naif

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It’s something of a wonder to watch Sweeney as she undertakes Sister Cecilia’s journey, transforming from a meek naïf into something unexpected and wild, her pious discipline falling away with every indignity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024

One of the greatest tragedies of the Messenger is a hypothetical left unfulfilled: What could someone who wasn’t a complete naïf have done with a $50 million investment in a media company?

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2024

Efron embodies all of these contradictions in his performance as Kevin, a naïf who becomes too familiar with life’s cruelties.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Echoing Gish’s most well-known role, as the victimized naïf in D.W.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023

In writing this letter Ben Râana had shown a naïf sort of conceit in his own broad-mindedness, which would have been rather comic if it had not been pathetic.

From A Soldier of the Legion by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)