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
A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
It’s her first substantial, serious part since 2023’s underseen “Reality” and she seizes the opportunity to be talked about as something other than the internet’s most polarizing ingenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
It was such an ingenue thing to say, and Adina had never played that role.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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
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
The eager cosmopolitan ingénue of the film stills is visible only in the rearview mirror.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
"It is not bad, for an ingénue," said Louise, thoughtfully.
From The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan
Instead, the ingénues were cast in lead roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
“I had my 36th birthday on ‘King Kong’ — I was still playing ingénues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 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
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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