| It would have redefined beauty, and captured the very quintessence of rural innocence. |
| People have this vision of childhood as being a time of innocence and playing dolls. |
| Already the jaundice of cynicism and the jaded bitterness of innocence lost cast their hue over my narrative. |
| With a slow deliberation, she folded it and held it out to him with a playful innocence that made him want to rush over to her and kiss her. |
| She is 22 but her voice is more blighted bud than rose, an emotional instrument that conveys innocence broken on the wheel of restless craving. |
| His narrative is one of unmitigated Spanish rapaciousness and violence and Indian innocence and moral purity. |
