Ask him about how he achieves such spectacular effects and he replies in ingenuous fashion that, yes, it was a bit of a struggle.
Jules Feiffer provides an afterword, and in the preface, Roz Chast explains that, while Steig's artistry may have lacked technical virtuosity, he made up for it with in ingenuous spirit, meeting a challenge issued by his favorite painter, Picasso, who once said: "All children are artists.
Flattering, gossiping, or otherwise saying something just to fit in is as ingenuous as it gets.
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.
Sister Carrie was the first masterpiece of the American naturalistic movement in its grittily factual presentation of the vagaries of urban life and in its ingenuous heroine, who goes unpunished for her transgressions against conventional sexual morality.
It is a brilliant remark, for it sums up, in its ingenuous way, one of the meanings of her story.
Whatever kind of musician he is, or isn't, Simcock remains zealously committed, in his ingenuous way.
The movie folds in an ingenuous romantic subplot about the demure pursuit of the team's shy calculations expert, Glenn Latham Tom Longg), by Janine Eliza Szonertthe the sister of the operation's eager-beaver guard, Rudi (Tayler Kane).
Since the huge success of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time there has been a steady stream of novels written in the ingenuous tones of a stream of "damaged" and "different" young people.
For instance, the April issue of American Survival Guide, the consumer magazine of the militia movement, doesn't seem very different in its ingenuous tone and style from an issue of All Chevy or Classic Trucks, which its publisher, McMullen and Yee, also puts out.
Even the Memorial Museum curators cannot say despite the fact that the handiwork of this anonymous master enlivens many of the preserved exhibit artifacts and even in some ingenuous cases are used anew as defining guideposts that echo their original design assignment.
