she was an easygoing, guileless young woman who was comfortable just being herself
Recent Examples on the WebThe story itself is familiar, but director Gillian Armstrong instills it with jittery whimsy and lead Jo Kennedy projects a skewed, guileless charisma.—Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 23 Apr. 2024 Teenagers are not the guileless consumers this program sometimes suggests: these people understand that cheap clothing is bad, and yet the desire to be perceived as cool will always take precedence.—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024 Plus, his guileless public persona didn’t square with his shrewd business sense and competitiveness, something that rubbed studio executives and power brokers the wrong way.—Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024 And was there ever a more perfect person to play this guileless, sweetly kooky role than Fred Armisen?—Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024 The whole idea of a tourist attraction built as a guileless ode to love, and shrine to a Slovak poem, may strike you, at first blush, as defying both rhyme and reason.—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024 Her baking lesson, given with nervous kindness, along with the generosity of guileless Wayne and wiser daughter Scotty (Sienna King), soothes a wary Munch, who talks of having to eat the bitter sins of others.—Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024 DeBose is more stoic, her character guarded but also somewhat guileless.—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024 Folks seem to love themselves some Gypsy, a young Louisiana woman with a high voice and seemingly guileless personality.—Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2024
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