ingenue

• “As always, the ingenue was a docile, saintly (with one slip) place-holder, but Elena Shaddow, who was the girl in The Light in the Piazza did her level best with her, and has a lovely, clear voice.”

  Fanny

• “But you can bet they're wishing that their ingenue was a little less ripe and a lot more bashful:”

  Newsweek: Snow What? A Too Ripe Star.

• “Fifty years ago, that stage was the Met, the opera was Don Giovanni, and the ingenue was a 19-year-old soprano from the Bronx, Roberta Peters.”

  Remarks At Presentation Of Medal Of The Arts Ceremony

• “For me, getting away from playing the ingenue is a tremendous relief, because they're so shallow and they have no texture or depth, no lines to their face, and as a result they can be rather bland.”

  WalesOnline - Home

• “All exquisite, pineapple pants included, but the Laker's hat "ingenue" gets the prize!”

  sweating to the oldies

• “As with Gestalt psychology's famous figure of the vase that is also two faces in profile, or the "ingenue" who can turn into a "hag," the alternative reading lurks — and becomes startlingly obvious once the figure-ground system is reversed though a perceptual shift.”

  'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes

• “From several her lines, it's clear that in many ways she still sees herself as some kind of ingenue, even though she's in her early forties.”

  Archive 2007-09-01

• “Only there will be a new 'ingenue' in Miss Malone's place.”

  Harlequin and Columbine

• “Alice Eve, the kind of ingenue who makes your socks go up and down.”

  Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local

• “With dimples like weapons, the star of "An Education" plays a stronger, wiser kind of ingenue Gillibrand Narrows Gap a Bit in Match-Up Against Pataki in New York”

  Politics

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