Example Sentences

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It includes unbreakable-ness and vulnerability and naiveness and bravery and stubbornness and maturity.

From Salon • May 26, 2022

It is swinging London seen and idealized by a "variety" Frenchman, so there’s a blend of opportunism and naiveness that makes the result unique.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2011

I think the naiveness of being young and not knowing any better, and all the stupid mistakes that came with that, that’s what got me to this point.

From Washington Post

Again, Knutson commented that he envied Wallace his "naiveness."

From Time Magazine Archive

She was amazed to find that on this night, in this place, there could be no adequate answer to the searching naiveness of that question.

From The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Conrad, Joseph