Guilelessness

Definitions

The characteristic of being guileless; honesty.

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Examples

“They'd say⟳ he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite.”

“You have⟳ to give⟳ director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own⟳ novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre. And by blending it with the common YA trope of a young female protagonist who leads the world into a new revolutionary era, they almost get⟳ there—largely thanks to newcomer Nanua, who presents her character’s grappling with complex themes of identity and original sin with a childlike guilelessness.”

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