It's thus satisfying to see President Obama ignore the willfully naive who are wailing over deficits.
Painting in a willfully naive, realist style, Mr. Moore, 47, has long addressed the theme of poisoned nature.
It's all well and good to embrace relics of the past, but it seems willfully naive to offer them up unexamined and undigested.
Voices of dismay and disappointment resound around Israel in the wake of Pope Benedict's "pilgrimage", but only someone ignorant of the Vatican's record or willfully naive could be surprised at his failure to tackle the issues that matter throughout the Jewish world.
The dreary "Into My Heart" is so willfully naive that one of its heroes picks up a Manhattan waitress -- played by the absurdly beautiful Claire Forlani, who breaks a new series of hearts whenever she bats her lush eyelashes -- the first time he lays eyes on her.
Voices of dismay and disappointment resound around Israel in the wake of Pope Benedict's "pilgrimage", but only someone ignorant of the Vatican's record or willfully naive could be surprised at his failure to tackle the issues that matter throughout the Jewish world.
Not only do they impose themselves between the reader and the work -thereby inhibiting any sort of unmediated, visceral response - but they also set forth Mr. Bly's esthetics in such sentimental, willfully naive terms that they tend to undermine the actual work.
Someone who is willfully naive about science will say, "Who cares?" But these are critically important issues that will shape the future success of this country.
Pretending that metamodern art causes misunderstandings more than every single interaction on Facebook and Twitter already does is unrealistic at best, and willfully naive at worst.
Only the most willfully naive observers could convince themselves that the Republican Party, its corporate paymasters, or collaborators like Alice Rivlin, have any serious interest in reducing the national deficit.
