Sentence examples for is ingenuous from inspiring English sources

For all his showmanship, Robert is ingenuous about his image and his finances.

She has said repeatedly that morality is complicated, and that the presumption of good and evil is ingenuous.

Sometimes he describes himself as "like an itinerant portrait painter," and sometimes as "like Raul," who manufactures plaster santeros for the Bronx botanicas, but that is ingenuous.

But "City Confidential" manages an intimacy that is ingenuous and intriguing, creating the feeling that we may suddenly glimpse something completely unexpected or shocking.

As is customary with Ishiguro, the narrator, Kathy, is ingenuous but keenly desirous of telling us how it was, the prose feels self-consciously stilted and banal, and the psychology is not deep.

Julie Walters gives a glorious performance as her waspish Brooklyn landlady, Mrs Kehoe, and Emory Cohen is ingenuous and likable as Tony, the Italian boy who falls in love with her.

I was ingenuous and young, and I thought so.

They are forever employing phrases that may be ingenuous — or may be canny and ugly.

"I did it quite naturally!" Pedro Almodóvar confirmed that Gaultier's motivation was ingenuous.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing".

He describes someone who was ingenuous yet troubled, boyishly disarming but afraid.