Sentences with phrase «own naivete»

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.

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

The upside to my youthful naivete was that I was strongheaded enough to think I could do it.

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

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

My body of research canvassed all the women I have seen in my life who are Mexican, or whom my naivete and racial insensitivity suggested were Mexican, so they might not all technically be Mexican, but for all intents and purposes, I will consider them to be daughters of Mexico.

These highly placed, public figures do all sorts of praising of the non-existent PC brand until the firecracker bursts in their faces and they then plead ignorance or naivete.

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.

They were trying to rescue the credibility of hope from the indulgence of naivete.

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

To sum it up: From the view of the Christian Church the following is to say: The intention, to rebuild the Temple, is pure naivete.

How like the subtle Demiurge to have planted them in the Amazonian rain forest, knowing that when in due time they were found they might, thanks to the naivete of the eaters, contribute to the prevailing complexity and confusion in the world, and thus insure the continuing force of that initial unspeakable happening.

Pardon my naivete, but this is an outrage.

It is here that the realism of socialists and the naivete of democratic capitalists become apparent.

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.

Such naivete».

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

When George Weigel concedes his naivete over the possibility of a «Catholic moment» in America and concludes that the West no longer understands freedom, or when Robert George solemnly declares to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast the end of «comfortable» Christianity, then you know that the times they are a-changin».

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.

That's post-critical naivete.

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.

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.

Post-critical naivete is the ability to hear the Christmas stories once again as true stories, even though you're pretty sure that Jesus was born in Nazareth and not in Bethlehem, even as you're pretty sure that the magic star and the wise men themselves come from an exegesis of Isaiah 60, rather than reflecting historical memory.

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.

So what's post-critical naivete?

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»!

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.

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.

Problems related to ignorance and naivete: Lack of knowledge of sexual anatomy and techniques of intercourse can contribute to lessening the mutual enjoyment of sex.

Put differently, these other dimensions would be freed of their naivete and possible one - sidedness when rooted in a systematic examination of propositions.

It's naivete.

At this time Niebuhr was driven into the mild socialism of the «Social Gospel,» but he soon began to do battle against what he called its naivete (its lack of understanding of the depths of sin in individual and society).

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.

If so, your naivete / ignorance amuses me.

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.

But Birek's innocence and naivete become an embarrassment: London's literati decide that he is not much of a writer after all.

The extreme naivete of Christians comes through when they confidently assert that their higher Power is Jesus Christ.

This permits a «second naivete,» a postcritical equivalent to precritical fusion, a return to the powerful immediacy of symbols — but all this on the basis of distance, on the basis of criticism and demythologization.38

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.»

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.

But the sense of naivete and unreality, and also of danger, are enhanced when we End Naess stating that by benign means global population should be reduced to one hundred million people!

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.

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.

«For the second immediacy that we seek and the second naivete that we await are no longer accessible to us anywhere else than in a hermeneutics; we can believe only by interpreting.

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.