naiveté
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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
“Dance No More” has a few squawky synths that hint at an appealingly analog ’80s feel, but everything is rendered so immaculately that any sense of naiveté is quickly snuffed out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
The central figure is Renia, from Poland, played with innumerable nuances, as her character evolves from naiveté to ruthless opportunism, by the off-Broadway stalwart Marin Ireland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Call it naiveté or just plain stupidity, but I showed up to my first day of class overconfident.
From Salon ● May 25, 2025
It was either an amazing feat of stubbornness or naiveté, I thought, for someone who had seen so much death and suffering to still believe so unconditionally that everyone was as stand-up as he was.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Parker and Stone pivoted to “Team America: World Police,” a bomb-throwing comedy about our country’s napalm-strength combination of naïveté and swagger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
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
The combination of Mr. Black’s barely controlled craziness and Mr. Rudd’s cheerful gosh-darn naïveté makes the picture work, though the gags are uneven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 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
Just here, Franny, in apparent despair at the naïveté of the question, struck her forehead with her hand.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
"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
The story immediately struck a nerve among vocal gamblers who criticized Coppins’ sports-betting naivete and called the article a “hit piece.”
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
What a perfectly concise symbol of rampant hyper-consumerism meeting our new-age, tech-fueled naivete, and all in service of the ardent belief that this material-obsessed lifestyle is the correct one.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
Larson nodded knowingly, as if now convinced of my naivete.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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