Sentence examples for naive simpleton from inspiring English sources

· Fans of Frank Capra's movie Mr Smith Goes To Washington - with Jimmy Stewart as the naive simpleton who gets elected to Congress - will recognise something similar in the person of US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill, the strangest appointment to the cabinet by a president since Warren Harding gave a post to a man he met on a train.

The hotel manager is a naive, Kipling-quoting simpleton, who is immensely grateful to Dame Judi and Dame Maggie for intervening so that his business and love life do not go down the pan due to his ineptitude.

A primeval simpleton.

He called me a simpleton.

aesthete or an earnest simpleton?

Naive eh?

So naive.

Here, I become an overawed simpleton.

"I'm not some happy-faced simpleton.

DREW--Stanley. Baker and noble simpleton.

Mr Bayrou is not a simpleton.