Somewhat ingenuous and too trusting, nevertheless he made a lasting contribution to the land he came to love. |
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At the risk of being thought even more ingenuous or, indeed, of exposing myself to ridicule, let me present another idea. |
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This ingenuous charm contrasts with Mason's greater worldliness, greater opacity. |
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His vulnerability, his emotions are those of the wily and ingenuous country lawyer. |
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Policy-planning, decision-making and implementation of strategy should be transparent and ingenuous. |
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She plays her absurd role with more conviction than seems possible, not to mention a charmingly ingenuous sexiness. |
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Unfortunately, when these rules are broken there is a real danger that an ingenuous error will evolve from self-delusion to fraud. |
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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. |
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Ryder's familiarity with the camera contributes to his disarmingly ingenuous presence, by turns determined and naive. |
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Sometimes the reviewer knows nothing of the author or the reputation in which a book comes wrapped, the result being a rare, ingenuous honesty. |
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But underneath it, in the emotional and psychological content, the plot is very ingenuous, almost adolescent. |
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We are not called to be inferior, or infantile, or ingenuous in regard to the other, or to assume an attitude of servile passivity. |
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I think it is a bit ingenuous to suggest in the House that somehow this was a minority legal opinion. |
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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. |
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The outburst, however ingenuous, nevertheless clearly showed that the little girl had understood that, somewhere, there had been a rotation. |
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The government says it was not an easy decision, but the gymnastics to justify its position are at best ingenuous. |
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Obviously, if the question is ingenuous, posed in order to arrive at pre-established answers, there is no room for educational ignorance. |
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An ingenuous mix of faded blues and soft yellow brings back teddy bears, blue skies and secret hideaways. |
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From a point of view more ingenuous we could think that they are stimuli that come from the outside world, which provoke these experiences. |
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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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By association, the current designer is handicapped by the fact that men look behind any cultural invention for irrelevant, ingenuous, or threatening forces. |
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But his ingenuous one-world sentiments are apotheosized into truth by the strength of his melodic gifts and a voice that's still sweet and grainy when it needs to be. |
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She thanked me with ingenuous sweetness for coming home with her. |
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Reagan was an enigma: affable but friendless, a nonintellectual man of ideas, an ingenuous power politician. |
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The ingenuous narrator, a mill inspector, falls victim to arrogant local bosses when he pokes into the deaths of two predecessors. |
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She was an excellent ballad singer, conveying a winsome, ingenuous quality. |
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Anyone who has known a woman on this planet also knows how ingenuous this stereotype is. |
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They were charming youths, ingenuous and intelligent at the same time. |
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However, I am somewhat ingenuous and I want to believe I will get a satisfactory response to my question here this evening. |
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This way of thinking is all the more ingenuous because the USA is the largest exporter of agricultural products to the Developing World, and not only to the European Union. |
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In the ingenuous writings of Ireneus of Lyon, one of the first defenders of the Church of Rome, that story became the amazing story of Simon of Cyrene, who was substituted for Jesus Christ and crucified in his place! |
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The second reason is that this wording reveals a completely ingenuous analysis, which states that a unilateral reduction of subsidies by the European Union could solve the problems. |
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The background of this ingenuous invention: instead of removing moisture from the system afterwards, it is prevented from entering in the first place. |
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But is not a dupe nor one who is ingenuous. |
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The agency will provide support to small and medium-sized businesses as they seek creative and ingenuous ways of developing and marketing new products. |
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In other words, trivial, anodyne, fragmentary proposals which, at best, are ingenuous, in that they are a long way from dealing with a problem which claims the health and lives of millions of minors. |
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Without becoming unduly pessimistic about the human condition, Europe must be less ingenuous in the face of the dangers that will arise in the future. |
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This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds. |
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I don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me. |
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