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
And Williamson, at 60, is no longer an industry ingenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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
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
All of the things that make him an unlikely ingénue — the flop sweat, the slight chunkiness, the desire to pass for a cute foodie — click into place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
This woman should be smoking cigarettes in a Parisian cafe, not getting up to the bubbly mischief Van der Velden envisions for her ingénue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
The actress and former professional ballet dancer Sarah Hay, who played the damaged ballet ingénue Claire Robbins in the 2015 mini-series “Flesh and Bone,” said she drew from her own experiences while shaping the character.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
It is wonderful how even the cleverest men can be taken in by that ingénue manner.
From A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel by Ada Cambridge
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
“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
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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