naive

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 ''.

This seems naive.

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.

Therefore a naive algorithm to calculate the estimated variance is given by the following:

While this loss of precision may be tolerable and viewed as a minor flaw of Algorithm I, it is easy to find data that reveal a major flaw in the naive algorithm: Take the sample to be ( 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 4, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 7, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 13, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 16 ).

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

The naive algorithm is:

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.