All 9 Uses
naive
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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- What was screaming in fact was the naive idealism of her love trying to banish all contradictions, banish the duality of body and soul, banish perhaps even time.†
Chpt 2
- Alain was so naive and sincere as to try to give the gallery owner's daughter an honest answer.†
Chpt 3 *
- And again she pictured Tomas as if he were one of her paintings: Don Juan in the foreground, a specious stage-set by a naive painter, and through a crack in the setTristan.†
Chpt 3
- Waking up was sheer delight for him: he always showed a naive and simple amazement at the discovery that he was back on earth; he was sincerely pleased.†
Chpt 4
- Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.†
Chpt 4
- How naive they had been, thinking they were risking their lives for their country when in fact they were helping the Russian police.†
Chpt 4
- A man who chooses to be a politician, say, voluntarily makes the public his judge, with the naive assurance that he will gain its favor.†
Chpt 5
- It contained words of love for the Soviet Union, vows of fidelity to the Communist Party; it condemned the intelligentsia, which wanted to push the country into civil war; and, above all, it denounced the editors of the writers' weekly (with special emphasis on the tall, stooped editor; Tomas had never met him, though he knew his name and had seen pictures of him), who had consciously distorted his article and used it for their own devices, turning it into a call for counterrevolution: too cowardly to write such an article themselves, they had hid behind a naive doctor.†
Chpt 5
- Tomas was delighted to see him (naively so, as we delight in unexpected events), but what he saw in his former colleague's eyes (before S. had a chance to pull himself together) was a look of none-too-pleasant surprise.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(naive) lacking experience or sophistication, and the understanding that comes from them -- often too trusting or optimistic
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)