ingenue
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A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Rachel is taken with Gustav’s films, and the director sees a familiar spark of brilliance in the young ingenue.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
He nearly lost a rare gig when the ingenue said he was too ugly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Born in New Jersey and raised in Florida, Gigi was a drama school nerd who turned to music when she realised she was "never going to be cast in the ingenue role".
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
Talent contests and megalomaniac record producers have always paired ingenue wannabes with experienced songwriters, for instance, cashing in quickly on success before the public's appetite for novelty fades.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
He also courted strong and straight — and unavailable — alpha men to whom he appeared happy to play the beta role of political ingénue.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
In these images Sellers—a comic giant at the height of his career—acts as an eager paparazzo chasing after the self-assured ingénue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
The last verse, and the album's closing words, are addressed to pop music's next young ingénue.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
Kelli O’Hara and Adam Guettel had the inkling more than 20 years ago, when she was a Broadway ingénue, working on what became her breakthrough Tony-nominated role in “Light in the Piazza.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Don't talk like the ingénue in a melodrama.
From Miss Maitland Private Secretary by Geraldine Bonner
While the best actress award has often gone to ingénues, the best actor award has rarely gone to men below the age of 40.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
That red carpet had been packed with ingénues and TikTok stars, and Yeoh was surprised when a young girl recognized her and passed her an appreciative note.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
Sitting next to a casting director as a line of secondary ingénues streamed past, Dan said, “I vote for her,” and she got the part.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 8, 2019
Her troupe did such physical work — "we weren't ingénues at all" — that it actually took her years to unlearn larger-than-life stage theater and transition to naturalistic film acting.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2018
She stood before the screen, certain she could practically smell the restaurant, the heavy perfumes of a room full of divas and ingénues.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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