(1) The crucial additional feature of his nature, however, was that the apparently guileless charm was accompanied by a razor-sharp shrewdness.
(2) He is without a doubt the most guileless and gauche politician I have ever met.
(3) These horrors are undeniable, but the use of memoirs intended to distance their authors from Nazism by depicting Hitler's clique as contemptible reinforces the sense of Germans as guileless victims.
(4) We don't associate the slipperiness of memory with the guilelessness of youth.
(5) So Katherine Parkinson, four years in shoulder-pads as guileless office manager Jen in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd (and outfitted pretty identically for her role as maitre d' Caroline in recent BBC comedy Whites ) is relishing a change of threads for her role in Season's Greetings at the National.
(6) Plus of course to stop smiling that peculiarly guileless smile, the look of a man who’s just been hit on the head with a rock and thinks it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
(7) Still others come out of love, a guileless love for a country they don't yet know but that they hope will be all they've dreamed.
(8) Here, the guileless Rowlf turns WereRowlf; the bloodline goes back to the "Wild Man" of medieval art, a folkloric furry man-beast of the woods that Rowlf makes his own.
(9) Michael Rubinstein, solicitor for the publishers Penguin, was a friend of her father, who persuaded her to take the stand, judging correctly how lucid and guileless her evidence would be.
(10) His appeal was his guileless mien and a left hook that terrified opponents two and three stones bigger than him almost as much as his easily sliced eyebrows shocked sensitive onlookers.
(11) For the guileless pathos of that statement alone, I could forgive Hitchens almost anything.
(12) It's the fundamental Cage paradox: the guilelessness that makes his performance.
(13) I looked into his guileless, headteacher's countenance.
(14) Second, there is a winning boyishness to him – he’s serious, intense, guileless.
(15) Then the naughty boy can run rings round nanny, explaining, all guileless innocence, that he wasn't playing with the toys, just with the box.
(16) There is an endearing guilelessness to Criado-Perez.
(17) Her odd combo of artiness and artlessness, and the way she came across in interviews – at once guileless and guarded – made her a target for music-press mockery.
(18) The way he enthuses about film is guileless, like a kid.
(19) Simon Cowell is musically irrelevant” – not even Walsh himself could have mistaken the outburst for anything other than guileless insecurity.
(20) She seems gawky and guileless, a galumphing work in progress; “more goose than swan” in the view of New York Times critic AO Scott .
Naive
Definition:
(a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks.
Example Sentences:
(1) From these results, BM-Eo are naive and seem to be a good indicator for eosinophilotaxis and its modulation.
(2) Rats were divided into four groups: drug naive controls; HAL-treated for 6 months; AMPH-treated for 1 month; and rats administered both continuous HAL for 6 months and concurrent AMPH treatment during the 2nd month of HAL administration.
(3) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
(4) One group of rats was made immunocompetent towards P. aeruginosa by intraperitoneal injection of phenol-killed P. aeruginosa while a second group remained naive to this organism.
(5) But pollsters said that even if the president's worst failing was to have been naively taken in, being hoodwinked by a tax-evader he appointed to one of the country's most important jobs would be hugely damaging for his presidential standing and authority.
(6) It is at present unclear whether this discrepancy is due to the preferential clonal selection of a pre-existing subpopulation of naive B cells that express variable regions altered via nucleotide replacement, or whether the process of nucleotide replacement occurs only during the antigen-dependent stages of B cell differentiation.
(7) In naive cows, strain 433.31 induced less exudation of plasma into the milk, shedding of bacteria, macroscopic alteration, and a lower somatic cell count (SCC) than did the reference strain.
(8) Those transmitted orally to naive hamsters developed in the normal way.
(9) We also found that the frequency of self-reactive but not alloreactive IL-2-producing T cells in the spleens of infected mice was 3- to 10-fold higher than that in naive mice.
(10) IgE helper activity by naive T cells was inhibited by IL-2.
(11) Primed Ts populations that were alloantigen restimulated for 8 hr adsorbed TsDF in a cell dose-dependent fashion and produced TsF in response to that adsorption, whereas alloantigen-stimulated naive cells or primed but nonrestimulated cells neither responded to nor bound TsDF.
(12) PKC was partially purified from the CA1 region of hippocampal slices from naive, pseudoconditioned, and conditioned rabbits 24 hr after the rabbits were well conditioned.
(13) Basal serum amino acids (including central monoamine precursors), central monoamines, and hormones were studied in schizophrenic patients (drug-naive; n = 20; drug-withdrawn for 3 or more days, n = 67; neuroleptic-treated, n = 23) and healthy subjects (n = 90) to answer the following questions: (1) Do neuroleptic-withdrawn and neuroleptic-naive patients differ on these serum measures?
(14) In contrast, rat erythrocyte-primed spleen cells suppressed both a primary 2,4,6 trinitrophenyl (TNP) response and anti-erythrocyte autoantibody production (but not anti-rat erythrocyte antibodies) upon transfer to naive recipients and challenge with TNP-rat erythrocytes.
(15) Animals still immune 6 weeks after immunization were found to have mucin profiles which did not differ significantly from those of freshly immunized animals, whereas animals susceptible to re-infection 12 weeks after immunization had mucin profiles more closely resembling those seen in naive controls.
(16) The cerebellar membrane GABA receptor complex was also studied with binding experiments using naive AT and ANT rats.
(17) These observations also suggest that the Leu8- and DR+ T cells with increased adhesion molecules might preferentially migrate into inflammatory tissues, and that naive T cells are being further converted to to memory T cells by in vivo stimulation within the tissues.
(18) Asked whether she could promise customers that such an attack would never happen again, Harding said: “No, that would be naive.
(19) Mean arterial blood pressure in dives was unchanged from pre-dive levels in both naive and trained dabbling ducks.
(20) In naive Cartesianism this assertion starts out from the assumption that illness may develop solely from physical causes.