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Example sentences for: ingénue

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For Mamet, however, the core of the piece is Winslow's daughter, a snootily progressive ingénue and a suitable romantic foil for the conservative Morton.
I might have complained that Stiller and Garofalo--who instantly rub each other the wrong way--don't end up falling in love, and that the film pairs Stiller instead with a conventional ingénue.
She's been transformed into a prototypical lovesick teen (even if she's in her 20s), a vulnerable ingénue, a slightly clueless betrayed friend and, most recently, a deranged hussy.
He gently seeks the assurance of a tipsy ingénue (the tremulous Shirley Henderson) that her "little weakness" will not re-emerge.
But since that ingénue is the meltingly gorgeous Claire Forlani, it would take someone more superheroic than I to register a protest.