Sentences with phrase «for naivete»

I could beat myself up for my naivete, or I could simply accept the facts that I was in good company and that, thankfully, my advice change soon after that.

Not exact matches

He can only regain credibility if he abandons such public naivete, said Steve Sestanovich, a senior fellow for Russian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former State Department official.

My body of research canvassed all the women I have seen in my life who are Mexican, or whom my naivete and racial insensitivity suggested were Mexican, so they might not all technically be Mexican, but for all intents and purposes, I will consider them to be daughters of Mexico.

And in my misguided naivete, I also didn't have a problem with smoothing out earnings (positive) hiccups which could be used for a rainy day.

Maybe it is my own naivete, but for some reason, I can not imagine someone nailing 95 knock - knock jokes on the door of the Wittenberg Church and it having an introspective impact.

Pre-critical naivete is that early childhood stage in which we take it for granted that whatever the significant authority figures in our lives tell us to be true, is indeed true.

Third statement: A major need within the church today, for ourselves, and those we teach and those we talk to is (and the sentence contains some semi-technical language that can sound jargony, but it's illuminating, so stay with me): to help people move from pre-critical naivete, through critical thinking, to post-critical naivety.

My favorite shorthand way of speaking about what post-critical naivete is with a single line from a Native American storyteller, which I quote in a footnote at the end of Chapter 1 of Meeting Jesus Again for The First Time, so you may be familiar with it.

For the most part, secular commentators in the press and academy have shown themselves to be well out of their depth even when addressing their own religious traditions, and the political naivete displayed by religious commentators has only reinforced Burke's famous dictum that «politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.»

Ricoeur there proposes a philosophical analysis of symbolic and metaphoric language intended to help us reach a «second naivete» before such texts.17 The latter phrase, which Ricoeur has made famous, suggests that the «first naivete,» an unquestioned dwelling in a world of symbol, which presumably came naturally to men and women in one - possibility cultures to which the symbols in question were indigenous, is no longer possible for us.

«For the second immediacy that we seek and the second naivete that we await are no longer accessible to us anywhere else than in a hermeneutics; we can believe only by interpreting.

(As for Mustafi's place, the sad reality is that there really aren't any better options available, and his presence, along with a general naivete in our defensive set - up as a whole, pretty much ensure that our Europa campaign will end the minute we encounter a team of any real quality.)

I can only assume your credulity regarding Tristram Hunt's political ideology and personal motivations for being a career politician on the Right wing of Labour, are faux naivete, George.

But the naivete and gullibility do not end there, for Pearce missed the truly fascinating part of the whole story.

«I long for a little naivete, but there's none around,» the highly cynical filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder remarked in an interview in the 1970s; a comparable sentiment apparently goaded Thomas into making this willfully innocent movie.

For, Nenette exhibits the same dogged determination as Bruce Dern in the former film, as well the endearing naivete which enabled Audrey Tautou's title character's ability to touch the hearts of everyone she encountered in the latter.

Like Forrest, Benjamin has an endearing naivete about him, and he also yearns for an elusive love interest (Cate Blanchett).

Peele seems more than comfortable taking his time building the story and the relationships of Get Out, working to establish the naivete of Rose and her family, their assumptions about race relations so far from the real world, their good intentions not counting for all that much to a man who deals with prejudice day in and day out.

In a fit of political naivete, the Gates Foundation actually gave money to the teacher unions in the belief that they could secure support from the unions for Common Core.

Rather, I think the reluctance to contribute is due to hubris, impatience to focus on implementation, political naivete, and disdain for what they see as mean - spirited carping.

Rather, I think the reluctance to contribute [to a debate in support of Common Core] is due to hubris, impatience to focus on implementation, political naivete, and disdain for what they see as mean - spirited carping....

But some of us have been warning of the political naivete of the Common Core effort for some time now.

If the reader is on the lookout for everything that could possibly be seen as a red flag, Linda's role in not seeking help for Leo would likely seem more like a failure to seek help for a child who is being abused rather than simple naivete.

Correa remarks: «Though much of my recent work has utilized print making techniques, I don't have any training or expertise in printmaking; what I like about it is it's physicality (I print by hand) and I like to think that my naivete allows for some diy ingenuity, or wrongness in printmaking can make rightness in painting... I've got a group of paintings made by painting on wine bottles and then wrapping and wringing canvas over them, and another group is made by painting through a blank silk screen, the screen clogs as I go, making it's own marks until its no longer useful.

There is a qualitative difference which, in my opinion, argues very strongly for pervasive naivete and dishonesty on the denialist side.

I've dealt in the stock market for many years where naivete is punished.

I am maybe showing my naivete, but every step here described by Willis seems like it can be re-started as a term in an overall equation, and all the terms (steps) together then make for one overall equation.

Maybe we'll meet, and I'll have a chance to laugh at you for your simple - minded naivete.

Renewable energy scientists looking at the trials and tribulations of climate scientists are sympathetic but also a little annoyed at the naivete - we've had to put up with this B.S. for decades, and now the climate scientists are whining because it is happening to them - but where were you when it was happening to us?

One might think the circumstance of the orbital forcing would have implications for hypothesis A's validity, but perhaps this is down to my naivete.

But the naivete and gullibility do not end there, for Pearce missed the truly fascinating part of the whole story.