It highlights two distinct types of bravery: the pluck of the sweet-faced soldiers who are too young and ingenuous to doubt themselves or picture their own mortality, and the nerve of Junger and Hetherington, who had made the deliberate, knowing choice to be deep inside danger.
What keeps Mr. de Haas from seeming mawkish and overly histrionic is his ingenuous trust in total honesty.
In a way, then, "Pages for You" is too perfect a record of Flannery's ingenuous, worshipful, doomed love for Anne: a defiantly, perilously self-contained universe.
The claim is perhaps cagily ingenuous, by a writer often accused of being too cerebral and cool-hearted.
He quotes from countless ingenuous letters from soldiers, and his book is too dignified and understated to signal which of these men will not make it home.
He also points to Maureen Gallace and her deceptively ingenuous New England landscape paintings as another influence.
Complete with a temper ("I get angry, I always have done, too angry"); a jittery sense of right and wrong; a sweet, almost ingenuous eagerness to please.
The show also parodies Broadway's penchant for extravaganza with its own ingenuous narrative shorthand.
