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Female without experience strangely genuine
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ingenue
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n. an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage) the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play
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The ingénue is a stock character in literature , film , and a role type in the theatre ; generally a girl or a young woman who is endearingly innocent and wholesome. Ingénue may also refer to a new young actress or one typecast in such roles. The term comes ...
Usage examples of ingenue.
But if Peony played nothing more than ingenue at the wedding, it was she who took the lead when they returned to Kinnikinick, and she who chose a gold-and-scarlet cabinet to brighten up their cottage, and Professor Planish was so proudly in love that he liked it.
The point was that she wanted -- needed -- someplace where she could get away, someplace where she could set aside the masks, the personas, she wore to deal with other people, someplace where there was no Ingenue, no Dragon Lady, no Vamp, no Professor, just Victoria, just her.
It was the artless gesture of the ingenue, inappropriate for this Rubenesque wife and mother, and yet she had more than enough charm to carry it off.
Rassigart was charmed by this candid young ingenue, and Shina had already adored the Prince for weeks.
Not one of those shy, simpering ingenues all the young lords seem to be looking to these days, he'd just ride right over her.
A great mature male actor shows that although the girls scream after the ingenues, they are nothing yet.
Besides Qwilleran, there were the mayor, the WPKX weatherman, the town's leading photographer, and the ubiquitous Derek Cuttlebrink, plus five attractive women: the heiress from Chicago, the personable young doctor, the glamorous interior designer, the theatre club's popular ingenue, and the chic vice president of the Moose County Something.
Oddly enough, she was in demand for two kinds of television commercials: those that required a sexy, come-hither chickee to peer at the home audience and solicit men for cigars, beer and sportscars-and those that needed a stunning but innocent ingenue to push makeups, soda pop, junior fashions and shampoo.
Her complexion was as smooth as an air-brushed bosom in Playboy, an attribute that made it possible for her to play roles ranging from gosh-wow ingenues to slinky sexpots with equal success.