Sentences with phrase «kind of innocence»

Suddenly there's a younger tone in his voice, a kind of innocence he's been covering over with hostility.

That she forages for her subjects in her cupboards and shelves and shed is one part of her sense of humour; another part stems from a kind of innocence.

It takes some kind of innocence (or forgiveness) to disregard the mocking intent behind Apollo Creed — or at least to appreciate it guilelessly.

It's the kernel of writer - director Kenneth Lonergan's epic look at the effect that the fall from another kind of innocence --- uncompromising idealism --- has on Lisa Cohen (Anna Paquin) a smart, self - absorbed 17 - year old in New York City, a few years post-9 / 11.

He has another kind of innocence in....

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Reversing the words of the first scene's title, Bergman has moved his principal characters from panic to a kind of knowing innocence.

The reasons for accepting it do not form the kind of deductive proof we require in logic or pure mathematics, but they resemble the arguments used in a court of law to establish innocence or culpability.

And not just any murder, but the most horrible kind imaginable, because of the moral innocence and absolute dependence of its victim.

Uh if I remember correctly her husband was killed by her and lover, and she was protesting her innocence in the what - am - I - doing here - I had - nothing - to - do - with - it - I - swear kind of way.

I think it's related to a kind of sentimentalization and anthropomorphization of the nature of innocence, but it's hard sometimes to look at a dog as a dog, when so much of what a dog does is refracted through the way humans read things and project onto a dog.

That's what I wish for us all as viewers and reviewers this year: that we enter into each movie with a kind of renewed innocence, so that without abandoning our critical faculties we leave a part of ourselves open to chance, fate, seduction, and surprise.

And at the same time, like the best clowns, he watches and listens with fantastic curiosity and a kind of wise innocence.»

First love, young love, unexpected love — any kind of love with a deep vein of naiveté and innocence — this is Rainbow Rowell's wheelhouse.

The point of the comparison is not merely the piecemeal disclosure of hidden facts, nor the process of investigation, but a kind of mental innocence; Sophocles unfolds a cat - and - mouse situation of great horror while leaving the obvious psychological resources of anguish and dread and recurring false hopes strangely unexploited.

Mysteriously, somehow, these paintings (done last summer at Hyon's former studio in Harlem) suggest a kind of necessary decorum, a countervailing innocence, perhaps, used to augment the overall impact of the artist's indulgent obsession with a modular «headcount.»

There many be questions about Avery's guilt or innocence in relation to the Halbach case, but one thing is crystal clear: Avery was the victim of a miscarriage of justice in relation to his first conviction when the Wisconsin police supressed evidence, ignored legitimate leads, and engaged in tunnel vision of the most odious kind.

IPNO handles two kinds of cases: first, cases where a DNA test can prove a prisoner's innocence or confirm their guilt.