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Somewhat ingenuous and too trusting, nevertheless he made a lasting contribution to the land he came to love.
At the risk of being thought even more ingenuous or, indeed, of exposing myself to ridicule, let me present another idea.
This ingenuous charm contrasts with Mason's greater worldliness, greater opacity.
His vulnerability, his emotions are those of the wily and ingenuous country lawyer.
Policy-planning, decision-making and implementation of strategy should be transparent and ingenuous.
She plays her absurd role with more conviction than seems possible, not to mention a charmingly ingenuous sexiness.
Unfortunately, when these rules are broken there is a real danger that an ingenuous error will evolve from self-delusion to fraud.
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.
Ryder's familiarity with the camera contributes to his disarmingly ingenuous presence, by turns determined and naive.
Sometimes the reviewer knows nothing of the author or the reputation in which a book comes wrapped, the result being a rare, ingenuous honesty.
But underneath it, in the emotional and psychological content, the plot is very ingenuous, almost adolescent.
We are not called to be inferior, or infantile, or ingenuous in regard to the other, or to assume an attitude of servile passivity.
I think it is a bit ingenuous to suggest in the House that somehow this was a minority legal opinion.
The original novel caught the ingenuous babble of its protagonist, naively recording the happy circumstances of her household as her master closed in on her.
The outburst, however ingenuous, nevertheless clearly showed that the little girl had understood that, somewhere, there had been a rotation.
The government says it was not an easy decision, but the gymnastics to justify its position are at best ingenuous.
Obviously, if the question is ingenuous, posed in order to arrive at pre-established answers, there is no room for educational ignorance.
An ingenuous mix of faded blues and soft yellow brings back teddy bears, blue skies and secret hideaways.
From a point of view more ingenuous we could think that they are stimuli that come from the outside world, which provoke these experiences.
In the next three seconds, somewhere in the world, an ingenuous pop star or maybe a dippy actress or a sententious comedian will harangue you about Third World debt.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And already this inebriating illusion of an ingenuous girl concerning a common male was helping to shape monstrous events.
Without knowing why, they understood perfectly now that neither had been ingenuous.
He had not been quite so ingenuous in his revelation to chillingly as he may have seemed.
Somehow, the inflection on the last word did not altogether suggest the ingenuous.
Shortly after this very ingenuous proposal Izanagi and Izanami were married.
He was, however, anticipated by the voice of the ingenuous and youthful Alice.
Simple gratitude, untinctured with love, is all the return an ingenuous mind can bestow for former benefits.
There were voices, too, the ingenuous bawlings of that bosun, offensively active.
Some are delightfully ingenuous, with the lovable simplicity of the child.
Her extreme limpidity was almost provoking, and I felt for the moment that she would have been more satisfactory if she had been less ingenuous.
Her ingenuous innocence did not conceal her gladness at seeing me!
I cannot boast of Mr. Creech's ingenuous fair dealing to me.
Imogen stood for a moment in a sweet and ingenuous state of suspense.
This ingenuous remark confirmed Miss Maxwell's opinion of Rebecca as a girl who could hear the truth and profit by it.
My experienced commander seemed in one searching glance to read my thoughts on my ingenuous face.
He possessed a soul brave, liberal, enlightened, and ingenuous.
Of all the ingenuous declarations I have ever heard, this one copped the proverbial bun.
An expression of shock overspread lackaday's ingenuous features.
Heaven only knows what he said to them, but he caused smiles and blushes to mantle their ingenuous faces.
He trembled before this innocence, so ardent and so ingenuous.
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