Sentence examples for guileless from inspiring English sources

Frank Sidebottom, resplendent in a fibreglass head, shuffled onto the 80s pop scene like a postmodern riff on George Formby or Norman Wisdom, full of guileless chatter and novelty tunes.

Second, there is a winning boyishness to him – he's serious, intense, guileless.

Cherubic and deceptively guileless, she used "humour as a dodge, intimacy as a smoke screen", Ms Salomon notes.

With most of his life behind him, Els is wistful for the romance of youth, the guileless potential of nascent creativity, the mistakes unmade, the frontiers unexplored.

Performed with potent formality by Kerry Washington, whose looks inject a sexual chemistry into the masculine, book-lined set, Susan is the typical Mamet female: ingénue and catalyst, at once guileless and dauntingly powerful.

But if he stays in the debates and keeps getting attention from the press, I think a lot of people are going find themselves surprised by the way the governor's guileless can-do competence sneaks up on them.(Photo credit: AFP).

When still outside Parliament, he made a television programme in which he lured a guileless Mr Hague up a windswept mountain and asked him on camera a question that went something like: "Of course I know what a strong leader you are, William, but how come nobody else sees it?"All these things argue strongly for Mr Portillo to seize his chance after the election, with a fair prospect of victory.

Responsive in conversation, guileless, humorous and charming, he could pass for an idiot savant.

Anxious to transform the prosaic into the romantic, his admirers speak of a poet of light and the poetry of silence.Hammershoi himself was guileless.

Even Stalin, no guileless observer, believed in and, to his later regret, protected Mao.

Na'im, for example, initially appears thuggish, but his militant conviction ends up seeming honourable".So, is there any way to resolve the conflict?" asked one guileless chap during the discussion after the play (to the morbid laughter of other members of the audience).