Sentence examples for naively expecting from inspiring English sources

We had all started our medical training naively expecting the best of everything, but within a few months we were disillusioned.

Walking the four blocks down from my own apartment, I babbled to him about which porn might be playing, naively expecting one of the big budget actress I had spent time with at this year's AVN Awards to be lighting up the screen.

I had naively expected a wonderland of cooperation and conservation.

And at other times, officials naively expect the market to sort out the problems of transition by itself.

Obviously, the stakes of today's multibillion dollar N.B.A. are far too high for us to naively expect such blacktop honor to carry the day.

In the book he recalls Team Obama's shock when the president found it was facing "monolithic" Republican opposition to his agenda, rather than the bipartisan support they had "naively" expected as the economy stood on the brink of a depression.

Even though she had wanted Nyman to compose the music for Configurations in his own idiom, she had, perhaps naively, expected him to pin his score on to the exact mathematical sequences of her choreography.

I naively expected policy from Cameron and the coalition that began with a true understanding of disability that can only come from living with it, either yourself, or through a close family member, day in, day out.

"I'd naively expected that if you trawled through five or six generations of one family, you'd find some people had gone up in the world and others had gone down.

This lunacy as much as anything explains why the state's utilities are now on the verge of insolvency, compelled to buy power on the spot market.Yet at other times, the regulators naively expect the market to sort out the problems of transition by itself.

For instance, one would naively expect that those who support animal rights would be far more likely to oppose abortion than those who reject the notion of animal rights; conversely, those who oppose abortion should be much more likely to accept animal rights.