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“Through what Murray qualifies as his brother's "guilelessness," we get ironic insights.”
“The trouble is, this kind of guilelessness isn't confined to the unfortunate Pole.”
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“As of old in Corcyra, so now in Italy, 'guilelessness, which is the principal ingredient of genuine nobleness, was laughed down, and disappeared.' [”
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
“Henshall reinforces this impression by playing Jerry as a man who proceeds through life in a state of jittery ignorance; he invests the character with the guilelessness of a man who seems oblivious, even to the fact that his own wife may be having an affair.”
“With his disarming guilelessness -- he has no trouble pointing out hypocrisy -- Kalu is a breath of fresh air in the face of the rigid formality and pomp that can sometimes characterize spiritual and religious leaders, and he has been inspiring a growing youth movement.”
“No other actor—except maybe France's Jean Gabin, with whom Tracy is sometimes compared—combined skepticism and guilelessness so effectively.”
The Wall Street Journal: He Made a Career Out of Acting Ordinary
“His guilelessness seemed to say that there was nothing to see here, folks, just Ranger Rick supping on half-digested chunks of low-grade meat.”
“Hemingway, her husband, that Loretta was so innocent a young thing that were it not for her sweet guilelessness she would be positively stupid.”
“Many of the stories are narrated by a child, for whom this sort of low-affect discourse seems well-suited in its guilelessness, but it also has an almost hypnotic effect when applied to damaged adult characters like this one.”
“The hours slipped by, and Fox and Snettishane smoked interminable pipes, looking each other in the eyes with a guilelessness superbly histrionic.”
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