Sentence examples for wilfully naive from inspiring English sources

But did he have to be so wilfully naive?

Physical theatre seemed wilfully naive to me; apolitical, sentimental in many instances.

Seen through this prism, then, in its wilfully naive insularity, this song is toxic waste.

It's a wilfully naive and blinkered way to approach a work of literature".

It's a wilfully naive transaction, yes, but it's like going to the cinema to watch a massive blockbuster full of explosions and expensive scenery.

The allegory is plain, but its blatancy is modulated by the depiction of Mehring; the reader's sympathies ricochet between sour and gentle forms of pity for this wilfully naive, unconsciously weak figure.

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.

Arguing that landlords should be able to abdicate responsibility when providing homes, renting out sheds, electrical firetraps and damp, mouldy wrecks with impunity shows a wilfully naive understanding of the economics and mechanisms of the housing crisis.