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Moving up and down a single aisle with a discernible deliberateness, Masli projected a persona that was halfway between curious child and ingenuous alien just landed on Earth — that she is among us but not like us is reinforced by her having a golden mannequin leg for a left arm, with a mic attached at the end.

In a fascinating period piece that juxtaposes the ingenuous Peanuts gang with the cynical cast of “Mad Men,” Keane and narrator Allan Robertson reveal the many twists of fate and seeming minor miracles that resulted in the perfect imperfection of a true classic.

She was a "simple-minded, naïve, ingenuous girl", according to her first report.

Devieilhe, with a smooth tone like light cream, gave Constance’s prattling utterances an air of ingenuous wisdom, beautifully balancing Pérez’s tightly wound, self-conscious Blanche.

Heathcliff, of course, is the prime example, growing from an ingenuous child into a glowering adult who spins all the considerable evil ever done to him — much of it based on race and class — into justification for his long game of retribution.