There is a peculiar sort of naivete about Italian ostentation, which robs it of all its offensiveness.
His humility makes him wonder; hisnaivete makes him talk quite frankly, unrestrained by the conventions that balk others.
That smile is as inevitable a part of Baruch as his engaging naivete in talking about himself.
That also, together with the extreme naivete of their librettos, is the great handicap of the Weber operas.
There's a lot of simpleheartedness and naivete about you still.
The Grande Mademoiselle describes herself and her friends, with the curious naivete of a spoiled child who thinks its smallest experiences of interest to all the world.
With curious naivete she says: Whoever should write all that was said by fifteen or twenty women together would make the worst book in the world, even if some of them were women of intelligence.
There is a charm in the simple naivete with which she tells her friends how cordially Maria Theresa receives her at Schonbrunn, and she does not forget to add that the empress said she had the most beautiful complexion in the world.
There is a serious naivete in all her efforts in this direction.
This way of putting the matter enables us specially to understand that natural openness and naivete of the brutes, referred to above, as contrasted with the concealment of man.
Sensuality personified is the general character of his females, and the grace of his children, less naivete than grimace, the caricature of jollity.
The contrast of the attitudes is produced more by naivete than affectation, the lines have more simplicity than the style of Mazzuola admitted of, and the colour more breadth.
And the remarkable thing is that this naivete is intimately blended with a grandeur which sometimes rises to the sublime.
The naivete and simple concrete imagery in the expression of religious feeling are far removed from mysticism.
From this come the bracing freshness of his poetry, its naivete of language, its apparent artlessness and unconscious charm.
At his books Harry was not brilliant certainly; but he could write as well as a great number of men of fashion; and the naivete of his ignorance amused the old lady.
By demoniac he meant a conscious person, who under pretext of the greatest naivete acted with full calculation, always awake and leading the fates of other beings according to his plans.
Their unintelligible naivete in behavior made him only turn his back on them with a sneer and loathing.
Sometimes this belief presents itself with childishnaivete and even with a half-pagan air, God appearing as the almighty fulfiller of human wishes.
Florence had never ceased to confess with shocking naivete its old Guelph preference for the French.
The comedy of the tale lies in the startling contrast of this real or assumed naivete with conventional morality and the ordinary relations of the world--things are made to stand on their heads.
But the great feasts of the Church were from an early time accompanied by a civic procession, and the naivete of the Middle Ages found nothing unfitting in the many secular elements which it contained.
There is much naivete in the surprised expression of the seated Sir Joseph, and much dainty charm in the youths with their vessels of gold.
Sincerity and naivete are too apparent for this to be the work of any but a quite young artist, and one whose style is so thoroughly 'Giorgionesque' as to be none other than the young Giorgione himself.
The figure of Christ is admirable in drawing and foreshortening, and painted with a broad decisive touch in really astonishing relief; while the weeping angels, if not of an elevated type, are marked by a real naivete and sincerity of pathos.
The sentiment has all the simplicity and purity of spontaneous love, and the language the sweet naivete of folk-song, however much of its charm may have vanished in the translation.
Vraiment thenaivete of this Frederick is prodigious.
True, the poor little archduke was not gifted with the grace and charming naivete of his brother.
But with this naivete and simplicity is joined a great love for dress and display.
Such were the commandments of the god of France, less astonishing in themselves than the terrible naivete which made him bequeath them to posterity, as if posterity also must believe in him.
The famous Duchesse de Chatillon warned readers that she was going to speak with a naivete "the greatest possible.
It required all the naivete of Mademoiselle to be able to imagine that she could make the King as an old Frondeur admit the distinctions between M.
On the eve of the Day of the Kings a curious farce is performed by bands of the lowest orders of the people, which demonstrates the apparently endless naivete of their class.
There is a curious naivete in the play-bill of a bull-fight, the only conscientious public document I have seen in Spain.
Still above this a fine, bold group of statuary, representing, with that reverent naivete of early art, God the Father in the work of creation.
This seems to have surprised him; for he enlarged on it with the naivete and pomposity of youth.
But only the naivete of Chaucer's literary age, together with the vivacity of his manner of thought and writing, could place him in so close a personal relation towards the personages and the incidents of his poems.
In general, much of that naivete which to modern readers seems Chaucer's most obvious literary quality must be ascribed to the times in which he lived and wrote.
