Sentence examples for somehow naive from inspiring English sources

Karl Lagerfeld tried a similar effect last season at Chanel, but Ms. Prada made it look somehow naive.

"People pursued interracial solidarity, not because they were somehow naive, but because that was their lived experience," Jung said.

Others still felt implicated in what had happened that they'd been naive, or somehow complicit, or failed to roundly condemn the behaviour at the time.

It seems a hopelessly naive idea today, that somehow writing proletarian pop tunes would be part of the tearing down of society.

With one or two exceptions, everyone in the film seems to live lives that are so mediated by the grammar of reality television and docudrama that they behave as if they are somehow both utterly knowing and wilfully naive.

These are the ideas being gestured at in Cronenberg's film, but there is something just so inert in it, and the implication that the financial crisis has somehow been partly willed out of ennui is naive.

We should not be so naive as to think that we are somehow immune, that it "couldn't happen here".

It is naive to assume that such adversity will somehow bring the group together.

The notion that "attitude" will somehow inoculate the colonists against these conditions is at best naive, at worst irresponsible.

Some very naive arguments have been previously set out that somehow if Scotland was on its own it wouldn't be subject to any international attention or terrorist attack," he said.

Some would call that a laughably naive strategy for making it in the world, but somehow it's worked for Boyle.