Sentence examples for a ingenuous from inspiring English sources

At the launch in September of the Harvard Center for Genomics Research, he opened his inaugural address before an overflow crowd of 1,000 students and faculty with a ingenuous denial of guilt: 'There's a myth which is that, you know, that Francis and I basically stole the structure from the people at King's.

Ms. McKay personified a contradiction: an ingenuous naïf with a torch singer's sophistication.

In dreamlike sequences that exist somewhere between unwitting delusions and deliberate imaginings, and in which the realness of any and all characters is constantly in doubt, Angela bonds somewhat haphazardly with a kindergarten teacher (an ingenuous Neimah Djourabchi) who says his wife is missing.

'MULHOLLAND DRIVE' -- David Lynch's hallucinatory vision of Hollywood twists the interwoven stories of an ingenuous Hollywood hopeful, a sultry amnesia victim, a hot-shot Hollywood director and others into a nightmarish meditation on the dream factory, self-reinvention and multiple identities.

Created in the form of a nomadic museum, Gaba's extraordinary project consisted of 12 exhibition rooms set up in various European art institutions over a period of five years in an ingenuous attempt to create a space for African art.

After missing the deadline to nominate directors to CF's board in 2009, Agrium failed to bid forcefully for CF in 2010 after waiting a year and arranging an ingenuous solution to obtain antitrust clearance.

Reagan was an enigma: affable but friendless, a nonintellectual man of ideas, an ingenuous power politician.

Many of the most distinctive bits came from Jérôme Jarre, an ingenuous Frenchman with an arresting smile.

Jérôme Jarre, one of today's top digital-video stars, is, Tad Friend writes in this week's issue, "an ingenuous Frenchman with an arresting smile".

Digital Marketing Ramblings estimates that 8,300 Vines are shared every minute, but rather than question the quality of those videos or suggest their potential degradation of filmmaking, The New Yorker chose to write flatteringly of one of Vine's most successful practitioners: "an ingenuous Frenchman with an arresting smile".

Also included is Lulu (Charlotte Parry), a pretty young neighbor with an ingenuous view of older men.