Sentences with phrase «naivete toward»

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

Not exact matches

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.

We have no alternative today to working through criticism toward a second naivete because the first naivete available to us in our culture is so deeply idolatrous.