ingenue
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Naoshi’s pieces usually center around a chic ingenue sporting food-focused fashion — think bonnets made of bonbons and boba tea skirts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 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
And Williamson, at 60, is no longer an industry ingenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
“I don’t know. I don’t have that whole ingenue thing down like she does.”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
For Early it was also a chance to fulfill his longtime desire to play an old-school ingénue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 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
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
And to show you how broad-minded I am, I’ll get her to bring downstairs the sweetest and daintiest American ingénue you’d find between here and Chicago, even if you went by way of Paris.
From Cynthia's Chauffeur by Tracy, Louis
Instead, the ingénues were cast in lead roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
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
Her troupe did such physical work — "we weren't ingénues at all" — that it actually took her years to unlearn larger-than-life stage theater and transition to naturalistic film acting.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2018
“People want women in food media to be ingénues or broads,” she says, adding that she is neither.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2018
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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