| In any case, now a couple weeks later I'm nothing like the commercial real estate naif I was then. |
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| The internationally renowned French painter is a master of the naif tradition and one of the most popular artists working today. |
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| The naif became the world's most famous exponent of bohemian life and, of course, a star in Parisian gay society. |
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| Thus do an insecure, reclusive dictator and an insecure, impulsive foreign affairs naif hold the peace of the world in their hands. |
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| What were nothing more than the words of a teenage naif at a press conference soon turned into a media-generated pseudo-duel. |
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| Most Americans, if they thought about her at all, considered her a naif who had chosen the wrong side and paid, tragically, with her life. |
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| He's no naif, living in a fantasy world, but an adroit political player, using an image of weirdness to protect him. |
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| It is also a thing of beauty, with typography that's clever without being tricksy, saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings. |
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| Fraser moves convincingly from his zealous naif to more steely operator convincing himself of his mission's objectives. |
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| Any innocent product that becomes suddenly genocidal in the hands of a tyrant has been designed by a dangerous naif. |
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| The ascent of naif spells the death of reform and human rights in Saudi Arabia. |
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| But she is no naif, and there is, after all, a journalist to charm. |
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| He is younger than even me, but he's hardly a naif about global events. |
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| For example, consider a client who has shown interest in naif prints. |
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| She can go from naif to minx in 60 seconds and seduce us at every stage. |
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| For three and a half decades, naif oversaw the ministry of the interior, which brutally repressed liberals and dissidents. |
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| Saudi newspapers demanded an investigation, but it was naif who ordered an end to all editorials on the subject. |
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| A canny teen-age combination of naif and faux naif arrives in the metropolis, declares himself a visionary, bad-mouths everyone, and produces perverse images that attract a fanatical following among the stylish. |
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| Step forward Dave Eggers, whose novel The Circle is a vivid account of what happens when a digital naif enters the force field of an organisation that is a mash-up of Google and Facebook. |
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| Accused of being a revolutionary, or at best a naif, Bernstein never recovered from the damage this did to his reputation. Mr Seldes argues that this was unfair. |
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| Mr Peyrelevade was no naif when it came to the world of banking. |
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| The court earlier heard alleged victim Mohammed Naif Al Falah had all of his belongings, including his identity card and passport, stolen by his capturers. |
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