ingenuousness

“We are transported by the ingenuousness and the originality of the show,” he wrote.

Still, inside the story he weaves, Burshteyn makes Romeo an absolute darling, with an ingenuousness that parents swoon over.

If you can get past that ingenuousness, “American Gadfly” is enjoyable as a chronicle of teenage idealism and its frustrations.

Then she moves to a small microphone and says, in an octave that telegraphs the ingenuousness of an 11-year-old black girl: “I want to share something with you.”

But part of what makes teen girls so good at projecting faux ingenuousness is the fact that, sometimes, their ingenuousness is completely real.