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By the 1800s a Mexican school could be recognized - a certain naiveté and distinctive use of local pigments, more allegorical pictures both religious and secular.
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By the 1800s a Mexican school could be recognized - a certain naiveté and distinctive use of local pigments, more allegorical pictures both religious and secular.
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By the 1800s a Mexican school could be recognized - a certain naiveté and distinctive use of local pigments, more allegorical pictures both religious and secular.
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This kind of naiveté on Harris's part raises suspicion about his connection to psychological reality.
Deepak Chopra: Beyond Belief: Sam Harris Imagines a "Moral Landscape" Deepak Chopra 2010
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It is done very naively, too, but it is well to remember how frequently in the past this very kind of naiveté has associated with great genius.
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It pruned from its pieces anything that might come across as allusive or knowing, and it promoted, in its writing and cartoons, a sensibility that took urbanity to be perfectly compatible with a certain kind of naiveté.
Finding It at the Movies Menand, Louis 1995
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It is done very naively, too, but it is well to remember how frequently in the past this very kind of naiveté has associated with great genius.
Wanderers Knut Hamsun 1905
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By asking students to "embrace a kind of naiveté," Vazquez is honoring a larger objective.
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What Raju calls naiveté - in effect a pioneering spirit motivated by passion and not profit - was backed by the hard edge of a keen intellect. "
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Vanity Fair undermines the kind of naiveté Tompkins’s claim depends on; it suggests that the need to understand the readers of domestic fiction as sophisticated consumers of a diverse array of narrative styles with varying didactic purposes.
Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the UnMasking of Anglo-American Sentiment 2006
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