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You're too naive.
Get rid of those kinds of naive ideas.
It's naive of you to believe that.
They were too naive to understand the necessity of studying.
Marie is a naive student.
When she first saw the size of it, my naive girlfriend was blown away.
Stop slagging off my brilliant idea, it's not naive at all!
In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
Tom can't be that naive.
I was naive.
He was naive.
Mary told Tom that she had met a time traveler at the bar, but he thought that she was just being naive.
He's a bit naive.
She's a bit naive.
Movie subtitles
Don't be naive.
How naive do you think I am?
The belief in evil spirits, sorcery and witchcraft is the result of naive notions about the mystery of the universe.
In this old naive drawing, a sorcerer and a witch are casting spells, setting a village on fire.
But You're Young And Naive, And It's A Lot Trickier Than You Think.
He's as naive as a child.
There's something so simple and naive about all this that I suspect there's been a shrewd guiding intelligence somewhere.
It is not so naive, sir!
You know that you're quite naive, daddy.
I was rather naive.
My doctor always told me that I'm be as naive as a child.
How naive you are!
I admire hope. You're naive.
But as long as they're naive and blind to the truth, they're bound to lose!
You're very naive if you think I trust people.
You must take me for a dolt, ignorant of life, naive and silly.
We're not naive, pal.
He's as naive as a child. Close that door.
Men are naive.
Isn't she naive?
I was always naive about women.
Don't be so naive, Inspector.
Don't be so naive, Mr. Holmes.
If you people think a gambler like Brant. is going to turn the entire evening's proceeds over to charity. you're being very naive.
That scene was added, and I think that scene is so important to understand Allison's mind-set moving forward, because you see her as this, you know, this sort of sweet, naive girl, and then something massive happens. And then it's, you know.
HE is a nice, timid chap, not that young but much too naive.
I dug up an old, distinguished and naive royalist. to serve as my guinea pig.
Oh, Lady Margaret. You are naive.
Bill's so naive about a lot of things.
You're so naive, you Americans.
Don't be so naive.
How can I ruin the life of a naive man like you?
He's simple and naive.
News and current affairs
Naive extrapolation of rapid growth led many people to imagine an ever-brighter future for these economies - and, thanks to them, for the rest of the world as well.
Blix, naive and relatively ignorant about technical details -- his field is international law -- is easily mislead.
It would be naive to assume that this mindset, which has become more deeply rooted in the PLA than anywhere else in Chinese society, is a thing of the past.
Many critics said that it would result in the exploitation of naive investors.
It would be naive, of course, to believe that religious or political extremists are interested in an exchange of views.
Is it naive to believe that the world amounts to more than zero-sum thinking?
This is a fully coherent viewpoint, but naive in its unqualified confidence (for example, in the polemical writings of the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman).
Europe's demands - ostensibly aimed at ensuring that Greece can service its foreign debt - are petulant, naive, and fundamentally self-destructive.
At the other extreme is a naive, utopian, and moralistic stance that is equally dishonest.
Kant's second type is the moral politician, who rejects cynical pragmatism but does not succumb to naive moralising.
He is not naive, and knows that patience, compromise, and a policy of small steps are often needed.
They were sometimes naive, as when Spencer hoped that rich citizens would nearly automatically be good citizens and thus find it natural to help those who were not so successful.
John Paul II might have been naive, too, but only up to a point.
Central bankers today are no longer so naive, and the public is better informed.
Nine countries already have nuclear weapons, and it would be naive to presume that others, particularly in regions of conflict, will not try to get hold of them.
Recent US diplomacy has seemed amateurish and naive.
The Iran nuclear deal refuted the widespread but naive assumption that geopolitics can drive oil prices in only one direction.
It may be that leaders and their staffs were naive in believing that their communications were really secure.
Europe is certainly not naive about the nature of the Iranian regime.
Unfortunately, that is not how monetary policy works: QE will not be enough, and no one should be naive about that.
Of course, one must not be naive.
So, here - in a spirit of supreme, but perhaps not totally naive, optimism - are the 2015 New Year's resolutions that I would most like each of East Asia's leaders to make.
That idea of an ethical approach to the Greek crisis might sound absurd to readers of the financial press, and many politicians will undoubtedly consider it naive.