in “Midwestern Gothic” are intriguing conceits, one of them being the ways in which the musical twists our perceptions of horror archetypes — in particular, that of the naive, imperiled ingenue. Review | There will be blood in Signature’s ‘Midwestern Gothic’ 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z
I'd be lying if I said I had suffered discrimination, though I'm not naive enough to think it doesn't exist. God save the Queen 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z
Maybe I’m naive, but I was surprised by the reaction to that on social media and in reviews. How to Get Away With Murder's Jack Falahee: Why We Should Stop Talking About Connor's Sexuality 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z
“Believing everything you see — especially in the technology era — is naive. But not believing anything ever, no matter how much evidence comes out — that’s equally unhealthy and debilitating,” Thompson says. From Hollywood’s illusion factory, some unexpected reality 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z
Colette loved the naive pottery of her region. The childhood home of lauded author Colette is open to the public in this small French village 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z
“I wasn’t naive to how I would be perceived when I decided to choose to act,” Olsen says. Elizabeth Olsen: Sister Number Three Rises to the Top 2011-10-21T16:08:07Z
We are not naive enough to believe that this movie will change the world. Schnabel movie chronicles Mideast conflict 2010-09-02T16:23:00Z
To expect to find meaning at the end of the line is naive. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z
As he becomes increasingly flustered and angry, it's clear that his naive belief in hard work and honesty is simply laughable to this pair. Review: Mike Bartlett waves red flag with 'Bull' 2013-05-03T01:53:08Z
“I’m not saying let’s go burn everything down, but I am saying that it would be naive to think that it’s gonna get fixed internally.” Jarvis Cocker was one of the voices of Britpop. He’s still the voice for England’s disaffected who just want to dance. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z
It would be a hard-hearted reader who wouldn't want a happy ending for Amy and Farouz, but perhaps only a naive one would put faith in the possibility of such an outcome. Hostage Three by Nick Lake – review 2013-02-07T13:08:08Z
But as portrayed by Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s beautiful black and white film, he less terrible than just painfully naive to his lack of talent. Top 10 Cross-Dressing Movie Performances 2011-11-11T06:42:07Z
And then there was the drug issue, which I was somewhat naive about. The Rolling Stones at Villa Nellc?te 2010-05-14T23:36:00Z
He’s just the sort of magnetic figure to enchant a naive young woman like Peri, who writes in her journal, “I would love to change God. . . . Wouldn’t everyone in the world benefit from that?” Review | Elif Shafak’s new novel is so timely that it seems almost clairvoyant 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z
The regionalism of the houses, their response to the landscape, history and climate of Southern California, is at once their most powerful and most naive feature. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Why his Los Angeles houses deserve a closer look 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z
This author, normally seen as naive or untrained, is in fact very self-aware, and hence more like us. All Possible Humanities Dissertations Considered as Single Tweets 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z
Then there’s this alleged message, “What are you doing at 2am?” which is succeeded by the naive query, “Does he like me or just want sex?” Does he like me? 2012-10-11T00:00:00Z
"I wasn't wholly naive," says Jackson, whose American wife and young daughter are now settling in. Napoleon-proof your home: convert a Martello tower 2010-12-20T21:31:01Z
I was young and naive at the time, but I bet millions have felt the same, and some live in states where their votes collectively could have changed an electoral college outcome. On Ice Cube, Donald Trump, and the question of what my vote is really worth 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z
"I'd be naive to pretend I didn't have a famous surname. Ultimately everybody's got to do the work on their own. " Cambridge spies play pleases critics 2014-04-04T12:15:58Z
However naive the dramaturgy or child-like the humour, Vick respects it and never tries to impose an extra veneer of sophistication. Mittwoch aus Licht 2012-08-23T00:44:22Z
Pike’s whole performance is like that: naive and anxious. Jack Reacher: Tom Cruise Picks the Wrong Week for a Thriller About a Mass Killing 2012-12-18T14:00:44Z
But it’s naive in a #YesAllWomen world to deny the implicit sexism of the discourse here. Male critics on female bodies: Tara Erraught, Liza Minnelli and intelligent reviewing
The questions Venturi asked in 1966 were hopeful and intentionally naive, in keeping with the tone of the book, which he labeled a "gentle manifesto." Race, violence in Ferguson, Mo., cop killing play out on Main Street 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z
For me, their pre-eminence was simply a naive childhood fact, the way a kid just knows his ma is the beautifullest lady in the whole wide world. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I am not a good baseball fan. I am a Yankees fan. 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z
We were so naive and it was really a good thing. Tom Petty relaunches "Torpedoes" in documentary 2010-08-11T21:13:00Z
And, I just think that people are sometimes naive about the prejudices and positions and attitudes of their time, and don’t realize how much all of these things are subject to flux. Andrew Solomon: “The conditions I’ve written about have been brutally stigmatized” 2012-11-24T22:00:00Z
But the whole performance is a great example of her screen presence in a nutshell: naive, sweet, beguiling and irresistible. 5 most memorable Marilyn Monroe performances 2012-08-02T21:03:09Z
I was full of artistic passion, but hopelessly naive about the business. Emily Woof 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z
Marley and AJ are Londoners, clever and studying to better themselves, but young and naive enough to assume that their knowing, 21st-century ease with paid-for sex will never trouble them intellectually. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2012-08-04T23:06:05Z
There’s no point in being naive – affairs happen and long relationships are guaranteed to come up against obstacles. My husband left me for another woman – but now wants me back | Dear Mariella 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z
It may sound naive, but I hadn’t really thought about how that would work. A feminist's guide to raising boys 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z
"We were naive about that. For the first two years, the bar was empty." St John's five rules for success: 'No music, no art, no garnishes, no flowers, no service charge' 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z
“Teenagers’ actual behaviors,” she writes, “do not seem very significant in terms of shaping the sense parents have that their own teens are young, immature, and naive.” Sex? Not my kid! 2012-08-12T01:00:00Z
She was never naive about the humiliation and condescension that young women endure, but now as a mother of her own little girl, she can’t shake the imminent possibility of retaliation. Review | Elizabeth Wetmore’s ‘Valentine’ is a thrilling debut that deserves your attention 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z
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