| But anything more general just smacks, to me, of a naivety about the historical construction of the nation-state. |
| To some people, this will seem an unwarranted naivety about the power of free speech in civil society to weed out cultural oppression. |
| The charge that supermarkets are motivated by the desire to generate enormous profits points to a naivety about the business world. |
| Yet Niebuhr also spent much of his life inveighing against the naivety of liberalism, as in his most famous book, Moral Man and Immoral Society. |
| I wouldn't really want to speculate on the level of naivety or lack of naivety. |
| So when she said that she decided to stay on as there was important work to do afterwards, I grinned at the splendid naivety of her egotism. |
