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The little girl as the narrator depicts her veers between a post-psychology-101 understanding of her own childish craving for love wherever and however she can get it, and faux-naif retrospective descriptions of the adult world: the bunless hot dog alternates with an ice-cream cone with sprinkles for the penis, while in the same scene the seven-year-old announces to Peter, "My parents are repressed."
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If conservatives (or whatever the hell Glenn Beck actually is – quasi-libertarian, conspiracy theory loving, fake-populist faux-naif) love Jews, then liberals must hate them.
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She revels in playing the faux-naif, unaware of the basic branches of government.
Kathy Griffin's 'My Life on the D-List' trip to Washington falls flat on humor 2010
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"Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the news!" opened Reward, while the faux-naif title and jaunty tune of Brave Boys Keep Their Promises cloaks a load of surprisingly Duncan Bannatyneish stuffabout fighting your way to the top.
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There's a faux-naif air about her persona that belies a scalpel-sharp wit, with plenty of smart lines.
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Fully 88 percent accept disingenuous with the meaning "playfully insincere, faux-naif," as in the example "I don't have a clue about late Beethoven!" he said.
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She just jumps in and does it -- whether "it" be writing, drawing the faux-naif "Ernie Pook's Comeek" (which now appears in 57 papers) or just singing for the hell of it.
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Kahlo (190754) was a faux-naif surrealist who specialized in confessional self-portraits.
Frida On Our Minds 2008
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"What if I film my way out of here?" he asks in a faux-naif voice-over.
'Kit Kittredge' 2008
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(The outcry always seemed like so much TMZ faux-naif positioning.)
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