" Christopher Norris declared that Orwell's " homespun empiricist outlook – his assumption that the truth was just there to be told in a straightforward common-sense way – now seems not merely naive but culpably self-deluding ".

As a pioneer of a self-reflexive sociology who prefigured Bourdieu's ability to factor in the effect of reflection on the societal object, Adorno realized that some criticism ( including deliberate disruption of his classes in the 1960s ) could never be answered in a dialogue between equals if, as he seems to have believed, what the naive ethnographer or sociologist thinks of a human essence is always changing over time.

The transcontinental wish seems to have been only naive conjecture on the part of those outside the project.

With the Cold War over, perhaps the Roddenberry optimism seems merely naive as headlines bring news of murderous divisions between Serbs and Muslims, Kurds and Turks, Israelis and Palestinians, Irish Catholics and Protestants, and so on across an increasingly depressing globe.

state that " whatever is the fact, to think that a dietary factor is valuable ( functional ) to the organism only when there was ‘ genetical adaptation ’ and hence a new dietary factor is dysfunctional per se because there was no evolutionary adaptation to it, such a panselectionist misreading of biological evolution seems to be inspired by a naive adaptationistic view of life.

Due to his impulsive and short-tempered behavior and stubborn and naive nature, Fred seems to be accident-prone.

She seems to be quite knowledgeable about many things, but is very naive when it comes to modern ideas.

She asks a lot of questions and seems relatively naive about the world.

Her roles often involved a naive or spaced-out character who seems to be unaware of whatever chaos is surrounding her, as exemplified in Airplane!

And in its essence, Crane's work demonstrates the marvelous precision and telling efficacy of a line so simple it seems naive.

She's really naive ( to the point that she seems dumb ) and polite but also very optimistic.

Not much is known but she seems very naive to relationships.

She seems to know a bit of everything but she is also gullible and naive.

`` Yeah, seems so, don't it '', the boy laughed, hugging her close.

This seems like an attitude favoring a sort of totalitarian bureaucracy which, under a President of the same stamp, would try to coerce an uncooperative Congress or Supreme Court.

His assumption seems to be that any such friends, being tolerable humans, must be more liberal than most Southerners and therefore at least partly in sympathy with his views.

From my wife's experience and other sources, this seems to be rarely encountered in educated circles.

There seems to be almost a conspiracy of silence veiling it.

It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.

Indeed, it seems that only in today's Southern fiction does Tobacco Road, with all the traditional trimmings of sowbelly and cornbread and mint juleps, continue to live -- but only as a weary, overexploited phantom.

Willard Thorp, in his new book, American Writing In The Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems: `` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched.

He seems, by some unconscious division of labor, to have given them that one function and no other, leaving communication to the rest of the face.

The primary quality of that view seems, now, to have been its quietness, but that cannot at the time have impressed us.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

Next to the old problem of the slowness of decision making, network structure seems to be paramount, and without monitoring no network has value.

He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

The socialism implicit in the slogan of the Roosevelt Revolution, freedom from want and fear, seems a far cry from the individualism of the First Amendment to the Constitution, or of the Jacksonian frontier.

The Commission seems to represent the viewpoint of what I would call the unconscious liberal, but not unconscious enough, to invoke the now taboo symbolism of socialism.

his tragedy seems unworthy and trivial.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

Every First Family seems to have one couple upon whom it relies for true friendship.

Feeling useless seems generally to be an unpleasant sensation.

But there is one in particular which, it seems to me, deserves special attention.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

In fact, I can only say this seems to me to follow from a wide, continuous, and properly guided exposure to literary art.

I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.

As the civic temper rises, the more naive citizens begin to play soldier -- but the guns are real.

The already faded pastel charms of the naive music itself vanish entirely in Fistoulari's melodramatic contrasts between ultravehement brute power and chilly, if suave, sentimentality.

As one of them expressed it, `` It has done me a world of good to listen to the naive questions and comments of these not-yet-married people.

Only 27% ( 11 subjects ) gave a positive Kohnstamm reaction when completely naive concerning the phenomenon.

Those who responded with an arm-elevation in the naive state did not change their reaction when told that there were some normal people who did not react in this fashion.

The positive Kohnstamm reactivity in Condition 1 ( ( the naive state ) is not adequately explained by such a concept as suggestibility ( if suggestibility is defined as the influence on behavior by verbal cues ).

A differential suggestibility would have to be invoked to explain the failure of this additional information to influence the Kohnstamm-positive reactors and yet attribute their naive Kohnstamm reactivity to suggestion.

The naive state, Condition 1,, could therefore be viewed as an inhibiting one for 24% of the subjects in this study.

This subject was one who gave an arm-elevation on the second trial in the naive state but not in the first.

One Kohnstamm-positive subject who had both arms rise while being tested in the naive condition described her subjective experience as follows: `` You feel they're going up and you're on a stage and it's not right for them to do so and then you think maybe that's what's supposed to happen ''.

Whatever the merits of its intent, Utopian communism is far too naive, far too crude, to suit any modern socialist or communist.

His sinuous melody is a sort of naive transcendence of all experience.

Pip's great expectations, his progress through illusion and disillusionment, turn, somewhat as they do for the naive hero of Dreiser's American Tragedy, upon the lure of genteel prosperity through unearned income -- what Wemmick calls `` portable property '' and what Jaggers reproaches Pip for letting `` slip through ( his ) fingers ''.

She was Mary Lou Brew then, wide-eyed, but not naive.

The suggestion is naive.

Alexander knew Spencer too well to think him naive or thick-skulled.

Again the estimated population variance of 30 is computed correctly by Algorithm II, but the naive algorithm now computes it as − 170. 66666666666666.

A slightly more accurate compensated version performs the full naive algorithm on the residuals.

... with regard to race, a naive version of the evolution of consciousness, a theory foundational to both Steiner's anthroposophy and Waldorf education, sometimes places one race below another in one or another dimension of development.

* Anne Egerman: Fredrik's new, naive wife.

Indeed, naive set theory might be said to be based on this notion.

* O. Thake: naive, accident-prone Old Etonian and man-about-town.