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

• “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.”

  More on Thursday Night's Israel Lobby Debate in N.Y.

• “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

• “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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• “This novel journeys through the realms of drama and satire, through the tragedy of those who have experienced loss and the ingenuousness of those who treat existence like a circus.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dreamseller: The Calling

• “The Floating Order" also exemplifies the prevailng prose style of the stories in this book, a style that reflects a certain ingenuousness in the characters 'perspective expressed in unadorned language:”

  Experimental Fiction

• “Her face fell with all the ingenuousness of eighteen.”

  CHAPTER XII

• “And she was aware that in his eyes was no longer any of the ingenuousness of youth she remembered.”

  WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL

• “I fancy I see beauties in it, and was thinking of applying to one of our printers to know, if from the locality of it, it would pay for printing (for 'tis a Suffolk piece); but it struck my mind forcibly, that I should stand a Better chance of meeting with that ingenuousness I wish for, by begging the opinion of a man of genius and taste, than by applying to a tradesman.”

  Letter 12

• ““I need scarcely assure you,” he wrote, with something less than complete ingenuousness, “that my nomination … was not only not anticipated, but was wholly unexpected by me.””

  Simon & Schuster: A Country of Vast Designs

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