Sentence examples for naively trusting from inspiring English sources

He presents us with a charismatic leader steeped in patriarchal tradition and naively trusting in the invulnerability of power: confronted by Antigone and her sister Ismene, he mockingly observes "these women are neurotic", and when his son Haemon tries to warn him about shifting popular sympathy, he loftily dismisses "the opinions of people in the street".

We are unsophisticated and unrealistic in the information we pour online, naively trusting of the places we store it and woefully illiterate about the implications of doing so.

Felicity Jones as the naively trusting Luise and Paul Higgins as the musician establish an intense daughter-father relationship that explains why the story attracted Verdi.

(S18) … my initial approach would always be to take at face value what somebody is telling me in a clinical consultation … if I got that wrong and I thought somebody was trying to mislead me and they actually were not doing … that would … destroy any relationship with that patient … and I would rather be naively trusting than try to undermine what patients were telling me.

Many Soviet leaders responsible for the "miracle of 1990" – like the former Soviet ambassador to Bonn, Valentin Falin – have complained bitterly that Mikhail Gorbachev naively trusted the west and gave away so much for so little.

The local cops and prosecutors, who Deskovic naively had trusted would be on his side, went out of their way not to help him, but to gain his conviction.

Right now, many people naively believe what they read on social media.

We naively believe that we can become billionaires overnight.

Friends naively believe that adding sex to their relationship will not lead to complications.

Kerry is accused of naively believing that Russia can be trusted.

But both she and I had naively believed that Lloyds could be trusted and she was being charged the going rate.