Sentence examples for naively imagining from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.