naiveté
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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
“The regime’s naiveté was to believe missile programs could make up for the lack of a capable air force,” said Saeid Golkar, an Iran expert at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
In his hands, the naiveté of a given era’s technology becomes poignant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
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
The combination of Mr. Black’s barely controlled craziness and Mr. Rudd’s cheerful gosh-darn naïveté makes the picture work, though the gags are uneven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Teaming up with counterculture rabble-rouser Jerry Rubin, Lennon and Ono speak of peace and love with a naïveté that is both poignant and inspiring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
My naïveté springs from the eternal hope brought to us by the Christmas season.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2024
Adèle sang the canzonette tunefully enough, and with the naïveté of her age.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
"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
I am not sure if this is evidence of maintaining standards and principles in a world swiftly doing away with both, or of spectacular naivete, but I’m not ready to give up on it.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2026
“I wanted to laugh with them and sometimes their naivete is funny and endearing. But I never wanted to ridicule them. Of course, it’s a very scary thing to try and do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025
And all three differ from self-conscious, relativistic, ironic, or postmodern styles, in which “the writer’s chief, if unstated, concern is to escape being convicted of philosophical naivete about his own enterprise.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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