ingenue
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His previous feature, 2016’s love-it-or-hate-it loony toon “The Neon Demon,” was a modeling industry semi-satire that featured beauties quite literally gobbling up their ingenue competition.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
I’d love to see this film’s ingenue, Monica Barbaro, ascend to their ranks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Rachel is taken with Gustav’s films, and the director sees a familiar spark of brilliance in the young ingenue.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
Andrea the acorn-headed ingenue getting her own back.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
He also courted strong and straight — and unavailable — alpha men to whom he appeared happy to play the beta role of political ingénue.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 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
Pickett explains: "I wasn't really interested in her being an ingénue."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
She also found she was referencing the arc of an ingénue in a Jennifer Blowdryer book she nabbed in Silver Lake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024
The invasion of Parliament, or what almost amounted to an invasion, was an affair of far greater importance than the abduction of an ingénue.
From Garrick's Pupil by Auguston Filon
Instead, the ingénues were cast in lead roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Ms. Hunt said she begged studio executives to end her run of dewy-eyed coeds and romance-minded ingénues and give her a better range of parts, even if it meant a drop from marquee billing.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2022
Pre-Code actresses no longer played merely vamps or ingénues, those twin feminine archetypes that dominated the silent era.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
“She’s one of the great ingénues, but she’s fiery, she’s different, she’s got a past.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2019
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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