He shows no greater political insight than we should expect from his position ; but relates what he had seen and heard with a naïve vivacity which compels attention.

Examples from English are the diaeresis in naïve and Noël, which show that the vowel with the diaeresis mark is pronounced separately from the preceding vowel ; the acute and grave accents, which can indicate that a final vowel is to be pronounced, as in saké and poetic breathèd, and the cedilla under the " c " in the borrowed French word façade, which shows it is pronounced rather than.

Piaget proposed a developmental theory of moral reasoning in which children progress from a naïve understanding of morality based on behavior and outcomes to a more advanced understanding based on intentions.

Cecil Hepworth used the opposite effect in The Indian Chief and the Seidlitz Powder ( 1901 ), in which a naïve Red Indian eats a lot of the fizzy stomach medicine, causing his stomach to expand vastly.

He is sarcastic, intuitive, and clever, given to witticisms and light flirtations ( which Catherine is not always able to understand or reciprocate in kind ), but he also has a sympathetic nature ( he is a good brother to Eleanor ), which leads him to take a liking to Catherine's naïve straightforward sincerity.

She is honest and kind, although she can sometimes be slightly over-trusting and naïve, which leads the Duke family into trouble on a number of occasions.

He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming ( Gautier ); the prankish but innocent waif ( Banville, Verlaine, Willette ); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death ( Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson ); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul ( Richepin, Beardsley ); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart, or murders her in frustration ( Margueritte ); the cynical and misogynous dandy, sometimes dressed in black ( Huysmans / Hennique, Laforgue ); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art ( Giraud, Willette, Ensor ); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption ( Richepin, Wedekind ); the madcap master of chaos ( the Hanlon-Lees ); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun ( the English pier Pierrots )— and various combinations of these.

The ' 50s theme extends to the typically verbose dialogue of his human characters which is often bubbly, over-enthusiastic, and naïve.

The remainder were sold to immigrants at cost, which was done to prevent speculators from preying on the naïve newcomers.

Shklovskij ’ s formulations negate or cancel out the existence / possibility of “ real ’ perception: variously, by ( 1 ) the familiar Formalist denial of a link between literature and life, connoting their status as non-communicating vessels, ( 2 ) always, as if compulsively, referring to a real experience in terms of empty, dead, and automatized repetition and recognition, and ( 3 ) implicitly locating real perception at an unspecifiable temporally anterior and spatially other place, at a mythic “ first time ” of naïve experience, the loss of which to automatization is to be restored by aesthetic perceptual fullness.

This was a period in which the Victorian era was sometimes ridiculed as being naïve and backward.

Elizabeth Spelke, one of the psychologists who founded the naïve physics movement, identified the continuity principle, which conveys an understanding that objects exist continuously in time and space.

There is another way of using smallest size of beads which is naïve and locally it is merely called “ Motikaari ” ( Urdu word for beadwork ).

In his most politically impassioned ( or naïve ) maneuver, Lewis ran for Pennsylvania governor in 1914 on a straight Progressive platform, a dalliance which forced his resignation from the deanship but took him no closer to the governor ’ s mansion.

Later, a new source of criticism came from Occultist movements such as the Theosophical Society, a competing new religion, which saw the Spiritist explanations as too simple or even naïve.

The term naïve art is often seen as outsider art which is without a formal ( or little ) training or degree.

There also exist the terms " naïvism " and " primitivism " which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art ( like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee ).

After the success of Squee !, the children's cable network Nickelodeon approached Vasquez about producing an animated television series, Invader Zim which airs on Nicktoons currently, focused on the daily life of Zim, a naïve alien from the planet Irk who tries to conquer Earth, before his attempts are constantly thwarted in a humorous manner by Dib, a young paranormal investigator and the only one ( along with his sister Gaz ) who knows with certainty Zim is an alien ( although no one believes him ), or by his own naïveté.

Whalen has noted that modern premillennialism is “ criticized roundly for naïve scholarship which confuses the poetic and inspirational prose of prophecy with fortune telling ,” though “ Premillennialists retort that they merely follow the Word of God, regardless of ridicule .” He then notes that, nevertheless, “ the virtual theology which surrounds premillennialism is today stronger and more widely spread than at any time in history .”

The St. Petersburg paradox is a classical situation where a naïve decision criterion ( which takes only the expected value into account ) would recommend a course of action that no ( real ) rational person would be willing to take.

His lifelong friend and colleague Oskar Adler, who fled the Nazis in 1938, wrote afterwards that Schmidt was never a Nazi and never anti-semitic but was extremely naïve about politics.

Riefenstahl continued to maintain she was fascinated by the National Socialists but politically naïve and ignorant about any war crimes.

It avoids the strict alternation of a naïve turn-taking algorithm, and was one of the first mutual exclusion algorithms to be invented.

This thesis was accepted by Karl Popper, leading him to reject naïve falsification in favor of ' survival of the fittest ', or most falsifiable, of scientific theories.

The film was met with a mixed response upon its initial release, with many critics praising its technical achievements while deriding its simplistic and naïve storyline.

Actually, he was about as naïve as General Motors.

It was quite different from how we have come to know Tintin, the style being very naïve and simple, even childish, compared to the later stories.

She was repeatedly depicted as the stereotypical naïve blonde damsel in distress.

Within the naïve logic that Curry was working on, the method for proving a conditional sentence is to assume that the hypothesis ( A ) is true, and then prove from that assumption that the conclusion ( B ) is true.

Genji couldn't reject this offer because of his affection for Fujitsubo, but Onna san no miya was so young that she turned out to be too naïve, and he was very disappointed and had many regrets.

Decadence was the name given, originally by Ron Wiggins, to a number of late nineteenth-century writers who valued artifice over the earlier Romantics ' naïve view of nature.

The first deterministic primality test significantly faster than the naïve methods was the cyclotomy test ; its runtime can be proven to be O (( log n )< sup > c log log log n </ sup >), where n is the number to test for primality and c is a constant independent of n. Many further improvements were made, but none could be proven to have polynomial running time.

While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art.

The bishop was easygoing ; his friend the archdeacon was elderly, tippling, and still appreciative of attractive women ; and the bishop's chaplain was naïve and accident-prone.

Her enthusiasm was so naïve and genuine that the fact that she was praising her own voice seemed to us all to be right and proper.

Very young when she was married, shy and naïve, Elizabeth Alexeievna was ill-prepared for her new position.

In fact, the root mean square ( rms ) errors are much better than these upper bounds, being only O ( ε √ log N ) for Cooley – Tukey and O ( ε √ N ) for the naïve DFT ( Schatzman, 1996 ).

Mattie, while talented, is naïve and apparently somewhat unstable ; she has an apparent electra complex and declares that she will only refer to Urquhart as ' Daddy ', a word that later figures prominently in Urquhart's painful flashbacks of her.

Once a rarely occurring spontaneous phenomena ( research in 1944 showed only 76 cases ), became " an artifact of bad ( or naïve ) psychotherapy " as patients capable of dissociating were accidentally encouraged to express their symptoms by " overly fascinated " therapists.

As naïve CD8 < sup >+</ sup > T cells have no true bias towards foreign sources, these T cells must rely on the activation of CD28 for confirmation that they recognise a foreign antigen ( as CD80 / CD86 is only expressed by active APC's ).

He believed that it was naïve to expect to find a single Papuan or Australian language family when New Guinea and Australia had been a single landmass for most of their human history, having been separated by the Torres Strait only 8000 years ago, and that a deep reconstruction would likely include languages from both.

During the standing ovation that followed, Farage was the only MEP to remain seated and went on to describe the Prince's advisers as " naïve and foolish at best.

If only a quarter of these ring in to the studio, that is 6 calls, more than enough to dumbfound a naïve audience.

" He impresses upon the naïve young man that the only rules that matter are, " What a man can do, and what a man can't do.

" Münsterberg believes that these early vocational counselors point towards the spirit of the modern tendency toward applied psychology, and that the goal can only be reached through exact, scientific, experimental research, " and that the mere naïve methods -- for instance, the filling-out of questionnaires which may be quite useful in the first approach -- cannot be sufficient for a real, persistent furtherance of economic life and of the masses who seek their vocations.

* The Universal Language: A man welcomes a naïve woman into his fraudulent language-learning course, in which he only speaks the invented language Unamunda ; however, he confesses to the deception as he begins to fall in love with her.

is badly weakened by a poorly constructed plot, which depends for its strength upon assumptions that are not only naïve but absurd.

Townsend ’ s Spanish-Kaqchikel Bible never circulated widely even in Guatemala, and despite his enthusiasm for linguistics, the field would remember him as only “ a devoted but linguistically naïve missionary .”

Such naïve libraries usually contain only antibodies with low affinity to the desired antigen, making it necessary to apply affinity maturation by random mutagenesis as an additional step.

She reassures the naïve Fess that he need not be like his father, only to be himself, which will make him stronger.