ingenue
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A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
And Williamson, at 60, is no longer an industry ingenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
He has the tender, shining eyes of an ingenue while Del Campo, who has a striking birthmark on her cheek, is a femme fatale able to hold her own against Wolff’s selfish, useless playboy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
Born in New Jersey and raised in Florida, Gigi was a drama school nerd who turned to music when she realised she was "never going to be cast in the ingenue role".
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
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
Then the ingénue from the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders docuseries quit the whole thing—the squad, the hit show and the famous hot-pants uniform with matching white cowboy boots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
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 last verse, and the album's closing words, are addressed to pop music's next young ingénue.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
It seems that our ingénue has remained to play a part in the farce, too.
From The Duel and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
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
And in “Als mir dein Lied erklang,” she was superb, singing with the combination of purity and humanity that characterizes the best Strauss ingénues.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
Sitting next to a casting director as a line of secondary ingénues streamed past, Dan said, “I vote for her,” and she got the part.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 8, 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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