| He works hard at depicting the guileless young Dantes with a headful of notions about honour and duty, and you can tell he's working hard. |
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| She's a cunning manipulator one moment, an adorably guileless charmer the next, one who tosses off winsome smiles like strike-zone fastballs. |
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| The prelate indicated that even his own guileless grandchildren may become despoilers of the planet unless today's adults act responsibly. |
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| It seemed like a heavy responsibility to place upon an innocent, guileless ukulele. |
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| And Elizabeth is about the most innocent, guileless, angelic little girl you've ever met. |
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| She has a frank and guileless style of writing, letting the incredible subject matter remain the focus, rather than any shabby poetic frills. |
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| It was the innocent, guileless laugh that normally only the young could make. |
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| The piece mourned a guileless innocence Linke fears modern society has lost. |
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| It's a candid, troubled, guileless record that obviously throws its own maker for a loop. |
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| Indeed, he seems so sincere and guileless he could make ally unsuspecting bloke fall under his sweet spell. |
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| Sometimes I dream of having a leader who has simple wisdom and the ordinary values of plain-speaking honesty and guileless good will. |
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| That the Third World was born guileless and innocent only to be brutalised by the West is a popular slogan in many parts of the world. |
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| Nations have frequently tired of freedom and yielded themselves to tyrants, but not because of guileless trust in false professions. |
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| She is a pleasantly robust woman of modest means, patriotic in convictions, guileless in manner. |
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| He wore a shell suit and the pleasant, guileless smile of a person disadvantaged by learning difficulties. |
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| The guileless McKenzie is of course immune, as he blunders through a palsied old world. |
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| Ever year they spew out a healthy amount of guileless, enthusiastic, hard working feckless idiots, ready to be put to work by their seniors. |
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| He displays a couple days' stubble on his baby face, along with those arched, guileless eyebrows, which seem to certify everything he says. |
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| The apparently mild exterior and the guileless blue eyes mask a single-minded determination to carve out a successful career. |
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| Second, there is a winning boyishness to him – he's serious, intense, guileless. |
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| The country folk in the train spoke a language I was unfamiliar with, but their open, guileless speech and laughter was more beautiful to me than any hymn. |
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| Jonathon was completely open and guileless, much to his own discomfort. |
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| He who can resign himself to the will of the Almighty with simple faith and guileless love realizes the Lord very quickly. |
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| It has great sincerity, and the script is very honest, guileless. |
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| Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. |
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| And then, as in this 1972 letter to James Ivory, he is touchingly vulnerable and guileless. |
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| Reading his letters gives the impression of being in front of a man at peace and guileless, though he does recognize that he has an impulsive nature and is sometimes too demanding. |
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| It puts you in touch with your guileless goals and essential desires. |
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| If the candidates could not be tricked into providing the blood samples necessary for successful transplants, the official went on with guileless candour, employees of the office take the samples by force. |
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| In the midst of mind-numbing horror and devastation, he wrote the simple guileless words, which even today inspire images not only of loss and destruction, but also of hope and renewal. |
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| Once, many years ago when I was a young and guileless law professor, I found myself seated at a luncheon next to a Justice of the Supreme Court Canada. |
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| Nicholas possessed an angelic meekness, a guileless simplicity, and a tender love of virginity which he guarded by prayer and extraordinary mortifications. |
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| In the Pixar films Stanton has guided, the children are mostly destructive and the adults mostly feckless — leaving a moral vacuum that only a guileless doodad can fill. |
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| It is nothing greater or lesser than a personal mix-tape, with all the obsessive fussing and guileless invention that goes into such compilations. |
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| This child-woman lives in the guileless atmosphere of the 50's and 60's. Her jewellery is naïve and graphic: gladiator brooches, cabochon rings, coloured pendants in geometric shapes. |
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| Frank Sidebottom, resplendent in a fibreglass head, shuffled onto the 80s pop scene like a postmodern riff on George Formby or Norman Wisdom, full of guileless chatter and novelty tunes. |
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| I played dumb 'cause I knew if I talked at all, being simple and guileless, you all would twist me up and have the whole thing in a jiffy. |
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| With most of his life behind him, Els is wistful for the romance of youth, the guileless potential of nascent creativity, the mistakes unmade, the frontiers unexplored. |
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| Several observers mention that the environment in which a company downsizes frequently is hectic and, for less experienced companies, somewhat guileless. |
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| Mr. Pinchot, wearing a long-haired fright wig, plays a guileless nut named Bobby McGee who has been struck by lightning and turned into a psychic. |
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