Barack Obama embraced this consensus during the campaign, only to be called a naif and an appeaser. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Fein: It's Not Good Luck, It's Consensus] Reference
It gets tiresome to do the google work for a 'naif'. From Wordnik.com. [White House Attacks Hillary Campaign] Reference
'You must understand, Yuji is in many ways a naif. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
In a while I'll probably drop this faux naif persona. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatic Theater] Reference
He's never held office, but is hardly a political naif. From Wordnik.com. [Who'll Have The Last Laugh?] Reference
Manderò i miei migliori auguri e meno naif a Don domani. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
On me prend pour un imbecile naif!! (pléonasme) Pffff. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
Please accept these remarks as being from a naif on economics. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Re-read this thread, you arrogant naif and first class bonehead!. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
Even when the 1960s arrived, Reisman claimed she was still a naif. From Wordnik.com. [not too new, but interesting] Reference
(The outcry always seemed like so much TMZ faux-naif positioning.). From Wordnik.com. [The Week in Music: Ashlee Perseveres; What Is a Tokyo Police Club? Blind Melon Album Raises Ontological Questions] Reference
"What if I film my way out of here?" he asks in a faux-naif voice-over. From Wordnik.com. ['Kit Kittredge'] Reference
A naif blessed with the perspective of innocence has a clearer perception. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
But the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is no naif. From Wordnik.com. [Too Soon to Swoon] Reference
KEN TUCKER: What I liked about it was that he was a very sophisticated naif. From Wordnik.com. [A Tribute To Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous] Reference
You want to marry a naif who has no grip on what turns her on in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Susie Bright: The Straight Man's Guide to Lousy Sex] Reference
She revels in playing the faux-naif, unaware of the basic branches of government. From Wordnik.com. [Kathy Griffin's 'My Life on the D-List' trip to Washington falls flat on humor] Reference
Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)] Reference
The narrative voice is simplified Ellison—the scientist as naif and curmudgeon at once. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
Kahlo (190754) was a faux-naif surrealist who specialized in confessional self-portraits. From Wordnik.com. [Frida On Our Minds] Reference
We've got this naif narrating and giving an apologia pro vita sua after the death of his guru. From Wordnik.com. [Getting It On] Reference
Plotz is a naif wandering in a strange land full of eccentric people and incomprehensible rules. From Wordnik.com. [The Good, the Bad, the Bible] Reference
Panetta, the intelligence naif, is not armpit deep in government (let alone intelligence) contracting. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Naif: If You Think Panetta's Wrong For CIA, You Might Be Part Of The Problem] Reference
There's a faux-naif air about her persona that belies a scalpel-sharp wit, with plenty of smart lines. From Wordnik.com. [Sara Pascoe vs Her Ego; Mark Watson: Do I Know You?; Gary Delaney: Purist; Laura Solon: The Owl of Steven] Reference
Finn--I'm not sure we want to go there, but, being the naif that I am, curiosity has got the better of me. From Wordnik.com. [There's something I like about L.A.] Reference
The remark, they said, showed Dean was a naif and a wuss who accepted the inevitability of military decline. From Wordnik.com. [A Long Shadow] Reference
So she's a clueless foreign policy naif anti-choice evangelical who faces an ongoing corruption investigation. From Wordnik.com. [Art Levine: Sarah Palin: The New Harriet Miers -- or Dan Quayle in Drag?] Reference
If I thought you were real I'd almost be pleased that there is still one gaga-level media-naif left in America. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
But they aren't policy statements and if Obama ever thought they were he's even more of a naif than we suspected. From Wordnik.com. ["Everybody's talking about change now."] Reference
Don't you know that Obama is a total naif, and this is just one part of the Hillary-Bill plan to RULE THE WORLD?????!?!. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Agrees To James Steinberg As Her Deputy At State] Reference
In Silverglate's concluding chapter, "For Whom the Bell Tolls," the answer is obvious even to a naif: "It tolls for all.". From Wordnik.com. [How the Feds Imprison the Innocent] Reference
And didn't he get a huge round of applause, with people with tears in their eyes at the talent of this young as was naif?. From Wordnik.com. [Britain Really Has Got Talent] Reference
Journalists wait years for opportunities to get at populist hate figures and this naif served himself up on a silver platter. From Wordnik.com. [Brunstrom was WRONG] Reference
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If Aiken were an opera character, he'd be Wagner's Parsifal: the naif "made wise by compassion" and armored in his own innocence. From Wordnik.com. [DUET OF THE DIVAS] Reference
And people once upon a time thought that it might be OK if Obama was a naif, because he could surround himself with experienced hands. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Adviser Apologizes For Calling Hillary A "Monster"] Reference
In the midst of all this struggle was Henri Rousseau, the real and only naif of this time, and certainly among the truest of all times. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
I don't know if Clegg is a fool or a power hungry naif but it's hard to see what can be gained by the Lib Dems as they willingly engage in. From Wordnik.com. [Liberal Democrats: A year of living dangerously | Editorial] Reference
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