Sentence examples for naively thinking from inspiring English sources

Worse, he designed a military academy, even more naively thinking that he could influence the training of officers with his designs.

There was a fear that in some places which wanted an Emmaus community, local trustees were naively thinking it was easy to raise funds, get premises, appoint a leader, open the doors.

The aim was to write something "accessible and pretty contemporary in its syntax", Paterson tells me – but fitting that to the music was easier said than done …. "I started off naively thinking that I could just make a nice rhyming, scanning translation of Striggio, and then figure out how to fit it.

"Having cleared my name I approached Waitrose with my expert report, naively thinking that it would be horrified by what had happened and would offer me compensation for the inconvenience, distress and financial loss, as well as take urgent steps to ensure that such an incident could not be repeated," he says.

We enter, naively thinking that we can solve any problem presented to us, not realizing just how much we don't know.

Darron Burness, head of the AA's flood rescue team, said: "Our patrols have seen it all in that time - including people ignoring road closure signs, blindly following their sat nav or other drivers into deep water, and 4x4 drivers naively thinking their car has amphibious qualities".

Leaving may not be as possible as one might naively think.

I naively came here thinking that all my problems would be solved.

Somewhat naively, we proceeded thinking that a statute clarifying that breastfeeding was not a criminal act would be sufficient to stop harassment".

We put out a polite and dignified call for interns, thinking, perhaps naively, that descriptors like "hardworking", "intelligent" and "not totally shitty" will be enough to get the point across and, like clockwork, the tidal wave of tell-all, snarkfest applications comes down on us like shitty, diary-style hellfire.

If you've never been laid off, consider yourself fortunate, but don't naively go about your day thinking that it won't happen to you.