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she was an easygoing, guileless young woman who was comfortable just being herself
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Her Sandra can be vivid and elusive, warm and guarded, calculating and oddly guileless.
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Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
Ona’s Tía Pastora is a reader of truths; Tía Camila is an herbalist and healer; and even the seemingly guileless Tía Matilde is blessed with a superhuman capacity for kindness.
—Patricia Engel, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
Whatever Ratmansky’s true feelings about gender politics, there is something guileless about his public statements.
—Alice Robb, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
To be honest once more: As a piece of writing, the book is disappointingly guileless.
—WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
Jerry is a guileless family man with 13 children and eight funeral homes.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
Partly for this reason—and because of his vulnerability in the face of sudden and drastic changes—there’s something innocently pacific and constructive about the furies that emerge from Tomas’s guileless candor and impulsive ardor.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
Evert glanced up and saw a new girl approaching, pale and plump as a dumpling, with a guileless face beneath a mop of hair.
—Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
One of the many artist friends for whom his poor, guileless Mildred served as patron was a struggling young writer named Harold Vanner.
—Jonathan Dee, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
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Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
Ona’s Tía Pastora is a reader of truths; Tía Camila is an herbalist and healer; and even the seemingly guileless Tía Matilde is blessed with a superhuman capacity for kindness.
—Patricia Engel, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
Whatever Ratmansky’s true feelings about gender politics, there is something guileless about his public statements.
—Alice Robb, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
To be honest once more: As a piece of writing, the book is disappointingly guileless.
—WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
Jerry is a guileless family man with 13 children and eight funeral homes.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
Partly for this reason—and because of his vulnerability in the face of sudden and drastic changes—there’s something innocently pacific and constructive about the furies that emerge from Tomas’s guileless candor and impulsive ardor.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
Evert glanced up and saw a new girl approaching, pale and plump as a dumpling, with a guileless face beneath a mop of hair.
—Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
One of the many artist friends for whom his poor, guileless Mildred served as patron was a struggling young writer named Harold Vanner.
—Jonathan Dee, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
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