How To Use Ingenue In A Sentence
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Pink swirled over the white sheath dress, which billowed into a taffeta 1950's ingenue's gown.
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The supposed intimacies within the group begin to break down when Carla - the artsy ingenue - is brutally attacked after receiving a poetry award.
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This is no time to have a political ingenue as secretary of state.
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A young Rita Hayworth, then being carefully groomed by Columbia, gave the part of Nina much more than a simple ingénue reading.
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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
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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.
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She's not a complete fashion ingénue and has always had lots of clothes.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Her roles moved from ingenue to slut, and from spinster to "the first lady of fright."
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A guy described me in a magazine as a young ingénue who's desperate for a record deal, and it was just so gross.
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I was never a cheerleader, never an ingénue, never the homecoming queen.
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I watched the series five opener with a Thrones ingénue, which added a certain comic frisson.
Times, Sunday Times
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A sign of how skilful a manipulator of the media she has been is the idea which took hold that she was a helpless ingénue, caught up in a maelstrom out of her control and the victim of a politician with powerful media connections.
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Set in the world of ballet, it portrays Ryder as a former ingénue who is pushed aside for a young starlet.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is no time to have a political ingenue as secretary of state.
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Cast mainly in ingénue roles because of her wholesome appearance, she made more than 20 films in just three years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also in the mix is Viktor, a crusty auteur who is tiring of glitter-eyed ingénue girlfriends.
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New Haven was a feast of fat things—now the young wife in "La Ronde," now the bawd in "Pericles," now a play by Euripides, now by Strindberg, now the leading lady, now the ingénue.
The Independent-Film Character
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We were constantly being wrong-footed, set up, walking into complex traps which they had laid for us, with the intention of making us look like terminally unhip, gullible ingénues.
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Nonchalant references to booms and jibs and kites and cleats and luffs and lees and heeling and tacking and pointing high can leave the nautical ingénue helpless in a riptide of argot.
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Their downfall comes with an attempt to seduce a young ingénue and an older woman.
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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
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If I go on in this part much longer, I'll be typecast as the pert ingenue for the next ten years.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Now, after two decades of acting on stage and in film, Huffman finds her career finally looking good, and at 43 she's getting the attention and opportunities that are too often wasted on smooth-faced ingénues.
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You'll be made to feel an ingénue if you choose to eat a known fish (such as delicious Hake) over some previously unclassified deep sea monstrosity.
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Zoe West , an intrepid ingénue, stripped down to her essence along the Great White Way and was out of the slammer in little more than an hour.
All for the Sake of Art
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In English there is flapper, in French there is ingénue, and in German there is backfisch.
Chapter 11. American Slang. 1. Its Origin and Nature
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While Fall 2009 Fashion Week season is still in its nascent stage -- London, Milan and Paris shows follow in the upcoming weeks and NYC still has a few more days to go -- it seems last season's ingénue has been quickly replaced by an angstier, feistier, more raucous woman.
Susan Cernek: Fashion's Remedy for the Recession
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She has hitherto, in films and plays, always been miscast as the sweet, lovely ingénue.
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Her strong, independent characters have more in common with the sassy broads of 1940s and 1950s Hollywood than the insipid, passive roles generally meted out to today's luckless ingénues.
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They are not doe-eyed ingénues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Slippery slope R , Were you busy hogtying some bewildered ingenue and feasting through a hellish 24 hours of pleasure and damnation……….
A mistletoe moment « raincoaster
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It's more the ultimate rebellion of cutting ties with her past, her youth, her ingénue quality, her sudden fame.
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If I go on in this part much longer, I'll be typecast as the pert ingenue for the next ten years.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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A gamine ingenue to her sophisticated divorcee, she plays this streetwise waif with the same knowing naivety that made the 12-year-old such a disturbingly seductive assassin's helpmate in her first film, Leon.
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His actorly slam-dunk is equalled, however, by half-lidded ingenue Scarlett Johansson, whose sheer unlikelihood as a romantic foil paradoxically renders her perfect.
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The ingénues have magnificent voices but, God, it would be magical if they had personalities to match.
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The terms under which publicists permit their Big Name clients to appear on covers are often so onerous that the bookers are forced to go with the ingénues on the B list.
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The founders were certainly no ingénues, being a mix of aspiring broadcasters and more seasoned radio veterans.
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She's not a complete fashion ingénue and has always had lots of clothes.
Times, Sunday Times
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If I go on in this part much longer, I'll be typecast as the pert ingenue for the next ten years.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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We miss out on the world because we are naive, ingénues who need to be taught everything.
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The slim volume is illustrated with photographs of Bainbridge as a wide-eyed ingenue.
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But anarchy soon arrived in the form of a skinny ingénue insisting on a boy's bag.
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Populated with groovy ingenues, Rat Pack roués, cute animals, tiki gods and the occasional mythical creature, Shag's art, which also pops up on stationery and housewares, is an inventory of the furnishings in the 1960 Modernist ranch that Agle decorated for his wife, theater director Glendele Way-Agle and their two children.
Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
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Now, I am no political ingénue.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were constantly being wrong-footed, set up, walking into complex traps which they had laid for us, with the intention of making us look like terminally unhip, gullible ingénues.
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Now, I am no political ingénue.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is no time to have a political ingenue as secretary of state.
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We do learn that Olive was wild and independent, refusing to live as a shy ingénue.
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We are not dealing with people who are ingénues in the area.
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They're called upon to seamlessly morph from domestic, to squire, to ingénue, to dragoman, to the overtly freakish.
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Visit a museum, and examine the latest works by the hottest young ingénues.
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Along comes Betty Elms, a corn-fed blonde straight out of Deep River, Ontario, trailing the faint scent of Lynch's Twin Peaks ingénue Laura Palmer.
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The woman dressed like an Edwardian ingénue and talked like a mystic, but her accent was what you would hear from some lower-class British shopgirl.
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She was smart and you could see it, even when she was playing the ingénue.
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The woman dressed like an Edwardian ingénue and talked like a mystic, but her accent was what you would hear from some lower-class British shopgirl.
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And so it remains today - still a refreshing alternative to the hollow pop songs of our time and the breasty ingénues who sing them.
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And at the age of 40, Halle Berry still has the striking good looks of the 24-year-old ingenue who made her movie debut in Spike Lee's film Jungle Fever.
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If I go on in this part much longer, I'll be typecast as the pert ingenue for the next ten years.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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He cast a formerly dewy ingénue as the beautiful, shy, artistic young woman.
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Cast mainly in ingénue roles because of her wholesome appearance, she made more than 20 films in just three years.
Times, Sunday Times
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I feel inside as though I am the ingénue student I was at 20, the cool girl living in New York when I was 28, the nest-building just-married of 32 and the new mother of 34.
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Trying to portray herself as an ingénue, lost in the world of politics, came implausibly from the woman who had first fought a by-election as long ago as 1981, before her husband had mounted his first soap-box.
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I've been asked my opinion, then called a woolly-minded idealist, an economic ingenue.
