Sentence examples for deceptively innocent from inspiring English sources

It's a deceptively innocent, maybe even desperate, ritual.

Among the controls is a deceptively innocent button labeled Sport.

Judith Lambertson's paintings of Umbria are deceptively innocent.

Fallaci was chosen because she wore her hair in pigtails and looked deceptively innocent.

It's now an unpreposessing structure that has been painted a deceptively innocent storybook yellow.

Indeed, at times, they might come across as deceptively innocent in their apparent fantastical simplicity.

Would a little package of deceptively innocent-looking whistles be better?

Though her filigree doodles of deceptively innocent-seeming flora and fauna were a fixture on the downtown gallery scene a decade ago, the artist Simone Shubuck has had only one solo show in the last six years — in 2009, at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago.

The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype "Internet in a suitcase".

In one newspaper, the exiled Iraqi author Walid al-Kubaisi said Ms. Seierstad had deceptively played "an innocent female journalist".

Narayan's writing, deceptively simple and seemingly innocent of literary technique, is distinctive for its voice, its fusion of the comic with the sad, and its philosophical depth.