Similarly, Kenneth Koch's almost as famous "Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams" reproduces only a shade too ingenuously the "I'm a poet and you're not" ingenuousness of the original: I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer.
On what grounds can you presume to judge the appropriate progress of democracy in Egypt, when you regrettably take such an ingenuously culturalist perspective?
Lots of people are less ingenuously looking at the Onion to entertain themselves.
The institutions have names that may seem ingenuously descriptive (such as the Expediency Council, which resolves disputes between the majlis and the Council of Guardians) or positively Orwellian: don't expect the 86 members of the Assembly of Experts, who choose the supreme leader, to know anything about law, art, physics, medicine or in fact anything except religion.
Even as a private document, the "Prelude"—that vast autobiographical epic from which these lines are drawn is ingenuously selective in its analysis of what made the youthful poet tick.
Wisely, he doesn't publicise his private clients' outlays, but if your neighbour across the street is a house by Gaudi probably you don't stint.When we first met, your correspondent, whose knowledge of ironwork could be forged into the head of a pin, ingenuously asked whether an artist blacksmith such as Mr Normandale could make a decent living.
Its leaders argue, ingenuously, that the "compulsory Germanising" of foreigners born in Germany is authoritarian.
A Republican Party that both talked about the scale of the fiscal problems the country faces and that offered serious solutions would, I believe, perhaps ingenuously, be rewarded at the ballot box, just as Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, has done surprisingly well despite his stinginess and lack of Obama-like charisma.
But do they ever reach an objective and useful conclusion?" he asks ingenuously.
"How could anyone be against transparency?" Lawrence Lessig asks, ingenuously, in his 2009 essay "Against Transparency," in The New Republic.
It's a beautiful kind of emotional nakedness — ingenuously exposing the sheer love of playacting — that most actors lose long before they become "professional".
