naiveté

Sampson exudes the type of combination of optimism and naïvete endemic to a man who grew up wealthy.

“Please,” my line companion crowed at a fellow sista’s naivete.

He’s self-satisfied and loves to have people fawn over him, but his star is still nascent enough for Oliver to retain some naivete.

They include elitism, paternalism, authoritarianism, naivete, excessive and misplaced respect for the “best and brightest,” isolation from the concerns of ordinary people, an inflated sense of superiority over ordinary people, disdain for popular values, fear of popular rule, confusion of factual and moral expertise, and meritocratic hubris.

For far too long, the United States has treated the Muslim Brotherhood with a dangerous combination of naiveté and willful blindness.