Sentences with phrase «for lost innocence»

If there is one motif that is common to all forms of romanticism — and here I am speaking of romantic theory and not of the actual poetry of the so - called romantic poets — it is a nostalgia for the lost innocence of a primordial beginning and a yearning for an original and undifferentiated form of consciousness.

If Christianity can be debunked at its very root, then the painful tug of this nostalgia for the lost innocence of fusion in the ancient tradition can be laid to rest: the ghost of Jesus will grant us peace, if only...

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Oh and sadly, someone was foolish enough to marry this and sadly now a child is left in his care to be horribly brainwashed - I feel for the innocence lost.

For my money, I'm very much into this kid losing his innocence just to laugh at how horrible the Astros were:

How some ES cells succeed in recapturing lost cellular innocence and start anew once they begin maturing is described in a forthcoming study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, authored by a team of scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Harper Lee's cherished story of a lost innocence and racial prejudice has long been at the top of «read before you die» lists, and it seems that the book is more lauded today than ever, with almost singles selecting it as the most attractive book for a partner to have read.

Position away, O ye spinners: The good news for all who are not awards voters is that this newer, shorter World — shorter, anyway, in the category of languid movies over two hours — is that it communicates Malick's luminous artistic vision of innocence and loss, wildness and order, risks taken and chances lost, with more clarity than his first cut.

The film, itself, is not always up to Patel's level, but it is mostly competently made, with beautiful cinematography courtesy of Greg Fraser (Zero Dark Thirty), whose opening shots of a little child playing in a cloud of butterflies sets a dreamscape tone for the innocence soon to be lost.

Drawing on a rich tradition of classical American storytelling that runs from Mark Twain to «Shane» to «Stand By Me,» Nichols adopts a 14 - year - old boy's perspective for this affecting tale of innocence lost and grace gained over one woozy Arkansas summer.

Milne, who experienced extreme cruelty under fire on the Western Front, left a legacy of nostalgia for innocence inevitably lost.

But for all its stylistic overstatement, Lore still resonates (albeit mildly) as a story about innocence lost and found.

Yet, sometimes the world is simply cruel and random — and the little town of Ebbing loses its innocence and optimism for no good reason.

McCary's movie feels like it was made especially for me — a kindhearted and uplifting examination of the power of storytelling and how embracing your inner - child isn't a sign of immaturity, but an attempt to reclaim some of the innocence lost in adulthood.

I will hold the innocence portrayed and the innocence lost for years to come.

Our pivotal teenager characters, the sensitive Bottoms, best friend Bridges, and rich - bitch Shepherd, who comes between the boys for a time, may each lose their virginity, but they are so unfulfilled and confused that their rites of passage signal more the death of youth and innocence than a new - born maturity.

The key sources for the screenplay are Mark Millar's «Old Man Logan» and Craig Kyle's «X-23: Innocence Lost.»

Many of her books also center on themes of secrecy and fragmented families, of lost children or of lost innocence; this last a key focus of A Spell of Winter which won the Orange Prize for fiction in 1996.

«Where the Innocence Project lost credibility with me was in trying to put blame squarely on the shoulders of forensic science,» says John M. Collins, emeritus Forensic Science Division director for the Michigan State Police.