23 examples of ingénue in sentences

as she herself declared, "it has reached the point that when I see a turkey coming to the dinner-table to be carved I can't help treating it as an ingénue.

The component elements of The White Rook (CHAPMAN AND HALL) may be summarised in the picturesque argot of Army Ordnance somewhat as follows: Chinamen, inscrutable, complete with mysterious drugs, one; wives, misunderstood, Mark I, one; husbands, unsympathetic (for purposes of assassination only), one; ingénues, Mark II, one; heroes, one; squires, brutal, one; murders of sorts, three; ditto, attempted, several.

He narrowly misses the misunderstood wife (now a widow, thanks to his kind offices), and his failure to bag the hero and ingénue (together with a handful of subsidiary characters) is only a matter of minutes.

But before that happened, he wanted to see life with a large L; and Cousin Whitaker gave him a good start by introducing him to little ingénue Liane.

Tartuffe was the after-piece; but neither the spirit and perfection of the acting, nor the pretty face and plump shoulders of Elmire, nor the soubrette's dimpled arms, nor the ingénue's innocent eyes, nor the noble, witty lines that filled the theatre and roused the audience to fresh attention, could stir his spirit that hung entranced on the lips of a tragic heroine.

He was taking this confounded journey to witness an amateur performance of a Shakespeare play, when he loathed traveling in hot weather, detested amateur performances of anything, particularly of Shakespeare, on the millionth of a chance that Antoinette Holiday might be possessed of a tithe of her mother's talent and might eventually be starred as the new ingénue he was in need of, afar off, so to speak.

There would come a season when the public would begin to count back and remember that Carol had been playing ingénue parts already for over a decade.

Slight as Max Hempel's hope may have been that Laura LaRue's daughter was to prove the ingénue he sought, infinitely slighter was Dick Carson's hope of ever making Tony his wife.

He has had his eye out for a new ingénue for a long time.

Ingénues do get oldat least older you know.

" [Illustration: "Are you a real ingénue, or a kidder?"] Kalora leaned back in her chair and laughed.

Are you a real ingénue, or a kidder?" "I hardly know what you mean, but I assure you that here in Morovenia they laugh at me because I am not fat.

The hall is at least a protest against the wearisome stories concerning wills, misers in old castles, lost heirs, and the woeful solutions of such thingsshe who has been kept in the castle cellar for twenty years restored to the delights of hair-pins and a mauve dress, the ingénue to the protecting arm, etc.

INGÉNUMENT, d'une manière ingénue et naïve.

" "You admire an ingénue.

Isora est sur le lit assise, jambes nues; Son oeil bleu rêve avec des lueurs ingénues; L'aïeul rit, doux reflet de l'aube sur le soir!

But, as she had to play an ingénue, aged eighteen, in The Great Unknown, she was not quite convincing.

I question whether she was an ingénue at all, but, if she were, she was an ingénue of great and varied experience.

I question whether she was an ingénue at all, but, if she were, she was an ingénue of great and varied experience.

This timidity of his explains his fear of being duped by the ingénue of Limoges, as well as his mistrust of the man who made rough draughts of his letters, instead of writing them off-hand.

"The others, whatever their nameMarianne, Élise, Henriette are about the same ingénue, orDorine, Nicole, Toinon about the same soubrette.

" Marivaux excels in his portrayal of the ingénue and of the coquette, but perhaps no rôle is more sympathetically developed than that of the young widow, now tender and yielding like Araminte of the Fausses Confidences, now vivacious and positive, but no less kindly, like the countess of the Legs.

'What will be the result?' SIMPLESSE, Simplicité ingénue.

23 examples of  ingénue  in sentences