ingenue

As always, the ingenue was a docile, saintly (with one slip) place-holder, but Elena Shaddow, who was the girl in The Light in the Piazza did her level best with her, and has a lovely, clear voice.

Fanny deliasherman 2010

As always, the ingenue was a docile, saintly (with one slip) place-holder, but Elena Shaddow, who was the girl in The Light in the Piazza did her level best with her, and has a lovely, clear voice.

Fanny deliasherman 2010

But you can bet they're wishing that their ingenue was a little less ripe and a lot more bashful:

Snow What? A Too Ripe Star. 2008

Fifty years ago, that stage was the Met, the opera was Don Giovanni, and the ingenue was a 19-year-old soprano from the Bronx, Roberta Peters.

Remarks At Presentation Of Medal Of The Arts Ceremony ITY National Archives 1998

For me, getting away from playing the ingenue is a tremendous relief, because they're so shallow and they have no texture or depth, no lines to their face, and as a result they can be rather bland.

WalesOnline - Home 2011

All exquisite, pineapple pants included, but the Laker's hat "ingenue" gets the prize!

sweating to the oldies 2008

As with Gestalt psychology's famous figure of the vase that is also two faces in profile, or the "ingenue" who can turn into a "hag," the alternative reading lurks — and becomes startlingly obvious once the figure-ground system is reversed though a perceptual shift.

'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006

From several her lines, it's clear that in many ways she still sees herself as some kind of ingenue, even though she's in her early forties.

Archive 2007-09-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007

Only there will be a new 'ingenue' in Miss Malone's place.

Harlequin and Columbine Booth Tarkington 1907

Alice Eve, the kind of ingenue who makes your socks go up and down.

Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local < 2010