ingenue

How To Use ingenue In A Sentence

• Pink swirled over the white sheath dress, which billowed into a taffeta 1950's ingenue's gown.
• The supposed intimacies within the group begin to break down when Carla - the artsy ingenue - is brutally attacked after receiving a poetry award.
• This is no time to have a political ingenue as secretary of state.
• A young Rita Hayworth, then being carefully groomed by Columbia, gave the part of Nina much more than a simple ingénue reading.
• How better to see Jennifer Hudson, whom Washingtonians get to see quite often in the Obama era, after dramatic transformation from "American Idol" reject to Oscar ingenue to family-tragedy survivor to Sunday night's Versace va-va-voom presence. Looks that can't deceive
• These are the old-time climbers that take out the ingénues, teach them to tie knots and pick up trash, and while they're at it, facilitate their protégés’ discovery of the namaste.
• She's not a complete fashion ingénue and has always had lots of clothes. Times, Sunday Times
• Since the avant-garde relies upon subversive strategies of asyntactic, if not asemantic, expression, such writing often seems to resemble the nonsense produced by either the unskilled or the illiterate, camouflaging itself in the lousy style of the ingénue in order to showcase the creative potential of a technique that less liberal critics might otherwise dismiss as a fatal error — a flaw that, at the outset, discounts the work from any further reading because it has already forfeited the values of both official grammar and sensible meaning. Writing and Failure (Part 3) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• Her roles moved from ingenue to slut, and from spinster to "the first lady of fright."
• A guy described me in a magazine as a young ingénue who's desperate for a record deal, and it was just so gross.