Sentences with word «naively»

But visiting West Virginia was an eye - opening experience for me, in part because, like many Americans, I'd naively assumed that coal had gone out with top hats and corsets.

As the days progress and his daughter continues to naively ask personal questions, Yuichi begins to see Mike, who is clearly grieving, as a complete person instead of a stereotype and to examine his relationship with his brother before and after he came out.

I naively assumed they were perfectionists, or worse, were exaggerating: Pah!

I was so new to the world of writing and publishing that I naively believed this company would turn my book into the next best seller.

On the first day of his transition from captor to captive, Revere Falk stood barefoot on a starlit lawn at 4 a.m., still naively confident of his place among those who asked the questions and hoarded the secrets.

i naively believed that im been safe and near hay house.

The Audi TT never registered on my radar of desirable cars back in my teenage lusting - after - sportscars days, perhaps because I naively thought of it as a front - wheel drive - based faux sportscar.

Popped my collar, rolled up my sleeves and naively didn't expect fireworks.

Probably, because like many of our readers we remain naively optimistic whenever a sporty new car appears.

I naively asked.

Despite their rhetoric, not only are most of Connecticut's charter schools actually increasing racial isolation, they are naively or knowingly overlooking key factors in their ongoing claims that they provide better educational outcomes.

This does not mean we think the SEA has no role in education reform, much less that we naively yearn to trust everything to «local control.»

But now that I am in high school, my peers accept my differences, and I accept theirs, because what it truly means to be «gifted» is not something that can be measured with standardized tests, as the school system naively believes.

Recently, I moved back to the classroom after stints in middle leadership, naively thinking it would be easier to balance my work with other commitments.

But let's not try to apply these tools naively or without intention.

Common Core objectives are naively devised for students without disabilities.

In it, I demonstrated that one could use modern data and easily reproduce EEOS - type correlations that, if interpreted naively, suggest that families matter and that schools and neighborhoods do not.

Not being a teacher, I had naively supposed that schools were dedicated to building character, establishing moral foundations, instilling basic values.

Since Dad was a distinguished physician, I naively assumed we would be viewed as an asset to the community, whose economic status probably ranked a notch above solidly middle class.

Naively, we said «Okay.

I will admit that I have generally kept myself distant from the political economy of our work, naively assuming that a proven, cost - effective technical solution is the answer.

They say having to focus on generic skills and content curriculum is confusing for teachers; that it encourages a «tick the box» approach to teaching; and, perhaps most naively, that the generic skills are simply educational «fads» that suck precious teaching time.

So is naively opening the doors to any provider.

He's living with Jill (Goldie Hawn), a wide - eyed and rather simple creature who naively believes she has him to herself.

Of course, hobbit Bilbo (Martin Freeman)-- the naively innocent character at the heart of the story — keeps a steady and honorable course even in the midst of a strong group of dwarves.

Naively, Doc follows the lead of troubled ex-girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston), nosing his way into a conspiracy involving «Chinatown» - like land grabs, a coke - addled dentist (Martin Short, dazzling) and a shadowy consortium called the Golden Fang.

His accomplices are Rocky (Jane Levy), a young mother who wants to give her daughter a better life in California, and Alex (Dylan Minnette), a smart youngster who naively pines after Rocky.

Bravely (and naively) he challenges the home team to a high stakes game where the champions will win the right to the contested land.

Maybe I'm being naively optimistic but after the ridiculous amount of money Black Panther made, haven't they proven that they're good investments?

Laura Wells (Laura Dern) is a lawyer vainly trying to help her client Fuller (Jared Harris), a power lineman who suffered a calamitous fall but naively signed away his rights to sue.

However, he meets his match the day that a trio of innocent orphans selling cookies door - to - door naively rings the bell.

VERA DRAKE (2004): The incomparable Mike Leigh directs Imelda Staunton in her brilliant performance as a pure - of - heart who clandestinely and somewhat naively terminates unwanted pregnancies, never quite acknowledging to herself that what she?s doing is against the law.

Grown in a lab, Morgan is as genderless as the keyboard I'm typing upon but those who've spent their formative years with it — including Rose Leslie's overly - empathetic behaviorist Amy Menser, Toby Jones» paternal mad scientist Dr. Simon Ziegler and Chris Sullivan's naively gentle technician — recognize her gender, identity and emotions as genuine.

Brother Lorenzo (Bardem, The Sea Inside) is among Goya's allies in the Inquisition clergy, coming to his defense, but naively urges them to step up their methods on cracking down on those they deem to be against their faith.

One naively romantic DJ (Chris O'Dowd) makes the mistake of bringing a wife, Elenore, on board (Mad Men's January Jones), he's in for some short - lived heartbreak.

Fourteen of the most prominent print critics from the Puget Sound area have voted on the best in the film year, perhaps naively believing that movies should be seen on the big screen anyway.

S # x Acts (Unrated) Coming - of - age drama, set in Jaffa, about an ostracized teen (Sivan Levy) who naively tries to elevate her social status by sleeping with the most popular guys at her new high school.

It's like a Terry Gilliam fantasy directed by Zhang Yimou and reimagined by a child, with the fears and fantasies that mingle through the film becoming almost naively direct reflections of their respective emotional lives.

Perhaps it would be naively optimistic to hope for more from the first major studio movie about a gay teenager coming out, a significant milestone.

Narrated by Leslie Nielsen, the story unfolds in post 9/11 Afghanistan where we find Michael naively accepting $ 10 million in financing for his next project, «Fascist America,» from a trio of Taliban terrorists.

Unaware that the place is a front for a brutal crime family trafficking in contraband and sex slaves, Anna is naively duped by the proprietor's affable overtures into leaving the incriminating diary with him for safekeeping.

Oh, that's right, it's because of movies like «Grandma's Boy» that naively associate the digital pastime with smoking weed 24/7.

Dawn naively thinks Manglehorn's devotion to his cat is evidence that he's a caring man.

Not only would I have loved to hear from celebrity fans David Lynch and Sofia Coppola (who paid homage to the title sequence in Lost in Translation), but an account of the battle Kubrick and producer James Harris waged with the Catholic Legion of Decency would've made for incredibly compelling material, while a scholarly discussion of Lolita the novel might've thrown new light on this adaptation, so often naively dismissed as a sanitization of the source material.

But there is also the purposeful re-imagining of an Ireland untouched by the garish obscenities brought about by the violent oppression of British rule and Ford, perhaps naively, paints a picture of a lovingly tolerant community with no divisions or hints at political unrest, except maybe that which occurs between a husband and wife.

Mr Harvey (Stanley Tucci), an anonymous middle - aged neighbour who's lingering there, invites her into the «clubhouse» he happens to have dug beneath the rotting corn husks and she naively steps into it.

The picture reminds us that that there's plenty of blame to spread around for the mess we're in, given that so many Republican and military leaders were naively willing to rubber stamp the White House's ever overly optimistic of the state of affairs over there.

The children's lives are full of freedom - naively running around, exploring the open spaces, begging for money to buy ice - cream, being naughty, being inquisitive, being kids with no limits.

Seth Rogen as the naively loving, slightly disconnected husband and Sarah Silverman as the strangely wise alcoholic sister - in - law both fill their supporting roles effectively.

Naively I'd like to believe that since Hoult is not pure Hollywood, and has spent so much of his life at home in England not absorbing the f-cking bullsh-t that surrounds you in LA, he's less driven by ME than some of his peers.