Sentences with phrase «naivete which»

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.

It became stabilized, so to speak, very early and therefore displays a spontaneity, charm, and naivete which contrast sharply with the preceding story.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

There is a sense in which the objectivity of the scriptural text in its unchanging wording can be appealed to as a corrective against the most highly fanciful flights of redefinition, but it would be part of the naivete against which the Apostle warns us if we were to take that objectivity as a guarantee.

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.

Between the naivete of uncritical fusion with the horizon of one's own heritage and the sundering of that unity by the distance of objectification lies a moment of negativity which can be variously described as suspicion, alienation, doubt, detachment, temptation, or death.

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.

Our «first naivete» is surely the condition of being in some sense «called,» but unable to distinguish the authentic message from the reality - apprehensions of our culture or from the dogmatic and ecclesiastical framework in which we hear it.

there're also many sequences of dreams which would remind you of that famous french movie «amelie» which celebrates the magnitude of dreams as the poise of naivete is mighty enough to redeem misery and reverse catastrophes, at least within your mind.

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.

The third act is the most profound volume of Joy's narrative: It's not just simply persuading people to buy the commodity, but it's learning to outsmart the competition and thwart fraud, and discovering ways to shed her weakness (which Russell illustrates when Joy cuts her hair as literal view of the metaphor) and discard her naivete in order to navigate trade deals.

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.

Such naivete explains why the Obama Administration has continually promoted case studies of reform - minded school leaders working closely with NEA and AFT locals, why Class Struggle author Steve Brill floated the laughable idea of Weingarten becoming chancellor of New York City's traditional district three years ago, and why organizations such as Educators4Excellence and Teach Plus — which represent younger, reform - minded teachers who now make up the majority of NEA and AFT rank - and - filers (and are staffed by teachers who are themselves centrist and progressive Democrats)-- work so hard to aim to lead reform from within union ranks.

Hans is alternately seduced and instructed by Chuck's particular brand of naivete and chutzpah — by his ability to hold fast to a sense of American and human possibility in which Hans has come to lose faith.

(I notice in the WJW comment thread someone opines along the lines of «Oh, that's like EULA boilerplate and it would probably not be enforceable in court,» which I think is a really charming example of naivete, not in the least because, as I suspected, the boilerplate also specifies (in section 10.1) that disputes between Kindle Direct users and Amazon will be settled through arbitration rather than the courts.)

I wrote an article analyzing the problem of this sort of attack on an artist, which I dare say is much more dangerous and divisive than the painting itself, which, I agree, is probably most guilty of naivete.

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