Sentence examples for yet naive from inspiring English sources

In the 1980 original, Cara, playing Coco, a lovely yet naive young student, is tricked into showing up for what she thinks is a legitimate audition.

Worse still, some people who were experienced engineers and programmers yet naive about the stock market turned their options into stock and then borrowed against those shares to pay their taxes.

Sébastien Tellier is perhaps the archetypal French pop star: louche yet naive, sensitive yet flippant, proud of his French heritage but determined to sing mostly in English to reach a wider audience.

In my experiences reading YA books as an adult, they've fulfilled wishes, allowing me to pleasurably re-embody an idealistic yet naive mindset.

Much of the group's activity can be checked off as optimistic, yet naive, activism – a kind of Occupy approach: identifying a problem and just talking about it a lot.

Such plants may thus exploit the individuals in the predator population, that are endowed with some innate capacity to respond to quantitative or qualitative features of plant signals alone, yet naive as to how this chemical information exactly correlates with herbivore density.

And yet often, naive and excited as they seem, these comments are pretty much ones I might be making – if not so explicitly – several decades on.

His side should have run up a cricket score in Lisbon against a youthful yet horribly naive opponent but, instead, were undermined by profligacy and forced to endure the odd pang of anxiety in stoppage time at the end.

The two sides clashed publicly last month over the Orange Book, a volume of essays published by Cable's fiercely bright, yet politically naive deputy, David Laws, whose own chapter calling for healthcare to be funded by social insurance triggered uproar.

His belief in the creative powers and 'freedom' of the monad which he defended from Peircian tychism, scientistic determinism and traditional theism implicitly grounds an ethics of responsibility, while his evolutionary theism (a form of meliorism, rather than of optimism) inspires a confident yet not naive attitude towards life and its challenges.

This plan was ambitious, yet initially naive about the full extent of the effects on TB incidence due to HIV infection; multidrug resistance; institutional transmission of M. tuberculosis; and the time lag for the development of new technologies for more effective prevention, prompt diagnosis and detection of drug resistance, and superior treatment of TB.