Naiveté

At last, my veil of naiveté lifted, and I understood that I was face-to-face with an undercover conversion therapist who was now collecting my $40 co-pay.

The number of first-time lawmakers could be a momentary shock to the system due to ideological rigidity, giddy naiveté and a general lack of understanding of the processes.

But Pope Francis is not operating out of naiveté.

I think that perhaps being away from Puerto Rico for a while, you can fall into this naiveté of idealizing your home.

The utopians — culturally, linguistically and historically ignorant of the countries they occupied — believed in their naiveté that they could implant democracy in places like Baghdad and see it emanate out across the Middle East.

In the first movie, he was this innocent ball of naiveté, who was willing to go out into the summer sun because he didn’t know any better.

I see people without a drop of naiveté saying that there will always be rape and there will always be poverty.

She’s trying, and maybe that obviously, it’s naiveté, and it’s her vulnerability that’s showing.

Faith in their ability to smell a rat and do the right thing when the truth is revealed, or the pain of their former stupidity/naiveté gets too great, will in the end prove the Democrats undoing.

It requires a kind of strength of character that is rare to find and even rarer to maintain in a world where niceness and naiveté are considered one and the same.

The simple feeling we have that time passes by, or flows—borne of a fluke, naiveté, and limitations— precisely what time is for us.

Anne Varichon, p. 224. In Japan black can also symbolize experience, as opposed to white, which symbolizes naiveté.

He became good friends with Harry Kim from the start and at times displayed protectiveness in the face of Harry's customary naiveté.