A technological whiz, political naif and economic eccentric, he has struck fear into the hearts of international investors.

Shakespeare makes the hero, Caius Martius, an even greater warrior but a political naif.

But then, David is also a political naif; that is one of the film's more intriguing themes.

The 65-year-old secretary is no political naif.

Mrs. McCarthy greets the notion that she is a political naif with a withering stare.

Sander was probably a political naïf.

To his critics, he is a political naïf who was suckered by radical "ecosystem management" notions that reduced the commercial timber harvest and left the woods vulnerable to fire.

He writes that Nixon considered him a poor campaign manager, a political naif and no good at lying.

Wodehouse was a political naïf ("What I can't see," he said in the spring of 1939, "is what difference it makes.

Kim Jong-il was nobody's political naif, so we must assume that he judged his third son the best available choice.