Slap that gaudy pocket square out of a naive friend's hand if necessary.
A naive friend of mine who arrived in London to begin nursing couldn't quite understand why so many successful, ageing businessmen were expiring in gymnasium steam rooms at 3am.
Or Gwyneth Paltrow's naive friend in "Emma"?
Michael appeared gullible and naive; a friend of Natalia's said he "trusted everybody ... Had his wife not watched over him constantly, he would have been deceived at every step".
The philosopher Mary Warnock, who taught Aung San Suu Kyi at Oxford, remembered her as "totally untouched by the sexual aspirations of her friends, naive in a way, but sure-footed and direct in all her dealings … [who] found many things hilarious, not least her tutorials".
Second naive solution is friend lists.
His witty, episodic accounts of the kindly, naive Samuel Pickwick and his friends in the Pickwick Club were instantly successful in their own right, however, and made Dickens a literary sensation.
Criticising Sargent for not being a cubist is as naive as dismissing his friend Henry James for not writing Ulysses.
I was very naive," said a close friend of the bloggers, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
It sounds like she's done quite a bit of that around the Valley, and it seemed like it was time to bring that into the open — before any other naive souls accept her friend request.
