Sentences with phrase «longing for the innocence»

The popular media content pitched to our children as kid stuff derives from the over-sexualized, violent, bad dreams of the middle - aged who seek only to neutralize their longing for the innocence of childhood.

First, there is simply its undeniable element of Edenic nostalgia: that longing for innocence, guileless play, the terrestrial paradise — a longing it both evokes and soothes.

Not exact matches

I could no longer hear, for example, a song like «Blowin» in the Wind» with the same sort of innocence that muddled the Biblical and Historicist hopes together.

For Long, there's the cost of the lawyers as well as the emotional anguish (regardless of guilt or innocence, this sort of trial must weigh heavy on the accused).

Right now, you are convinced that the world is a place of delight and love and warmth and comfort — I long to protect this innocence for as long as I can.

Taylor made the crass remarks during a radio interview, in which he was talking about Evans» decision to maintain his innocence after being convicted of raping a 19 year - old girl in Rhyl, comparing the former Welsh international's situation to the families» long fight for justice:

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.

This film causes audiences to laugh, cry and long for the blithe innocence of childhood.

Kerry Washington doesn't get much dialogue to work with, but her presence is soothing, her innocence going a long way in evoking empathy for she and her husband.

Now nine years after his release from prison, his innocence long forgotten, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted.

She is also the author of A Few Fair Days (1971), a collection of short stories for children set on a Cumberland farm, and two novels for teenagers: A Long Way From Verona (1971), which explores a wartime childhood in Yorkshire; and The Summer After the Funeral (1973), a story about a loss of innocence after the death of a father.

One of the key artists of the collection, Jansson Stegner adopts tropes of Romanticism to portray contemporary longing, as female police officers crouch on rocks and tree stumps, batons substituted for parasols in their hands, trading their usual authoritative glance for a classical erotic innocence.

Mr. Grabel has long fought for the rights of his clients and strongly believes in the rights of all people accused of a criminal offense, he is proud to support the Access to Justice Fund, The Innocence Project and Proving Innocence, a Michigan based organization fighting to free the wrongly convicted.

Naughton, explaining his reasons for pulling the plug on INUK, said that it was «no longer acceptable that hundreds of students around the country can say on their CVs that they are working with an INUK innocence project when they know next to nothing about INUK or how to work on an alleged wrongful conviction cases».

«I think the idea of investigating and trying to pursue the route that we know works and that has worked for a long time, protecting the presumption of innocence but at the same time ensuring the safety of the public, is the criminal law route.»