Sentence examples for naively imagined from inspiring English sources

This was the opposite to what she had naively imagined, as a girl.

I'd naively imagined that this nonsense had been shamed out of British football by then.

These weren't the stereotypical, angry conservatives who I had always naively imagined supported torture.

Before I came to Kenya, I had naively imagined everyone hurtling along without a thought for anything as restricting and analytical as a stopwatch.

Ithacans describe the town as 10 square miles surrounded by reality, and I naively imagined four years of making friendship bracelets and braiding hair bathed in the golden sunlight that ricocheted off the gurgling waterfalls.

We perhaps naively imagined that we'd waltz into a building where the girls who are legally and contractually prostitutes didn't have to be so overtly whorish; more lady, less lady-of-the-night.

On the eve of publication, most authors follow a disciplined publicity schedule, and so I naively imagine that our interview will take place at 7pm as arranged.

I naively imagine she might be off to pick up her youngest son from school, in fact she has a fitting at Lanvin for a frock for the Baftas.

Without even a moment of public discourse, the Smithsonian team 'stepped and fetched.' They removed the work from the exhibit, naively imagining that they could bow to the pressures of a religious right, financially-powerful majority and that few would take notice.

Moreover, they argue that in focussing on the 'good life' and flourishing, HP appears to promote self-regulation, perhaps naively imagining that scientists will transform themselves and their practices when there is no institutional or financial imperative to do so.

Naively, I imagined this would be a derangement confined to a few weird nobodies, but, duh, I forgot: everyone is crazy now.