Similarly, Kenneth Koch's almost as famous "Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams" reproduces only a shade too ingenuously the "I'm a poet and you're not" ingenuousness of the original: I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer.
But always alert to the danger of modern overinterpretation, she notes the ingenuousness, the innocence inherent in such frankness and, given how little his readers seemed to be aware, she wonders no more how much Melville understood himself.It is a mark of Ms Hardwick's critical subtlety throughout.
Neither must his ingenuousness be forgotten.
Fourth, charges of ingenuousness have been partly fueled by Xenophon's style.
Exhibiting an ingenuousness and lack of worldly wisdom, he became a tool in the hands of John of Gaunt (1340 99), Duke of Lancaster and a younger son of Edward III, who, from motives less scrupulous than those of Wycliffe, was opposed to the wealth and power of the clergy.
His ethical system contained little that jars in modern terms; but in today's cynical world, the apparent ingenuousness of its expression strikes some as by turns bland and irritating.
His poetry the primary collection of which is A invenção do dia claro (1921; "Invention of the Clear Day")—aims to recover a mythic ingenuousness, while A engomadeira (1917; "The Starcher"), a novel, is a precursor of Surrealist automatism and Nome de guerra (written 1925, published 1938; "Nom de Guerre," or "Pseudonym") is considered the first contemporary Portuguese novel.
He wore his ingenuousness almost as a badge of pride, as other Yorkshire folk are wearing Olympic medals.
As played by Hall, Charlotte is a mix of ingenuousness and coquetry, a femme fatale with a very diffident air.
In Joss Stone's case, this was crystallised by her catastrophic appearance at the 2007 Brit Awards, where her natural ditzy ingenuousness was exacerbated by being delivered in a broad American drawl: from golly-gosh to aaw-shucks, that most unforgivable of betrayals.
She brings a thoroughly appealing mix of ingenuousness and defiance to her role.
