naiveté
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This is the part where the Journal’s premier footy scribes Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg giggle at my stateside naiveté.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
“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
But Dougal’s naiveté does not preclude a sly sense of humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 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
His naïveté and intellectual stubbornness also led Lilla to believe, as late as 2016, that the Bushes and the Clintons would continue to be the dynasts of their respective parties.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
He’s divided his characters along an axis of naïveté.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Lili and Guy passed the group, clinging to their son so that in his childhood naïveté he wouldn’t accidentally glance at the wrong person and be called an insolent child.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
Allow me the arrogance, or the naivete, to believe them.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
But this is not, I believe, simply willful naivete, Erwin.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 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
Because she wasn’t from a professional family, she brought a kind of naivete to school with her.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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