guileless

Example Sentences

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“Who’s the one in that thing about those rich ladies that kill that guy?” she asks guilelessly, a nod to “Big Little Lies,” one reference to which Comins compared the show during pitch meetings.

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Spalding’s mellow, dancing bass plucks are a sound we know best from jazz, but are totally at home here, and her singing is guileless without being childlike.

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And she sings in a wiry, reedy voice that’s by no means as guileless as it sounds; there’s always an intellectual superstructure.

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He can be shrewd or guileless, bumbling or brave, and he’s adept at signaling both the comedy and the pain of a young man’s search for meaning, identity and adventure in a hostile world.

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That apparent delight seeps into almost every frame, giving the film a guileless warmth that drew my good will.

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