ingenue
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A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
He has the tender, shining eyes of an ingenue while Del Campo, who has a striking birthmark on her cheek, is a femme fatale able to hold her own against Wolff’s selfish, useless playboy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
Her Hypatia, the spoiled ingenue turned rebel, is wild and wayward yet fighting a worthy fight.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024
It was such an ingenue thing to say, and Adina had never played that role.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
For Early it was also a chance to fulfill his longtime desire to play an old-school ingénue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 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
The younger women are the most vulnerable to this idealistic image people have for us to have it all figured out before the clock strikes 30, and we are no longer the young ingénue.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2023
But, as she had to play an ingénue, aged eighteen, in The Great Unknown, she was not quite convincing.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 16, 1890 by Various
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
“I had my 36th birthday on ‘King Kong’ — I was still playing ingénues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
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
“People want women in food media to be ingénues or broads,” she says, adding that she is neither.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 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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