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guilelessly



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“Emily in Paris” leans hard, at every turn, on the most obvious tropes of the rom-com canon, but like Emily, it does it so guilelessly that what should be grating becomes almost charming.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2021

She does this by guilelessly emulating the images around her, as though she fails to perceive their strangeness, as though they were the most natural thing in the world.

From New York Times Nov. 3, 2021

Instead of trying for coolness, “Blinded by the Light” is guilelessly geeky, virtually exploding in earnestness.

From Washington Times Aug. 14, 2019

Dunaway, bless her, looks at it like a woman who has left the house without her glasses again and guilelessly reads out the only name of a film she can see.

From The Guardian Mar. 2, 2017

Love had never been declared to her so guilelessly, so unreservedly.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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