Glossary entry

Polish term or phrase:

równie naiwne, co zgubne

English translation:

a feeling as naive as it is dangerous

Added to glossary by Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
Nov 28, 2014 02:34
9 yrs ago
Polish term

równie naiwne, co zgubne

Polish to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Może jednak ta niejasność,
krycie w jednym pojęciu tak szerokiego spektrum sensów bliżej oddaje obrazową naturę?
Operowanie precyzyjnym instrumentarium od razu daje poczucie „panowania nad sytuacją”
– poczucie równie naiwne, co zgubne.

equally naive and disastrous?
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Dec 12, 2014 09:18: Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D. Created KOG entry

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a feeling as naive as it is dangerous

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This denial of our evolutionary heritage is as naive as it is pointless
Rothstein's attack on democracy in the arts is as naive as it is elitist.
...movie was stolen from him; a belief that is as naïve as it is absurd.
Yet the idea that maps and languages may coincide is as naive as it is unreal
This belief is as naive as it is false.
This abstract approach to assimilation derives, ultimately, from the conviction - as naive as it is chauvinistic - that America is an exceptional country
hat passes as commentary is as naive as it is shallow.

that historians are capable of ''an impartial sifting of the record in which truthfulness is the highest value,'' is as naive as it is dangerous
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/17/movies/l-movies-as-history...
"Our gentlemen officers," von Billow explains at one point, "are suddenly indulging in an oppositional fervor that is just as naive as it is dangerous"

providentialism which is as naive as it is dangerous; a view in which providence can only stand proxy for raw power, and thus, one in which historical and

that historians are capable of ''an impartial sifting of the record in which truthfulness is the highest value,'' is as naive as it is dangerous.

Treitschke's contempt for the small State is as naive as it is dangerous

In that one statement, Petraeus showed why the Democratic preoccupation with withdrawal is as naive as it is dangerous.

Browne's 'trickle down' theory of social change is as naive as it is limiting.
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agree wikg
34 mins
Dziękuję Wiktorze.
agree Joanna Carroll : That's precisely the phrase
2 hrs
I most kindly thank you, Asia.
agree Jacek Konopka
9 hrs
Thank you, Jacek.
agree clairee
7 days
Thanks a lot, clairee.
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both naïve and dangerous

naïve, or naive

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agree LilianNekipelov : Yes.
7 hrs
dziękuję
agree George BuLah (X)
9 hrs
dziękuję
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1 day 21 hrs

equally naïve as pernicious

pernicious:
causing harm or ruin;
evil in effect;
ruinous:a pernicious lie

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