Sentences with word «naivete»

Further, the political naivete of warmists does real harm to the broader progressive agenda.

British director Andrew Douglas (2005's Amityville Horror remake) takes a clever look at youthful naivete in this strikingly inventive thriller, which is based on a true story.

Instead the focus is strictly on the tense ground - level situation, exacerbated by language barriers and most of the pirates» unhelpful naivete about how things can and should go.

Hardly, but to Jesus fidelity to God was no excuse for naivete.

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

As Chuck, Peter Sarsgaard does his best to match her intelligent naivete with predatory charisma.

Frustration is enough, if it's abetted by naivete, wishful thinking and, perhaps crucially, indiscipline.

And yet an unflagging trust in the divine promise of social fulfillment is, even from the point of view of «practicality,» the only attitude that can adequately respond to our «impossible» dilemma of utopian naivete on the one hand or cynicism on the other.

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.

Fassbender and Weisz are customarily nuanced and splendid, while Vikander is simply wonderful, making Isabel's arc from youthful naivete to world - weary grief feel as authentic as material this emotionally manipulative possibly could.

Yes, they should, even if one wishes they would go more in the spirit of Paul Ricoeur's second naivete — the simplicity that lies on the far side of complexity.

And if you're one of those writers who gets this smug expression on your face because you just can't help it in the face of such naivete, join the ranks.

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.

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.

Sorry, but it is naive to assume naivete on their parts.

Surviving as an entrepreneur requires unbridled passion, enthusiasm and a certain naivete in the face of many unknowns.

«I blame myself on a lot of this, in not hiring more experienced people, but it wasn't any maliciousness beyond just naivete.»

The double deception of suppressed personality and repressed sexuality could have been the basis for a rewarding character study, but after Albert meets a kindred spirit and dares to dream of a happy ending, her denial and naivete become too much to swallow.

It can be due to naivete not stupidity.

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.

It was reams and reams of political blather and pure naivete dressed up as science, including Al Gore's pontifications (with documentation of multiple errors on his part), but far from trying to reign that in James Hansen and other scientists seemed to egg it on.

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.»

, I am content with my few random sales, my few random reviews, and my few minute royalty checks, all earned with what must now be considered naivete, rather than honesty.

Cheadle's had the good fortune to work with some genuine modern auteurs, and the films he's made with P.T. Anderson and Steven Soderbergh have allowed Cheadle enough breathing room to craft small but enjoyable characters: bullheaded ex-con Maurice Miller in Out of Sight, the brief glimpses of Basher Tarr in the Ocean's Eleven series, and especially Buck Swope in Boogie Nights, in which Cheadle was able to convey so much of character's sadness and naivete through subtle through just his eyes.

One thing I find difficult about books set in the past is that many characters» naivete seems unrealistic.

His youthful exuberance playing opposite her world weary ways is the obvious note to play but coupling that with a genuinely touching chemistry where his excitement and naivete play off of her equal curiosity and warmth is where the film shines.

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.

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.

Fisher's enmity was directed sharply at variable annuities, whose salespeople, he says, take advantage of consumers» annuity naivete.

It turns away from Hallmark naivete, yes, but then cultivates the gritty irony of the urban dweller.

And they benefited intellectually from an attenuation of the previous era's paternalism and naivete toward colonized peoples.

What a terrible illusion Western society has labored under — what colossal naivete about «conquering nature»!

The confidence that they will not, it is to be feared, is based on little more than sentimental naivete and the unseemly hubris of our assumed moral superiority to «them.»

The assumption that women are not really related to other women, the absence of understanding men in relationship to women, the refusal to acknowledge the homo - relational basis of heteroreality, the ignorance of connectedness with nature all attest to the relational naivete of hetero - reality in comparison with a worldview based upon internal relations.

Your wonderful naivete tickles me Bernardo.

Instead of advancing storytelling toward greater self - awareness (and self - examination), a 3 - D spectacular like Avatar relies on the same naivete of once neo-genre movies like The Time Machine, Dances with Wolves, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, and Rapa Nui, which took a nostalgic, unsophisticated view of industry and colonial expansion; this time Cameron pretends to introduce modernity and globalization to his naive audience.

In this sense, faith must begin to come to terms with indissoluble paradoxes: the strength found in apparent weakness; the leadership that is possible from the margins of societyâ $ ¦ the immanence and the transcendence of Godâ $ ¦ In what Paul Ricoeur has called a second or willed naivete, persons of the Conjunctive stage manifest a readiness to enter into the rich dwellings of meaning that true symbols, ritual, and myth offer.

Such a reenchantment of nature, one that avoids naivete, has been undertaken to some extent by process theology and by Jürgen Moltmann and creation - centered theology.

One recurring criticism of the bishops is their alleged naivete both in thinking that «community» is possible in a liberal society and assuming that America has something like a common moral language.

In writing of the second day of creation, Bonhoeffer rejects its «ancient world picture in all its scientific naivete.

And challenges to it are usually ignored as reactionary naivete.

Unlike the others, who grasp at hope with the desperate naivete of goldfish in a shark tank, Canseco recognizes reality.

its all the referees, bad luck, bad schedule, zee naivete and zee lack of discipline.