naif

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Her persona is part space alien, part naïf of some Baltic backwater.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025

It’s a classic hero’s journey as the young naïf leaves home and learns the harsh truth about the world.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 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

When the former heel of “The View” broached the topic near the top of her new podcast’s third episode the naïf in me wondered if he’d answered those questions.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2023

With every artist it is even so; The artist, after all, is a Pierrot— A Pierrot of the minute, naïf, clever, But Art is back of him, She lives for ever!

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various