Word: naivetã
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...acting is superb. My only frustration was that the bond between Joan and Todd never fully cements. His boyish earnestness in the face of injustice and her detached naivet?? of the happenings in the world make an odd match. The fact that they later marry is a little hard to grasp...
Appointing someone to “do something” about “alcohol” seems to reflect a certain naivet?? on the part of the University; and it was initially unclear to Dartboard how this new position would have much of an impact on the student body...
...limitless naivet??, I believed that I actually had the power not only to provoke thought, not only to provide people with a little bit of entertainment as they skimmed my column over breakfast, but to cause something tangible to happen. Boy was I wrong. Sure, the columns produced a few interesting e-mail exchanges with faculty and administrators and even the occasional letter to the editor—but within a few days of publication I was usually the only person who remembered that any given article of mine had ever been written...
Indeed, Ma himself playfully acknowledges that he has never fully grown up, perhaps as a result of his unusually precocious childhood. But he credits his years at Harvard with helping him to overcome some of his childhood naivet??. “Growing up—well growing up implies that I have finished growing!—I was exposed to a very specific, focused musical background, so seeing [in college] so many people my own age passionate about what they were studying, just as I was, really opened many doors...
...cynical as we have become, we depend on this naivet?? for survival. That’s because cynicism is paralyzing. If you really believed that your car was going to get stolen no matter how loud a security system you installed, you’d never park it anywhere. Same thing with bikes: If you lived in constant fear of theft, you’d never ride it anywhere, and certainly not in Cambridge. And let’s not forget politics. After Watergate, Vietnam, Iran-Contra, Clinton-Lewinsky and dozens of other episodes of the now-syndicated television...