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naif

[nah-eef] / nɑˈif /


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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

Echoing Gish’s most well-known role, as the victimized naïf in D.W.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023

By the time the beautiful naïf delivers a defiant, brassy tribute to Doris Day in Friday’s episode, “Hit Me,” he succeeds, one might say courageously, in ruffling Hawk’s feathers, and by extension our own.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Here the local color was richer, the manners more naïf.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various




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