Whether you think him corrupt, naive, goofy, aloof, or all of the above, there is no evidence to date that he knowingly lied to his superiors or NCAA investigators regarding Reggie Bush.

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Expecting much more than this, you might say, is hopelessly naive.

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To stand there and put your fingers anywhere near the rough side is naive because the cameras are following you all the time.

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"When you're young, you're probably a little bit more naive to the inequities and injustices that really do exist in the world and why they matter, " said Wright, who lives in Boston.

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How do you think all of our pharma marketing looks with naive eyes?

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Then as now, it is naive to assume that Chinese consumers will buy what you make just because it is cheap, and foolish to treat the vast country with its differences in income, climate and tastes as a single, giant market.

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Paulson says it's "naive for any of us to think that when you're dealing with a situation of this magnitude that a bill could be passed or a single action could be taken" to dig the U.S. out of its economic rut.

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Let's start with the wine writers, the people who contribute observations like "It is a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption, " at least in the imaginations of James Thurber and Monty Python (a fine Australian fighting wine, indeed).

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When I was young and even more naive than I am today, I used to believe that if you did good work it would get recognition.

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Some of you will think the rest of Lord Skidelsky's argument is equally impractical, or naive.

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