And some of her early excesses were more a result of naivety and bad advice from boofheads like Oldfield than anything else. |
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We may be inexperienced but naivety is not a characteristic we possess in abundance. |
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Your editorial last week showed a naivety bordering on crass stupidity when you argued that smoking in pubs should be a matter of choice. |
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The most striking characteristic of this debate about morality and politics is its naivety. |
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His naivety was so deep that he was able to create a paradise of enchanted magic. |
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The charge that supermarkets are motivated by the desire to generate enormous profits points to a naivety about the business world. |
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I wouldn't really want to speculate on the level of naivety or lack of naivety. |
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But anything more general just smacks, to me, of a naivety about the historical construction of the nation-state. |
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It is a gross naivety on the part of the Government to presume that the impact of this measure will not increase student debt. |
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To some people, this will seem an unwarranted naivety about the power of free speech in civil society to weed out cultural oppression. |
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The account has a particular directness, a delightful naivety, and an enormous sense of authenticity. |
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My naivety about property prices is such that I thought I'd discovered a new bit of London. |
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Unfortunately, he is a compulsive liar whose naivety and innocence allows him to get away with the most convoluted stories. |
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Scottish lawyers are concerned at skiers' naivety as they head off for their winter sun. |
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He described his own school days as magical and full of innocence and naivety. |
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What's laughable is not the former dictator's skivvies, but military leaders' naivety about the media world we now live in. |
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Let's not give the impression that we are entering into this with dewy-eyed naivety. |
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In her naivety, she thought he would always be that untamable boy with no desire to settle down and make a commitment. |
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Still, although he certainly has a voice, the literary cost of his boyish naivety is that he is somewhat empty as a character. |
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I missed the excited talk of last year where our eagerness and innocent naivety overruled our sense of logic and sensibility. |
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The young woman and the old woman between them illustrate the chasms between hope and disillusionment, between naivety and experience. |
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The works, intentionally filled with corrections, are heavy-handedly drawn and messily painted with the naivety of a beginning art student. |
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If it were solely a matter of the site blooper, then the error might be put down to dumbness and naivety. |
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He was a bluff, domineering character who exuded confidence though politically he often showed signs of naivety. |
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He made a strategic error and was at best guilty of political naivety, at worst of incompetence. |
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Yet Niebuhr also spent much of his life inveighing against the naivety of liberalism, as in his most famous book, Moral Man and Immoral Society. |
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They could all play and sing really well but had a naivety and willingness to learn and improve. |
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I certainly understood her dislike of her classmates and her annoyance at their naivety. |
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And Ayesha, with her curious mix of rabid work ethic and kooky naivety, looks right at home here. |
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And here, he offers offers some geopolitical naivety and moral equivalency that simply boggles the mind. |
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So when she said that she decided to stay on as there was important work to do afterwards, I grinned at the splendid naivety of her egotism. |
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Such naivety was perhaps to be expected of a newly industrial America actuated by evangelical religion and optimistic crusades for social reform. |
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Yet, this technological naivety finally does not matter, for the dystopians' purpose is moral and political. |
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There are extenuating circumstances, her ignorance, her naivety, her youth, and another's scheming and deception. |
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When he started as Labour leader the cartoonists saw him as Bambi, referring to that smiley expression as well as implying a certain naivety. |
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My naivety in what I was dealing with got me out of a huge amount of difficulty. |
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From the child marveling before nature's beauty, Gilles had kept the simplicity and naivety so characteristic of childhood. |
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He had a taste for popular decorative devices, such as fruit, flowers, and brocades, which resulted in a curious and engaging blend of naivety and sophistication. |
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The Forrest Gump, from-the-mouths-of-babes device depends on naivety guilelessly begetting wisdom. |
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The Book of Mormon musical mocked the do-gooding naivety of its young missionary protagonists. |
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Raptly intense love poetry, free of naivety but immune to cynicism, has returned. |
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It is exactly there that Europe has to find its place lucidly, without naivety. |
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We believe there was substantial overcharging... and they were taking advantage of my client's naivety. |
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His life was marked by episodes of naivety mixed with craftiness: the students would take advantage for their amusement and he joined in the fun. |
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There was always a dose of naivety to their zeal, not to mention clunking racial tokenism. |
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Côte d'Ivoire, despite having some good individuals, came unstuck due to excessive naivety. |
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My questions only reflect your self-doubt and my naivete is only the veil of your own naivety. |
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If you believe that literally, you've got naivety out the bazoo. |
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In my infinite naivety and itsy-bitsy experience, I like squirrels. |
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Lapalux Moments Wavering digitalised vocals, faux naivety and spaced-out bass lend this track some serious atmosphere. |
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Symbol of childhood and naivety, the adularia protects loving relations and brings the reconciliation of the lovers. |
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He is an affable character, who likes to laugh and joke with the press, and who feigns tactical naivety. |
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The parliamentary party demonstrated its naivety when it returned in boisterous mood after the general election, having gained more than 30 seats. |
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I loved the very air of innocence and naivety that this place held. |
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At 19, one of his greatest strengths is his naivety, his lack of fear. |
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I wanted to show the very fine line between innocence, naivety and denial. |
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There's a certain naivety to the world with us, and also a feeling that we are kind of in our own little world where the rules are slightly different. |
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They held their discipline, were running hard in the last few minutes and, despite a few careless errors and some touches of naivety, were never dull. |
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Escaping to Italy, she sets her sights on the newly married Robert Windermere, whose wife Meg is about to turn 21 and is still charming with the naivety and idealism of youth. |
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Most students are first-time house hunters and unfortunately there are landlords who will exploit their naivety. |
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So, if anything, the remarks betrayed nothing much other than Lehmann's naivety and his tendency to say stupid things. |
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Having gone through similar situations in my community, I know this can leave room for naivety or dreaming. |
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However, it is above all the naivety of European politicians which allows Russia to play such games. |
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This is something that continues to puzzle me about the naivety of the NDP position. |
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Young women are potential victims for traffickers, who exploit their youth, naivety and frequent lack of education. |
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The task of creating a framework for a revitalized transatlantic relationship remains and must be carried out without naivety or ambiguity. |
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So, against my better judgment and riddled with naivety, I said yes. |
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Please forgive my naivety and my inexperience, but I'm trying! |
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The traveling doctor Dulcamara takes advantage of Nemorino's naivety and sells him a bottle of Bordeaux wine claiming that it is a love potion. |
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But where the natural, innocent naivety of children collides with the open and often unrestricted nature of the virtual world, then their safety is always going to be called into question. |
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It should not be a mechanism through which a parent can override the child's decision unless there is a real risk the child does not appreciate the consequences of the decision or the child's naivety is being exploited. |
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Despite his naivety, he soon discovers the actual nature of his employer's business and becomes aware of the role of man of straw he has been hired to play. |
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Service clubbers are anything but trendy. Intellectuals criticize them for their naivety in sticking to a positive attitude in the face of negative realities. |
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The aggressive pathos and power of Picasso's Minotaurs are countered by a somewhat doddering peaceableness and demonstrative naivety. |
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It was a revolution grounded in exoterics, which may account in some part for the general air of naivety and improvision which surrounds it. |
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Yet the concern is that the pragmatism may be only skin-deep. Mr Abe's scribblings published since he came to office betray an almost wilful naivety. |
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Mr Kurlansky deftly describes the sheer haphazardness of much of 1968: not the horribly serious events in Vietnam but the naivety and disorganisation of so many of the war's critics. |
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To cyber security experts, the naivety of this statement beggars belief. |
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He was an idealist without naivety, a compromiser without being compromised. |
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His naivety in much of this beggers belief, because the money that he defrauded was going straight into the hands of the chatline companies. |
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I was the most beautiful and the strongest tree in the forest and now you have come, my beauty has paled with the weight of your questions and my strength is weakened by your naivety. |
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Meanwhile, in real life, Salvador also switched niftily between his own A and B-sides, combining general fun, naivety and 'bonhomie' with a crafty sense of cunning and solid business sense. |
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Heroism and malevolence, naivety and treachery, strategic genius and heavy defeats, conquests and resistance alternate and intertwine in the course of nearly three decades. |
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It also cast light on the apparent naivety of the missing teacher. |
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The charlatans, like the fake apothecaries, often counted on the naivety of their entourage and misused it whereas they had neither diploma, nor often, experience. |
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Finally, the vindictiveness and naivety of the resolution in hoping that excluding Yugoslavia from the recovery programmes will aid stability and development is quite striking. |
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Felicity Jones catches Morland's mix of youthful naivety, heart-whole feelings and mindful beliefs perfectly and J. J. Feild, as the dishy but sensible Tilney, grows in appeal as this feature-length drama builds to a climax. |
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It's an exercise we must do, in order to justify a proposal that overcoming fears of naivety and pedantry, lays a reasonable base for a focused and realist discussion on these challenges. |
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The round face, with lightly surprised eyes, knocks by its trust and this quite babyish naivety, while giving an impression of stylishness and extreme refinement. |
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Being convinced of one's own perfection is not a case of naivety, and does not form an integral part of one's personality: it is pure vanity and presents itself as something which is dubious, a fabrication, and chimerical. |
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I cannot understand the naivety of many of the tabled amendments. |
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Their words are tinted with both naivety and clear-headedness. |
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Through doziness or naivety, Bell took it upon himself to act as the umpire. |
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The attackers mainly count on their victims' naivety and ignorance, and their favoured targets are bank accounts and social website user accounts. |
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He was pursuing his mission without naivety, however, since he was aware that for each step forward, another could sometimes be taken in the opposite direction. |
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