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 2009

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 2006

'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 1919

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 Samuel Richardson 1725

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 Samuel Richardson 1725

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 Pronzini, Bill 1981

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 2006

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 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

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.

The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782