Sentence examples for in its ingenuous from inspiring English sources

It is a brilliant remark, for it sums up, in its ingenuous way, one of the meanings of her story.

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.

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.

The world depicted in these books has been criticised latterly for its ingenuous depiction of middle-class family life, but in their time the books were radical in their departure from the rarefied boarding schools and boating adventures that had been part of the prevailing idiom of children's literature.

Our first intentions considering the common interest of Truth, resolved to propose it unto the Latine republique and equal Judges of Europe, but owing in the first place this service unto our Country, and therein especially unto its ingenuous Gentry, we have declared our self in a language best conceived.

There's no cage strong enough for the sheer brute strength of Jackson's movie, a muscularity matched by its ingenuous love for the great beast himself.

Flattering, gossiping, or otherwise saying something just to fit in is as ingenuous as it gets.

Once again, de Botton's desire to teach at all times, and his refusal to consider practical needs smaller than abstract ones — just as he wanted Proust to change your life, he now wants Baudelaire to help you endure airports more easily — makes his writing not only shapely but somehow ingenuous and lovable even in its wildest flights.

Whatever kind of musician he is, or isn't, Simcock remains zealously committed, in his ingenuous way.

Back in 1975 "Shampoo" was a farce, a Hollywood sex comedy with Warren Beatty as its promiscuous, ingenuous hero.

The show also parodies Broadway's penchant for extravaganza with its own ingenuous narrative shorthand.