Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(1)
Sure, the thought of picking up my violin each day no longer filled me with the naive joy that it had when I was younger, but one day I'd make my debut in Carnegie Hall, and everyone would rise to their feet to applaud, and that "champagne moment," as my father calls it, would compensate for the happiness I'd sacrificed in the years leading up to it.
Similar(59)
I say this not for sympathy or pity, but to note that people with nothing can possess joy, never naive enough to believe that future sorrows would not befall them, but ever hopeful for a more generous future.
Writing in The Nation, Hughes described Wesker as "a naive lyrical poet full of joy and an analytical realist – in the collision of the poet and the analyst lies his suffering".
The kids in the Qatar team - Vartan, Talal, Tina, Fatima and Ayesha - are a joy, both incredibly clever and very naive.
Is it naive to wonder why we never see Nina experience the joy of movement?
Call me naive but I would like to imagine Magic Johnson staying on for the sheer joy of it and Michael Jordan just to break a few records.
And the action follows the induction of the naive 13-year-old hero, who works on a shoe stall, into the joys of selling, sex, ecstasy, Essex banter, and life at large.
Naive eh?
So naive.
"Love, love, love and joy, joy, joy.
How naive I was.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com