I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. From LearnThat.org. [Jean Rostand (1894-1977), French biologist, writer.]
We don't think too much about the dollar side of things, I know that sounds a bit ingenuous. From Wordnik.com. [Coming To America] Reference
She expresses all she feels with an ingenuous ardour, at which, the cold-spirited beings stare. From Wordnik.com. [The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"] Reference
The McVeigh who spoke to NEWSWEEK is a more subtle and intriguing figure, at once more clever and ingenuous than his tabloid personality. From Wordnik.com. [The Suspect Speaks Out] Reference
You needn't say 'ingenuous' isn't a real word, because it is. From Wordnik.com. [Priscilla's Spies] Reference
I asked in the most ingenuous tone I could muster. From Wordnik.com. [Handicapping the Saints] Reference
The reply, an ingenuous one, came on the 7th of March. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
They did not believe the ingenuous replies which he made. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The ingenuous Claude was feeling extremely uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
She put her letter in it under the ingenuous gaze of St. Mark. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
That I have such a wife, so obedient, so loving, so ingenuous. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
He began to speak, and ingenuous candour flowed from his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Heigh-ho, Mother's ingenuous approach to life would not work today. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of a Humble Coin] Reference
Recounting this ingenuous social moment, Rushdie laughs mellifluously. From Wordnik.com. [Caught Between East And West, Rushdie Keeps On] Reference
Then, with fine intuition realizing, in the ingenuous face of the young. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
His own story of why he went to England, and stayed there, is ingenuous. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Every ingenuous mind must see in these all the characters of real miracles. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Her manner was modest and ingenuous, and her language indicated much intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
And last, but not least, her ingenuous admiration of his own attractive person amused. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
Catch his ingenuous smile which, when he isn't focused on it, slips into an angry pout. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: An All Too Kobe Christmas] Reference
In the railway-carriage was nothing but gaiety and handshaking and ingenuous questions. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
His manners ingenuous and open-hearted, concealed an imperturbable and calculating spirit. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
Came down to-day, his ingenuous countenance exhibiting signs of passage through an unrestful night. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference
Without conscience, disorderly black squirrels inhabit upper Michigan and scratch the ingenuous sky. From Wordnik.com. [Black Squirrel Poem] Reference
Canon Wrottesley received his wife's statement as to the improvement of her health with ingenuous pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Europeans have always found the United States ingenuous, even dangerously so, when it throws its weight around. From Wordnik.com. [Fears In The 'Un-America'] Reference
That I have got ingenuous children, and that they were not born distorted, nor with any other natural deformity. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
She liked them to show her about the automobile, and she laughed frankly with them -- but she was totally ingenuous. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
The honest sensibilities of ingenuous nature should not be checked by the over-cautious maxims of political prudence. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
At the risk of sounding ingenuous, what's great about shows like these is that you don't have to care the way theater asks you do. From Wordnik.com. [Monica Westin: Performance Art for Everyone! Or, Why You Don't Have to Care About the Cremaster Cycle] Reference
Thus, pertness succeeds to delicacy, assurance to modesty, and all the vagaries of a listless to the sensibilities of an ingenuous mind. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
With alert intuition his sweet-faced auditor believed that she discovered a shadow of vexation in the ingenuous countenance of the reader. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Criminals on trains often adopted what the researchers described as ingenuous tactics in their activities. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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