They are extremely naive and simple, and at first are likely to strike a modern as being caricatures rather than illustrations.
Early in the sixteenth century he came under Italian influence and painted some pictures that, while naive and primitive, exhibit evidence of high artistic ability.
His final glance said half cynically, half in pity: 'You arenaive and unspoilt now, but these eyes will see yours harden like the rest.
He did not need to be told that Anna was perfectly ignorant of the craft of pottery, and that every detail of it, so stale to him, would acquire freshness under her naive and inquiring gaze.
His tone was so earnest, so pathetic, that tears of compassion almost rose to her eyes as she looked at those simple naive blue eyes of his.
Before the hymn was finished a young man joined the assembly; it was the youth who had sat near Anna on the previous night, an ecstatic and naive bliss shone from his face.
Notwithstanding its effeminacy, it had its own peculiar charm, which ranked in perfection far above the naive culture of Kamakura, the latter being too rough and new, however refreshing.
It was to this unique and naive state of things in primeval Japan taken as a whole that he applied the term Shintoism.
But Mary seemed to understand as well as he the risks and perils of their position, and acted not at all the happy, naive bride-to-be.
She could not know that in following this naive and wishful train of thought she was making a classic mistake, indeed, the same mistake her mother had made before her.
So the coffin was laid on the ground at the great barred doors, a naive little object begging for a mite of the holy emanation that still clung about the great building as some vague odour of incense.
Then people, the poor lowly folk of the village, began to troop in with many "pobrecitas" and pitying exclamations and rude, naive gifts.
Let them think I am a naiveyoung nobleman, easily gulled.
Daoud molded the Face of Clay into an expression of naive wonderment.
Translations of poetry as a rule are merely misrepresentations, but the muse of Beranger is so simple and naive that she can wear our English dress with ease and grace, and Mr. Toynbee has kept much of the mirth and music of the original.
He is very naive and very primitive and speaks of his giants with the air of a child.
And what a curious life it is, half civilised and half barbarous, naive and corrupt, chivalrous and commonplace, real and improbable!
This is wonderful," he said, blurting out the truth like a naive boy.
It embodies the naiveassumption that cultivated minds and challenged bodies unite in a balanced personality of high integrity.
The point is proven by the naive misrepresentation of past events, facts, and figures through the activists of the movement.
For some reason he felt very tolerant towards this girl's naive eagerness.
She had recently announced her engagement, and was naive in her disclosures of her own feelings in the present discussion.
All these naive confessions were made, it must be remembered, either in her journal, or in letters to her nearest friends, and without fear of misinterpretation.
All these persons were clamoring over their various anxieties with the most naive frankness, the truth coming freely out, whatever it might be.
The slightly squinting naive black eyes looked up in the same old way.
He only smiled contemptuously at Nekhludoff's naive conclusion, that the copy he had received would suffice to set Maslova free, and declared that a direct order from his own superiors would be needed before any one could be set at liberty.
And mind you, she was naive enough or clever enough to play up to the highest possible estimate of such a situation.
She greeted me with a naive delight, a tacit confidence that I shared her view of the situation, and had managed to meet her by some tremendous tour-de-force of romantic intuition.
In the naive form of a folk tale, it doubtless embodies the observations of a seeing eye, in a country and time when the little jackal and the great alligator were even more vivid images of certain human characters than they now are.
But he knew men too well to have faith in their collective intelligence and disinterestedness, thenaive faith of so many French philosophers.
One of the earliest and frankest expressions of that naive and almost unconscious imperialism appears in an unpublished letter to Doctor Mitchell.
This is a naive and quite significant confession of the difficulty he experienced in maintaining his puritanical restraint and impassibility at that time.
I can never forget his naive sort of astonishment when remonstrated with for what appeared a most dare-devil performance.
Besides, nothing will prevent us from destroying the drawings if we should not care for them, for the naive and somewhat selfish young man apparently does not even admit the thought that anybody's hand would destroy his productions.
It is hard to describe the vehement delight into which the exalted young man was thrown; naive and pure-hearted youth knows no bounds either in grief or in joy.
I was exceedingly amused at the characteristic and naive manner in which you expressed your detestation of Varney's character--so much so, indeed, that I could not forbear laughing aloud when I perused that part of your letter.
These "Mysteries" or miracle plays in Old French verse are naive enough in their kindly stratagems, by which the votary is saved from punishment in this life and his soul from torment in the next.
The work exhibits a naive acceptance of every kind of miracle, and presents the supple mediaeval devil in all his deceitful metamorphoses.
The full significance of the new mode of warfare, of the needle-gun and other new implements of war, was obscured in their eyes by their naive Jingoism.
This seems to be true, if "animism" be construed in a sufficiently naive and inchoate sense.
The scheme of life has been a scheme of personal aggression and subservience, partly in the naive form, partly conventionalised in a system of status.
They were therefore more fully conscious of the bearing of their postulates and less naive in their assumptions of self-sufficiency.
These several disciplines or bodies of knowledge had wandered far from the naive animistic standpoint at the time when economic science emerged, and much the same is true as regards the time of the emergence of other modern sciences.
A naive apprehension of the dictum that all knowledge is pragmatic would find more satisfactory corroboration in the intellectual output of scholasticism than in any system of knowledge of an older or a later date.
But these non-economic employments are not so much to the point in the present inquiry; the point being employments which are unmistakably economic, but not industrial in the naive sense of the word industry, and which yield an income.
He is not in sufficiently naive accord with the range of preconceptions then in vogue.
The chief difference is that Roscher is more naive and more specific.
One is tempted to remark that a more naive apprehension of the facts of modern capital would have afforded a more competent realisation of the problems of monopoly.
The naive simplicity of this request set both the coaches into an uproar of laughter.
For a time naive humanity swamped the conventions of warfare altogether; the interest of the millions below and of the thousands above alike was spectacular.
Indeed most people seem inclined to think that such an idea represented very characteristically the naive medical science of the time.
To obtain them in all their original simplicity and naive humor of detail, one should be able to write them down in short-hand as fast as they are related: they lose greatly in the slow process of dictation.
