naiveté
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She published her first professional writings jointly with Jules Sandeau, a law student whose youth, naiveté and intellectual precocity won the author’s affection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Bailey has a wide-eyed clueless cuteness that lends to her character’s well-meaning naiveté — even her missteps have a way of working out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
For other colleagues, Moshiri’s optimism could also be read as naiveté.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Call it naiveté or just plain stupidity, but I showed up to my first day of class overconfident.
From Salon ● May 25, 2025
“They probably were. Our childish naiveté saved us.”
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
Simplicity is a discipline, not naïveté: Buffett avoided complexity not because he lacked skill, but because he recognized its dangers.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
It’s as if the film wants to consider the climactic confrontation of good and evil in “The Return of the King” through the goofy naïveté of “Paddington.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
My naïveté springs from the eternal hope brought to us by the Christmas season.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2024
Before delving into the breathtaking naïveté and incompetence of the Messenger’s management, it’s worth foregrounding the wreckage those leaders have left in the wake of their mindless experiment.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2024
In spite of her terrifying frankness and overwhelming naïveté, he really knew nothing about her and he was tired of living with an enigma.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Allow me the arrogance, or the naivete, to believe them.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
"There is no naivete on the part of the opposition delegation," the source said, adding that it "must take advantage of this window of opportunity."
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
He and Ms. Wilde work off each other brilliantly, his naivete getting crushed by her sophistication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Pondering the American way of aging, Schiller initially adopts a posture of ignorance and naivete so extreme that it seems like a pose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The ice had been broken by Shin’s naivete.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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