Sentence examples for more ingenuous from inspiring English sources
"We're actually looking for the opposite of that, thermal signatures that are more ingenuous," explained Marggraf Turley.
If Mrs. R. hopes that a soft answer will turn away wrath like his, she is more ingenuous than we think.
The relentless appetite for selfies that, in a Kim Kardashian's hands, is belittled can become, in the hands of someone so much younger and more ingenuous and earnest, a reminder that self-showing is not necessarily selfish.
Speakers might be (unconsciously) using more ingenuous ways than their older counterparts to accommodate their declining Min abilities in avoiding the articulatorily challenging [dz]/[z] realizations [cf. Ohala (1983)], as their Min systems might not be as stable.
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Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
Steve Kazee is a far more complicated musical personality than Guy, the ingenuous Irish busker he portrayed in the Broadway musical "Once".
It's hard to know which betrays its decade more, the word "prejudiced" or the character's ingenuous disavowal of it.
One might have expected the co-creator of American Pie to give Cinders a little more spunk, so to speak, but she's relentlessly ingenuous, spouting her late mother's Pollyanna-ish mantra – "Have courage and be kind" – at every given opportunity, and plenty of unpresented ones besides.
Yulia Van Doren, a soprano, was a lovely, ingenuous Manto, with Colin Balzer, a tenor, as her more worldly suitor, Tiberino.
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.
