guilelessness
Example Sentences
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Instead, she approaches the exercises to test her fitness with a guilelessness that at first confounds him — but that ultimately impels him to confront his own tumultuous existence.
From New York Times
“She had this irresistible guilelessness, which I appreciated because you so often see performers who are terrific, but really it’s just a bag of tricks,” recalls director Michael Mayer, who ushered the Broadway breakthroughs of Sutton Foster and Jonathan Groff.
From Los Angeles Times
Hsieh’s authenticity, her guilelessness, is “what makes her so unique and so great to work with,” Whittington said.
From New York Times
His guilelessness melted my anxiety.
From New York Times
Even if we take them at their word that they’ve never heard these songs, even if we accept their raves as genuine, we may still note that exaggerating their guilelessness and throwing a little extra sauce on their wowed responses is good business, part and parcel of the reaction-video gig.
From New York Times
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