I turned to the driver and asked in disbelief, "You mean all these people you are telling me about drive through these roads to get to their beachfront villas and hotels?" "Oh no," he said with a you-must-be-so-naive smile, "They go by helicopter.
But his smile, naive and hopeful, could belong to a small boy.
The question is finally put, with an attempt at a naive tone and a smile, to one of the guides: what would the police here do should they come across any robbers.
It was a noble effort, if naive at times, but the smile on Robson's face as she walked off the Louis Armstrong Court after an hour and 38 minutes was surely one of satisfaction at reaching for the improbable with the best weapons she had.
Here was this cheerful, gifted, naive kid with this great big wide smile, like a kid coming downstairs on Christmas morning, and he was stepping into angle city.
"I would vacillate between the naive assumption that when Joe saw my smiling face perhaps he would relent and the idea that given enough time and obsessiveness, it didn't matter if he spoke to me," Mr. Cramer said.
Mention a pre-1914 designer like Poiret, of hobble-skirt fame, and he smiles: "Fashion was a little naive in those days, both the clothes and the way people talked about them.
"That was when I was young and naive in college," she tells me with an embarrassed smile.
"I'm still as naive as I was then -- in certain respects," says Benson with a strained smile, wearing a green vintage New York Jets cap low on his forehead, shadowing his once-brilliant baby blues.
