But that is a naive interpretation.

But this is naive.

So as a naive New Zealander I thought, well I'll go to the Pentagon.

Would you like that to happen to your sister, bearded men?

He wanted to give up the dangerous kind of science and keep the good bits. Now, that's absurdly naive for two reasons.

There is a naïve sense in the US that if bad things are known, they will be stopped.

A trivial example is this Newton found the law of gravity, which goes like one over the square of the distance between the things gravitated.

And yet, despite all of the preparation, a night of closed door negotiations led to a stunningly elementary error.

But in other areas, such as trade, employment, or industrial policies, prevailing thinking is either naïve or non existent.

The First World War and the 1920 s shattered any naïve belief in pure free trade.

The US has already followed a strategy of militarization in the Middle East in the naïve hope that such an approach can ensure secure energy supplies.

Words like cockroach, delusional, derp, dope, fool, knave, mendacious idiot, and zombie have no place in civilized debate.

It is naive beyond description to think that having blocked this source of financial collapse, you have blocked all possible sources of financial collapse.

True, Syria and Iran are playing a major role in supporting Iraqi insurgents, and Syria is still encouraging the trafficking of jihadists and weapons across its borders with Iraq. But the idea that these activities can be halted at will is naïve.

And at the very core of this crisis of mine, I felt somehow the life of music had chosen me, where somehow, perhaps possibly in a very naive sense, I felt what Skid Row really needed was somebody like Paul Farmer and not another classical musician playing on Bunker Hill.

Indeed, the Cypriot authorities have been engaged in ongoing discussions with the troika for the past year. And yet, despite all of the preparation, a night of closed door negotiations led to a stunningly elementary error.