naif

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It’s something of a wonder to watch Sweeney as she undertakes Sister Cecilia’s journey, transforming from a meek naïf into something unexpected and wild, her pious discipline falling away with every indignity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 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

Farrell is the wounded, almost childlike naïf who doesn’t appreciate his surroundings.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023

There was still left one of the three supreme Homeric qualities—the very quality which no one ever supposed could be secured for our literature, or, indeed, for any other—Homer’s quality of naïf wonder. 

From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore