Naivety is important at an early stage - in life or in an undertaking - but a definite impediment later on.
That some of these products are astonishingly beautiful does not negate the essential naivety of the thinking.
These distinctions are tied up with notions of media awareness and sophistication, implying that identifying with music reveals a level of ignorance or naivety.
This may indicate a level of political naivety or disorganisation.
The book contains too many theoretical naiveties of this kind.
One suspects that in this context academic objectivity is disguising political naivety.
The air was full of such language, which in hindsight seems to be symptomatic either of post-traumatic stress disorder, or of staggering naivety.
Political amnesia (which forgets even the last decade) combined with academic naivety is a dangerous thing.
