ingenuousness

• “There is a certain ingenuousness to a passage like this (although the novel does not stick exlusively to Famke's implied point of view), but ultimately it works as much to expose the pretensions of Albert Castle ( "Albert seemed very fond of caves") as the "simplicity" of Famke's perceptions.”

  Narrative Strategies

• “He owns, therefore, what it would be to no purpose to conceal; and his ingenuousness is a salvo — ‘Why, this, Madam, is no more than Mr. Lovelace himself acknowledges.’”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “You use an imaginary helplessness with the brutality of a buccaneer, and your ingenuousness is a pistol you put to one's head, crying: your money or your life.”

  The Explorer

• “He owns, therefore, what it would be to no purpose to conceal; and his ingenuousness is a salvo -- 'Why, this, Madam, is no more than Mr. Lovelace himself acknowledges.”

  Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3

• “His ingenuousness is the thing that staggers me: yet is he cunning enough to know, that whoever accuses him first, blunts the edge of an adversary's accusation.”

  Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3

• “Today I wonder how much of this debate I will remember years from now, and wonder if it won't be the moment in which Rashid Khalidi gave Dennis Ross his microphone because Ross's had failed, and then Ross said a little too smoothly he always tried to empower Palestinians, and Khalidi said, with a kind of ingenuousness, "I would give you the shirt off my back, but it's too small.”

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• “Combined with dimples, the same coppery hair and willowy figure as her daughter, and a radiant smile, they gave her a kind of ingenuousness that even six decades or so of living had failed to erase.”

  Hoodwink

• “His ingenuousness is the thing that staggers me: yet is he cunning enough to know, that whoever accuses him first, blunts the edge of an adversary’s accusation.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “Simplicity is a childlike ingenuousness which is encountered when it is not expected; and it is for this very reason that, taking the word in its strictest sense, simplicity could not be attributed to childhood properly speaking.”

  Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller

• “On the contrary, a nation not yet entirely civilized, may have in its Ian - guage a kind of ingenuousness which renders expressions far from being entirely chaste; and I should be inclined to think that these modes of expression, shocking to the decen - cy of other nations, would disappear were a more refined civilization, more precautions in the education of young persons, almost exclusively abandoned to the government of servaiUs, even in the most distinguished houses, and especially were a better example, adopted.”

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