The phrase
"lost innocence" refers to the state of losing one's purity, naivety, or ignorance about the harsh realities of the world. It often occurs when someone is exposed to experiences or knowledge that shakes their belief in goodness or disrupts their trust in others.
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This oblique and understated tale
of lost innocence conveys both an individual's experiences and a powerful sense of a ruined nation.
The teens
lose their innocence when they become involved in the corruption and seediness that exists about their town after its leading citizen, the town judge and the town sheriff begin working on the latter's re-election campaign.
And Russell Tyler, in his solo at DCKT, deployed vats of paint to construct blocky abstractions based on the elemental 8 - bit graphics of early computer games, endowing his paintings with the sense that they are «as much
about lost innocence as they are about lost technologies.»
In modern dating, there are limitless ways to reject and be rejected, and no childhood fairy tale nor mythical creature is safe
from losing its innocence...
Thomas McCarthy's «Spotlight» and Lenny Abrahamson's «Room» carry on their shoulders the disturbing thought of
children losing their innocence; albeit from alternate viewpoints.
Yet, sometimes the world is simply cruel and random — and the little town of
Ebbing loses its innocence and optimism for no good reason.
The Magnificent Esme Wells is a twisted take on the American dream, laying bare Esme's struggle to achieve her dream
without losing her innocence along the way.
She conducts you from the kaleidoscopic moment when a
toddler loses her innocence to the last breath an old man takes in a rowboat at sunrise.
This palpable sense of
lost innocence brought to mind the words of Don McLean's «American Pie» song, which I turned into the cartoon above.
Now New York has
lost its innocence there are plenty of alternative US destinations but LA's gravitational pull is irresistible.
I know little about Benjamin Britten, but 20 minutes of googling taught me that he's quite the complicated and brilliant composer and personality, who, like the movie, is all
about lost innocence.
Araki's use of colour and light makes every shot radiant and shimmering, while the ambient soundtrack heightens the haunting theme
of lost innocence.
Also, Love146 steers clear of terms like «
lost innocence,» «defenselessness,» «hopelessness» and «helplessness.»
Now, as a young woman, she wonders how
she lost her innocence.
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our return to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it.
Slavery and other forms of
lost innocence can only survive when they aren't discussed.
When an animal experiences deception - awareness it mistrusts the other; it has
lost its innocence and is initiated into the possibility that others may be untrustworthy.
to hand me a movie that syncs perfectly with my worldview, but I thought there was a missed opportunity to talk about these ideas — failing your children,
losing your innocence, even the different ways parents handle sons versus daughters — with more depth than it did.
I didn't expect Blockers to hand me a movie that syncs perfectly with my worldview, but I thought there was a missed opportunity to talk about these ideas — failing your children,
losing your innocence, even the different ways parents handle sons versus daughters — with more depth than it did.
At some point, though, they will
lose their innocence, as we know that everyone sins.
But
we lose our innocence, and we lose our freedom to love.
But we need to realize the cost associated with prizing
our lost innocence.
Not to
lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey; that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.
Through the tube, we are
losing our innocence.
Losing our innocence every 10 minutes seems to be the new national pastime, and today's New York seems to consist of the rich, the help, the destitute, and a whirlpool of distraction to keep you from noticing.
The moment that kid yelled something at the Astros,
he lost his innocence.
And when the Dodgers left Brooklyn,
we lost our innocence forever.
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 40 % of singles selecting it in their top five most attractive books.
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.
a nice guy from the suburbs who doesn't remember when
he lost his innocence; but who has retained a dry sense of humor and respect (no pets) likes larger (wolf - like) dogs
It is a tale of
lost innocence, absent fathers and rites of passage.
There is no exception in the case of The Neon Demon, Refn's tale of
lost innocence and foreboding caution in the glamorous world of young models.
By the time it is over, he has tested his friendships, fallen in love, and
lost his innocence.
Annie Hall has
lost its innocence, but not its brilliance.