Sentences with phrase «naivete with»

They mask their naivete with words like courtesy, civility, high mindedness, politeness.

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

It also garnered the attention of scam artists and fraudsters focused on taking advantage of their victims» naivete with regard to investing in cryptocurrencies.

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.

Again with the naivete, I thought if I visited my Dad in prison I'd be better, his repentance would soothe my problems away, but the the visit left me in absolute ruins.

Church and spiritual abuse is wrongly associated with things like weakness, gullibility, cults, naivete, and delayed development.

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.

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.

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.

With complete naivete they answer that that part of the revelation that they have encountered up till now is self - evident and reasonable, but the revelation in Christ that now touches them is narrow - minded and uncertain.

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.

But once we have acted in naivete it is too late and we often have to live with the consequences regardless.

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

But his fierce avowals carried with them a certain measure of naivete, as though the letter might have been written by someone out of touch with affairs.

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

(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.)

By default, and by naivete, Dr Sears became my only source, until I started to figure it out on my own (and with the help of the mother's circle and other inputs)

«That the Syracuse defendants needed to be persuaded by the former mayor of Syracuse to even get involved in a project that required state funding and bureaucratic red tape, and that they took on the Inner Harbor project not simply to generate revenue but to create jobs and stimulate the area's economy, go to the heart of their dealings with Howe - whom the evidence will show took criminal advantage of their naivete.»

You sign up with all the excitement and naivete of that new college grad, but over time you become disillusioned.

The 21 - year - old Irish - American actress doesn't hit a false emotional note, contrasting the naivete of her heroine's early days away from home with the self - assurance of an immigrant, who finally realises that she belongs.

As cool as it is to hang out with this cat, the film's prevailing takeaway becomes the naivete in thinking police corruption can ever truly be corralled.

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.

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.

Watch his timing in the yacht seduction scene, and the way his character plays with her naivete.

At the film's bursting heart is Minnie, played with wide eyes and a heady combination of maturity and naivete by Bel Powley.

In fact, Victoria's loyalty to Melbourne, combined with her political naivete, brings on her first crisis as queen: when Melbourne is defeated by Tory politician Sir Robert Peel, Victoria ignores the custom of replacing her Whig ladies - in - waiting with Tory women, and Peel resigns, returning Melbourne to office.

The naivete of the boys on screen clashes violently with the sorrow and regret of these men.

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.

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.

, 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.

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.

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?

My naivete sometimes still stuns me, because I can still think «of course the inquiries would ask sets of questions much like these» — it is also stunning how easily all the relevant inquiries and panels got away with dereliction of duty.

I have no quarrel with Dr. Curry's decision to bring this topic to our attention, although I'm worried that use of terms such as «wow» or «revolutionize» will turn out in retrospect to signify some naivete about a topic that has been thoroughly evaluated over many decades.

We're asked by Dr. Curry, again, to conduct the discussion of current events with an outlook and naivete from 30 + years ago.

(The one exception is the Ranchmen's Club in Calgary, who in a touching moment of honesty, or perhaps naivete, state that Monckton is being presented in «conjunction with the Friends of Science»).

My therapy grew out of the «try, try again» active therapy of the 1960s, with all its optimism and energy, experimentalism, creativity and naivete.

Not that I shouldn't have, but perhaps we both went in with a bit of naivete.