(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 .
Ingenuous
Definition:
(a.) Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
(a.) Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
(a.) Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
(a.) Ingenious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their tempo was better in the second, although there remained the general lack of ingenuity.
(2) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
(3) Britain's success is built on the ideas and ingenuity of those who have come here from abroad.
(4) The economy minister, Arnaud Montebourg, said the government was concerned about Alstom's future, calling it "the symbol of our industrial power and French ingenuity".
(5) He does not have the ingenuity of Diego Maradona or the lawless wit of Luis Suárez, so does not cast spells over opponents, but he has shown that he can certainly help subdue them and uplift his team.
(6) Clean, regenerative energy could provide a way past peak oil and our detrimental fossil fuel addiction – if we collectively had the will to employ renewables, and addressed the change as urgently as the US did during the second world war when we unleashed our scientific creativity and industrial ingenuity to support the war effort.
(7) The UN has criticised these policies , which display none of the ingenuity or flair of the street papers or Housing First advocates, whose methods, while not perfect, have at least been shown to reduce urban homelessness.
(8) Beaumont, wide of eyes and clutching her handbag, has a lovely ingenuous manner, and a reliably crowd-pleasing set, but her brand of comedy is as cosy as a Hovis ad .
(9) It’s when we have untrusted heads of these old institutions that everything seems ripe for revolution – if someone has the guts and ingenuity to really go for it.
(10) "Kodak thanks these industry leaders for their support and ingenuity in finding a way to extend the life of film."
(11) The ingenuity and imagination of health care providers trying to find ways to continue providing high-quality and safe care to patients are being tested daily.
(12) The predilection of such lesions to rupture, with resultant hemorrhage, thrombosis, and distal ischemia, has led to constant attempts at surgical management, including ligation and incision, wrapping, wiring, plasticizing, packing, obliterative and reconstructive endoaneurysmorrhaphy, and a wide variety of procedures both ingenious and ingenuous.
(13) He called his pressure group founded to rid society of the evil of cake 'FUCKD and BOMBD' he described the effects of cake in lurid, pantomime terms that wouldn't have convinced a 14-year-old ingenue.
(14) Steven Gaydos, executive editor of Variety magazine, suggests that, “like Aniston, part of her appeal is her girl-next-door quality, and both … have transitioned from ingenues to mature actresses known for bold artistic choices and broad popular appeal”.
(15) Imaginary United-supporting-me silently approved Sir Alex's ingenuity.
(16) It can take all of a parent's ingenuity to get though a shopping trip without unwillingly picking up a tin of Barbie spaghetti shapes, a box of cereal with Lightning McQueen smirking from the front, or a bag of fruit chews with a catchy jingle.
(17) The common thread running through all of them is that they depend on the ingenuity and time of the local people, and require nothing external.
(18) There is no substitute for the use of intelligence and common sense both in the drawing up and interpretation of a disaster plan; for compromise in dealing with other rescue services; for ingenuity in filling the gaps in the equipment with which you find yourself provided; and, finally, perhaps most important, for self-discipline.
(19) In the next century we will see a serious test of whether or not mankind has lost its ability to foresee and forestall the side effects of scientific and technological ingenuity.
(20) In view of the significance placed upon facial beauty in today's society, it becomes incumbent upon us to recognize the ingenuity and skill of those in the past to gain appreciation for the present state of the art and to provide incentive for improving facial and ocular prosthetic restorations in the future.