ingénue
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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 last verse, and the album's closing words, are addressed to pop music's next young ingénue.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
Kelli O’Hara and Adam Guettel had the inkling more than 20 years ago, when she was a Broadway ingénue, working on what became her breakthrough Tony-nominated role in “Light in the Piazza.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
She was the celebrated, the perpetual, the necessary ingénue, who with all her talent couldn't have represented a woman of her actual age.
From The Tragic Muse by Henry James
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
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
The roles she most loved are the ones she aged up for and did not look like an ingenue.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024
Andrea the acorn-headed ingenue getting her own back.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
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 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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