ingenuousness
Example Sentences
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Perhaps my cynicism about Mr. Witkoff’s curious mix of ingenuousness and rapacity is unfair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
Still, inside the story he weaves, Burshteyn makes Romeo an absolute darling, with an ingenuousness that parents swoon over.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2022
“If you look at our shantytowns, there’s an ingenuousness in the way people make do with cardboard, with scraps of metal. There’s color to it. There’s life.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2019
Assayas looms in “Clouds of Sils Maria” as the last director, the last creator, whose successors, the special-effects adventurers—sensible, capable, strong, self-aware—will repackage his humanistic earnestness in the spirit of perpetual adolescence and ingenuousness.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 16, 2015
Their confidence must be tenderly won, and their innocent desires gratified, while every slyness is quietly shown to be as unavailing as it is disagreeable, and every movement towards ingenuousness cheerfully and lovingly encouraged.
From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet
