| His vulnerability, his emotions are those of the wily and ingenuous country lawyer. |
| They saw simply a loose, lank youth with tow-colored sunburned hair and a berry-brown, ingenuous face that wore a quizzical, good-natured smile. |
| But underneath it, in the emotional and psychological content, the plot is very ingenuous, almost adolescent. |
| Unfortunately, when these rules are broken there is a real danger that an ingenuous error will evolve from self-delusion to fraud. |
| She plays her absurd role with more conviction than seems possible, not to mention a charmingly ingenuous sexiness. |
| Sometimes the reviewer knows nothing of the author or the reputation in which a book comes wrapped, the result being a rare, ingenuous honesty. |
