(1) The crucial additional feature of his nature, however, was that the apparently guileless charm was accompanied by a razor-sharp shrewdness.
(2) He is without a doubt the most guileless and gauche politician I have ever met.
(3) These horrors are undeniable, but the use of memoirs intended to distance their authors from Nazism by depicting Hitler's clique as contemptible reinforces the sense of Germans as guileless victims.
(4) We don't associate the slipperiness of memory with the guilelessness of youth.
(5) So Katherine Parkinson, four years in shoulder-pads as guileless office manager Jen in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd (and outfitted pretty identically for her role as maitre d' Caroline in recent BBC comedy Whites ) is relishing a change of threads for her role in Season's Greetings at the National.
(6) Plus of course to stop smiling that peculiarly guileless smile, the look of a man who’s just been hit on the head with a rock and thinks it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
(7) Still others come out of love, a guileless love for a country they don't yet know but that they hope will be all they've dreamed.
(8) Here, the guileless Rowlf turns WereRowlf; the bloodline goes back to the "Wild Man" of medieval art, a folkloric furry man-beast of the woods that Rowlf makes his own.
(9) Michael Rubinstein, solicitor for the publishers Penguin, was a friend of her father, who persuaded her to take the stand, judging correctly how lucid and guileless her evidence would be.
(10) His appeal was his guileless mien and a left hook that terrified opponents two and three stones bigger than him almost as much as his easily sliced eyebrows shocked sensitive onlookers.
(11) For the guileless pathos of that statement alone, I could forgive Hitchens almost anything.
(12) It's the fundamental Cage paradox: the guilelessness that makes his performance.
(13) I looked into his guileless, headteacher's countenance.
(14) Second, there is a winning boyishness to him – he’s serious, intense, guileless.
(15) Then the naughty boy can run rings round nanny, explaining, all guileless innocence, that he wasn't playing with the toys, just with the box.
(16) There is an endearing guilelessness to Criado-Perez.
(17) Her odd combo of artiness and artlessness, and the way she came across in interviews – at once guileless and guarded – made her a target for music-press mockery.
(18) The way he enthuses about film is guileless, like a kid.
(19) Simon Cowell is musically irrelevant” – not even Walsh himself could have mistaken the outburst for anything other than guileless insecurity.
(20) She seems gawky and guileless, a galumphing work in progress; “more goose than swan” in the view of New York Times critic AO Scott .
Gullible
Definition:
(a.) Easily gulled; that may be duped.
Example Sentences:
(1) These private providers take more than a fifth of fees in profit and spend even more on marketing to cover up the poor quality of what they are offering – subprime degrees not worth the paper they are printed on being sold to very young, very gullible consumers .
(2) As a consequence, he's the go-to guy for a scathing quote on dissembling theologies and their gullible believers.
(3) Bailey hits back, telling Russell that he is displaying "a degree of gullibility" that is "not consistent with your role".
(4) Generally, the victim never reports that they have been a victim of fraud to the police because they are too ashamed of their own gullibility.
(5) It's in this "gap" that W1A 's comedy is located, but it's also where many real-life professionals ply their trade, bamboozling the gullible and the desperate with their bewitching neologisms, barmy suggestions and bizarre leadership tests.
(6) Remember you're human after all While much of the above are technical solutions to prevent you being hacked and scammed, hacking done well is really the skill of tricking human beings, not computers, by preying on their gullibility, taking advantage of our trust, greed or altruistic impulses.
(7) And what was this intended to prove (other than, perhaps, some nebulous point about the media’s gullibility )?
(8) I'm not advocating dumb gullibility, but it is has always amused me that those who instinctively dislike Apple for being apparently cool, trendy, design-fixated and so on, are the ones who are actually so damned cool and so damned sensitive to stylistic nuance that they can't bear to celebrate or recognise obvious class, beauty and desire.
(9) • Russell was also accused of "a degree of gullibility" , after saying he still believed the investment banks advising the government had given good advice.
(10) Internally, however, they are frightened, timid, self-doubting, gullible, inconsiderate, vulnerable to erotomania, and cognitively unable to grasp the totality of actual events.
(11) You can’t blame Puerto Rican politicians for thinking that they can keep their constituents in the dark: Puerto Rico’s political history is all about assuming that we Puerto Ricans are gullible and foolish.
(12) There appears to be an unlimited supply of gullible celebrities willing to deal with the Sunday newspaper's undercover reporter: earlier this month he caught the snooker player John Higgins allegedly offering to throw matches for money.
(13) I hope Cameron is not going to be as gullible to swallow bland assurances by [president) Dmitry Medvedev and [prime minister] Vladimir Putin or be so eager to please that he fails to raise the important human rights abuses in relation to Magnitsky and [Mikhail] Khodorkovsky."
(14) "I was joking," he says, rolling his eyes at my gullibility.
(15) Granted, the new Newsweek is hoping to pass itself off as the old and real Newsweek, but, really, that is less its fault than the fault of the gullible.
(16) As for Bissinger, he is now beating his chest about his own pathetic gullibility, in a way that curiously seems to mirror the grand mea culpa that Armstrong will perform on Oprah.
(17) We have already agreed that blame game is widely spread encompassing Greenspan, gullible international governments, inadequate regulation resulting in overindulgence by the consumer and business in terms of over-borrowing," Buik said.
(18) There is evidence that Philip Hammond, the least gullible of defence secretaries, is starting to cleanse the Augean stables of defence spending.
(19) They were so wrapped up in their righteousness that they did not notice that the state was thanking them for their gullibility and seizing the chance to lock down and shut up.
(20) It turns out that the joke is enough to support not just a movie but an entire industry, because tired parents are everywhere now, and they've never been more anxious… or gullible.