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Example sentences for: ingénue

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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.
Marie recently made her début as an ingénue in a risqué, avant-garde cinéma-vérité movie which used advanced montage techniques, was hailed as a tour de force and became a succés de scandale.
The ingénue, Leonora, is drinking again, toasting herself in the mirror and praising the loveliness of Nature--a Nature that will, of course, destroy her.
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.
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.