ingenue
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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
Pickett explains: "I wasn't really interested in her being an ingénue."
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
The actress and former professional ballet dancer Sarah Hay, who played the damaged ballet ingénue Claire Robbins in the 2015 mini-series “Flesh and Bone,” said she drew from her own experiences while shaping the character.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 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
I question whether she was an ingénue at all, but, if she were, she was an ingénue of great and varied experience.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 16, 1890 by Various
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