Naivete
Usage examples for naivete:
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On
returning
from
this
walk
the
rector
was
joyful
as
a
child;
he
foresaw,
with
the
naivete
of
a
poet,
the
prosperity
of
his
dear
village-
for
a
poet
is
a
man,
is
he
not?
"The Village Rector", Honore de Balzac.
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She
next
bewitched
all
by
the
delicate
naivete
and
sparkling
espieglerie,
interchanged
with
true
love
pathos,
of
her
duet
with
Belletti,
from
Rossini's
I
Turchi
in
Italia,
the
music
being
in
the
same
voice
with
that
of
his
'Barber
of
Seville.
"The-Life-of-Phineas-T-Barnum", Benton, Joel.
-
In
a
postscript
to
this
letter,
eloquent
by
its
very
naivete
Sebastiano
says
that
he
sees
no
reason
for
Michelangelo's
coming
to
Rome,
except
it
be
to
look
after
his
house,
which
is
going
to
ruin,
and
the
workshop
tumbling
to
pieces.
"The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti", John Addington Symonds.