naivete

• Vincen and Mireio are charming in their naivete, they are unspoiled and unreflecting. —  Frederic Mistral
• In life, his father had insisted on delivering pithy pronouncements regarding David's shortcomings -- naivete, unworthy goals, and sentimentality, among others. —  F ;SF - vol 100 issue 04 - April 2001
• Apart from its fresh naivete, and its rare pictorial charm, how trivial and merely anecdotic does the conception of Titian appear by the side of that of Bellini, so lofty, so consoling in its serene beauty, in the solemnity of its sunset colour! —  The Earlier Work of Titian
• We're not drooling lemmings, mindlessly bleating about the loss of a superstar through his naivete - in other words, we're not stupid, and we don't particularly enjoy being called stupid on a website whose cache is seventh-grade-level tit-and-dick jokes made by alleged grown-ups. —  Deadspin
• The baby bottle is our naivete, our religious faith in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, Reverend Al, Al Gore, Amy Goodman, Jesse Jackson or Cindy Sheehan. —  no snow here

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