Sentence examples for rather naive from inspiring English sources

It seems rather naive now, but also rather moving.

"I think you've got a rather naive view of how disabled people live their lives.

Further, it is a rather naive proposal, because it ignores the reality behind the scenes.

I created a man who was both extremely arrogant and rather naive.

But I thought [in my interview] the real Monica came across, perfectly nice and rather naive.

Like Ms. Reeves, Mr. Williams started out in a rough business rather naive.

We were probably rather fabulously naive.

But, although played with ferocious energy by Keith Fleming, he seems knowing rather than naive.

You might think being knowing, rather than naive, was a precondition of parody: and you'd be right.

Elsewhere, Napoleon – who comes across, at least until he is emperor, as rather sexually naive – stumbles on a "sextet", as Kubrick phrases it Viz-style.

That part was Sir Humphrey Appleby, the suave, guarded, ingenious and manipulative civil service permanent secretary for the rather too naive minister Jim Hacker, in Yes Minister (1980).