Naive in sentence

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I'm an idealist, perhaps in some ways naive.

Now, I'm not naive.

So we're going to immerse ourselves in the 72 percent of the planet because, you know, it's really naive to think that the Easter Bunny put all the resources on the continents.

Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate.

Interestingly, every pillar of this project that produced these results, when first proposed, was rejected by the foreign policy establishment as naive or unrealistic.

And it might sound impossible or naive to imagine that you could ever take that notion outside the high school auditorium.

Nuclear weapons are some of the most powerful tools of destruction on Earth, and it may seem naive to put faith in these straightforward protective measures.

Here we've got naive subjects praising the robot: Voice: Nice robot.

These are naive subjects.

We got a bunch of naive subjects in, we didn't tell them anything about the robot, sat them down in front of the robot and said, talk to the robot.

But that was naive.

Now, that's absurdly naive for two reasons.

Now, I'm not naive enough to suggest you never use your computer at night, I know I wouldn't abide by that.

Now as a geopolitical analyst, I do know that it's often considered naive to work with the UN.

That the sort of, I would say, naive dream that many of us had that technology is always going to be a force for good, keep going, don't stop, go as fast as you can and not pay attention to some of the consequences, that's actually just not an option.

So when I was contacted by the Parks Department about a $10,000 seed-grant initiative to help develop waterfront projects, I thought they were really well-meaning, but a bit naive.

So as a naive New Zealander I thought, well I'll go to the Pentagon.

In 1974, I was young, I was naive, and I was pretty lost in my world.

Was I naive or what?

Here is my naive advertising man's suggestion.

Now, here is another naive advertising man's question again.

In my defense, I'd say, as naive as this may sound, it's ultimately grounded in cynicism.

What was, for me, a very naive observation, turned out to be a disaster.

Okay, we're naive, we're bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

And they take advantage of the innocent, the naive, the grieving, the needy people out there.

And we use naive experts who may know nothing about the countries we're dealing with, but may know something about something else to try to inject new thinking into the problems that we try to address for our clients.

We bring in a whole new group of naive Harvard students and we say, "You know, we're doing a photography course, and we can do it one of two ways.

Perhaps it was considered a thoughtful sci-fi in its time (with psychological overtones), yet seen today the film is mildly overbaked and naive; it's a camp-fest tailor-made for TV's late-late show.

The maestro must have rolled in his grave when this bawdy travesty of his work was released with its needless frontal nudity and cheap copulating and its portrayal of the naive but principalled Gilda as a horny ditz.

I will give Rivette credit, however, for picturing a side of Joan left out by other movies: that of a petulant, naive, and narcissistic adolescent (played by a woman all too clearly at least twice the age of the character she is supposed to portray) obviously unable to understand her place within the movement she is helping to create or the world existing outside her own passions.

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