ingenuousness
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Perhaps my cynicism about Mr. Witkoff’s curious mix of ingenuousness and rapacity is unfair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
As in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” earlier this season, the soprano Golda Schultz’s voice was silky and mellow as Anne Trulove, Tom’s put-upon girlfriend, and she managed to project innocence without ingenuousness.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2022
“If you look at our shantytowns, there’s an ingenuousness in the way people make do with cardboard, with scraps of metal. There’s color to it. There’s life.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2019
Shadowy figures have long hung around the fringes of power in many nations; but rarely have they done so with the ingenuousness and transparency of those I’ve been considering.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2017
"They did not deceive me, this is innocence itself, the most perfect ingenuousness united to the most seductive grace and beauty."
From The Barber of Paris by Charles Paul de Kock
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