Both Uses
naive
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- It was the mission of boot camp to quickly convert recruits' naive boyish fervor into something American society had never generated before: a mass-produced, numerically immense cadre of warrior-specialists at once technically sophisticated and emotionally impervious to the horrors of battle.†
Chpt 3. *
- Clearly, this youngest and most naive flagraiser—he was still only twenty-one in 1946—had assumed that his "hero" mantle was a kind of appointment for life, complete with compensation.†
Chpt 17.
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)