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Usage examples of naive.

From the day he saw with his own eyes what the British had done at Lexington and Concord, Adams failed to understand how anyone could have any misconception or naive hope about what to expect from the British.

That Adams was never known to be involved in such activity struck some as a sign of how naive and behind the times he was.

It was easy to deduce that this man must have been wholly insane, but that he probably had a streak of perverse outward logic which made the naive Akeley - already prepared for such things by his folklore studies - believe his tale.

Do you honestly think that they will cleave to an eighteen-year-old as raw as freshly killed meat, as green as grass, as naive as an Apulian goatherd?

It wanted her to sit again at a piano, somewhere, anywhere, with a lighted cigaret on the music-rack, and sing her husky, naive little songs.

But enough to sense the shape of Zoe Fisher, a clonal baby raised in the hothouse politics of twenty-second-century Earth, young, fragile, terribly naive.

In many ways he is the first of the new naives, a Douanier Rousseau of the sexual perversions.

If she published such a work, however, the scholars of Valles and Erdin would dismiss her text as a naive attempt to euhemerize myth.

In the collection he parodies some of the naive but popular futurological scenarios, while hypothesizing on ideas whose extravagance extends beyond the scope of contemporary scientific theories.

The naive frankness of the age, both when it gloried in the flesh and when it reproved sin, gives a full-blooded complexion to that time that is lacking now.

Chekhov and a didactic one like Gorki, one of those naive and nervous Russian intellectuals who thought that a little patience and kindness with the miserable, half savage, unfathomable Russian peasant would do the trick.

Operation Greenpalm, Miamians would still be under the naive impression that their city could pay its bills.

The laughter of Democritus may suggest that naive viewers are part of the world he mocks or that sophisticated viewers are mockers themselves as well as objects of mockery.

Now Molotov had to work hard to keep from laughing at the poor, naive Lizard.

In spite of this somewhat naive monochromy the narrative merit of her stories is so great that they quite justify her place as a classic in the Ukrainian tradition.