1. This is no time to have a political ingenue as secretary of state.

2. I don't want any more ingenue roles.

3. For themostpart she was portrayed as a frivolous ingenue whose emotional and intellectual development was gently guided by her serious-minded husband.

4. There is an ingenue air about her.

5. Hearn was no ingenue or racist.

6. But purely as a piece of writing, her memoir noir is an ingenue performance.

7. And at the age of 40, Halle Berry still has the striking good looks of the 24-year-old ingenue who made her movie debut in Spike Lee's film Jungle Fever.

8. She was as simple and pretty as a film ingenue.