Mr. Fischl's credo suggests a kind of aesthetic ingenuousness that can lead to unending grief.

WSJ: Book Review: Bad Boy

She can make ingenuousness seem noble, by expressing a powerful will to find the best in life.

NEWYORKER: Sunshine Cleaning

Perhaps she was afraid I might have inherited the fatal ingenuousness of her sister, Miriam, my mother, who died in a concentration camp in Poland, having been handed over to the Gestapo by her so-called "protector".

NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

But always alert to the danger of modern overinterpretation, she notes the ingenuousness, the innocence inherent in such frankness and, given how little his readers seemed to be aware, she wonders no more how much Melville understood himself.

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