Word: guileless
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...Catherine and sisters Lenny and Alma explore a wilderness that mirrors their own sexual stirrings and confusion. The woods are dark, deep and haunted by both Christian and pagan spirits. A character named Parson flits in and out of Phillips' story as a sort of Fundamentalist avenger. Nature comes guileless in the person of Buddy, a knowing child of the forest, and Nature comes sinister in the form of Buddy's father Carmody, a backwoods pervert who would not have been out of place in James Dickey's Deliverance...
Metcalf is even more startling in her other role as Oswald's ranting, self- justifying mother Marguerite. Although she created a monster, she blames everyone else; in this through-the-looking-glass world, she may have a case. Rick Snyder's Jack Ruby is a guileless goof, jitterbugging with nervous / vacuity, forever asking the strippers at his nightclub if he is effeminate. A Mob intermediary tells him he will be a hero if he kills Oswald. He is, instead, another dupe. Malkovich rightly considers this an unfinished work. It is full of intriguing moments, but it is more confusing than...
Some days, guns are just a defense against boredom that comes from a lack of guidance and direction. Asked to name a single hobby, Doug, who is remarkably guileless for a gunslinger, is stumped. He concedes the craziness of him and his classmates shooting at one another, but wonders how it could be any different. "Parents just don't understand that everything has changed," he says. "You can't just slug it out in the schoolyard anymore and be done with it. Whoever loses can just...
...swivel chair (he has a tendency to tip too far back in it), he starts mastering the other instruments of power as well. Budget reform, an improved day-care program, a bold new jobs program, even the banishment of corruption -- all these he achieves by the simple assertion of guileless right thinking. He even manages to woo Mrs. Mitchell (Sigourney Weaver) out of the separate bedroom and angry silence into which her real husband has forced her to retreat...
...promise of sexual favors sounds as natural as a gift for home cooking. It's not a tease, it's a forthrightly bountiful offer that could set a fellow to swooning. Dolly's giggle, the chirp at the end of a sultry line, proves that her sensuality is guileless -- a neat blend of Daisy Mae and Mae West...