Sentences with phrase «whose innocence»

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Nationally, 10 percent of those whose innocence was proven by DNA testing pled guilty; in Maryland, 40 percent of those who were cleared based on DNA evidence pled guilty.

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This rawly symbolic work is at the same time filled with clichés of the genre, the mysterious, distant «other land,» in this case a wounded, vaguely Eastern Europe, the sullen, withdrawn mad «scientist,» the hulking man - servant, the young couple whose innocence is threatened.

The drama adapted by Alice Birch from the 19th century novel Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk, stars Florence Pugh as a young bride sold into marriage and whose innocence is slowly corrupted by her circumstance and yearning to rebel.

A close second is newcomer Mantis (Pom Klementieff), whose innocence and ability to brush off Drax's insults are genuinely loveable.

Its characters come from a well - worn stock of war movie stereotypes; along with Wardaddy's tough but honourable leader, we have the god - fearing Bible basher (a fantastic Shia LaBeouf), the token ethnic guy (Michael Pena), the brutish redneck (Jon Bernthal) and, of course, the scared newbie, Norman (Logan), whose innocence is eventually corrupted.

With its fixation on red and the appearance of a retarded kid (Noah (Adrien Brody)-RRB- whose innocence is extolled in long drones, it could be about Original Sin.

Only one whose innocence can be undeniably vindicated may, by suffering this sacrifice, reverse it.

If the wise and prestigious members of society will not heed the Gospel, fortunately there are some who will — the simple, the openhearted, babes, as it were, whose innocence is credulous and believing.

We are not only doing this for the 17 students and faculty murdered but also for the youth whose innocence has yet to be shattered by the pervasive terror of gun violence.

Not exact matches

In an interview about the trade sanctions that President Trump is throwing at China and at Corporate America - whose supply chains go through China in search of cheap labor and other cost savings - Ambassador Cui Tiankai defended the perennial innocence of China, as is to be expected, and trotted out the standard Chinese fig leafs and state - scripted rhetoric that confirmed in essence that Trump's decision is on the right track.

It is a moment that joins hatred and innocence, intention and accident; it also occasions a «fall» whose effects ripple outward for 60 years and almost 300 pages.

For in the reality constructed by human imagination, the reality of a thousand national identities, foundational myths, bogus perceptions of «our» innocence and «their» wickedness, who could ever be a judge whose impartiality would be recognized and whose arbitration would be accepted?

None of us were, like the man whose guilt or innocence we were to pronounce, illiterate, poor and black.

Yet a nation whose leaders try regularly to protect its citizens from illusions of innocence will be a nation that other countries can more easily trust and even forgive.

In Mockingbird, the action passes through the eyes of young Scout, whose confusion over the case and rising admiration for her father combine just the right amounts of innocence and awareness.

Still, though, this would mean picking a date on one side of which I would acknowledge a human being whose helplessness and innocence compels all the protection society can provide, and on the other side of which would be a growth requiring no more attention than the nuisance of a minor medical procedure.

A scholar whose work I admire contributed an eloquent expostulation invoking the Holy Innocents, praising our glorious privilege (not shared by the angels) of bearing scars like those of Christ, and advancing the venerable homiletic conceit that our salvation from sin will result in a greater good than could have evolved from an innocence untouched by death.

Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski, whose work can also be seen in the new release The Martian, captures both the frenetic energy and the relative innocence of 1974 New York.

Shining above it all, like a kewpie - doll saint, is Drew Barrymore — whose sweet innocence and sexy romanticism have survived movies as bad as this before

And it's about America's loss of innocence, a reminder of the temptations of quaint and parochial Washington, where the powerful enjoyed and sometimes still enjoy entirely - too - cozy relationships with those in the media whose job it is to hold them accountable to the American public.

Since Elizabeth scarcely can offer a commoner more than foreplay, she takes voyeuristic pleasure in orchestrating a relationship between him and her favored lady - in - waiting, Bess (Abbie Cornish, combining innocence with passionate energy), whose blond curls the queen is fond of stroking.

Stealing the show was Sarah Patterson, a 12 - year old actor whose uncanny balance of childhood innocence and adulthood experience makes The Company of Wolves one of cinema's most memorable coming of age treats.

Broken (Unrated) Loss of innocence drama, set in North London, about an 11 year - old girl (Eloise Laurence) whose life is irreversibly altered after she witnesses a violent attack.

One is struck instead by the gangsters» curious innocence, and by the normative tedium of their existence, from which Gorin manages to invent a texture whose complexity only unfolds itself over repeated viewings.

This symbol of innocence — based upon the daughter of Dr. Martin Foldi, an Auschwitz survivor whose daughter was wearing a red coat when he last saw her — superbly humanises both the plight of the thousands of Jews murdered in the brutal evacuation, but the millions of Jews who became victims of the Holocaust.

This purpose expedites wonderful character development for Paddington, whose delightful innocence reminds viewers of their first piggy banks, to earn enough money to buy the book.

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.

«The Age of Innocence» tells the story of Newland Archer (Daniel Day - Lewis), whose engagement to an innocent socialite (Winona Ryder) binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing.

In a lead role that had been pegged to Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones at various times during the production's development, Findlay combines fresh - faced innocence and a nascent streak of inner steel as Bella, a creature of rigid habit whose world changes after her crotchety neighbor puts her in his sites.

(In French with subtitles) The Song of Sparrows (PG for brief adult language) Loss of innocence drama, set in Iran, about a recently - fired ostrich farmer (Mohammad Amir Naji) whose family becomes upset about how the naïve country bumpkin has begun to compromise his values in order to make it as a taxi driver in the city of Teheran.

This is especially true in the case of John, whose steadfast belief in his wife's innocence is so deep (he never even asked her if she did it!)

At a loss of what to do, Lockhart wanders the grounds, where he meets a teenage girl named Hannah (Mia Goth, The Survivalist), the ward of Volmer, whose wide - eyed innocence belies a reservoir of knowledge about the clinic that seems timeless.

As lush and atmospheric a film as the American cinema has created in years, Crimson Peak stars Mia Wasikowska (whose wide eyes and open face evokes the gothic heroine incarnate) as a smart, passionate American heiress, the daughter of a self - made man (Jim Beaver as the model of paternal affection and American responsibility) and a writer with a romantic streak and an unsullied innocence, and Tom Hiddleston as the dashing suitor from overseas, a handsome aristocrat with a haunted soul whose mystery captures the American's heart.

The film focuses on the Cajun Latour family, in particular Alexander Napoleon Ulysses Latour, whose youth and innocence personifies the virgin wetlands, recalling the figures of Nanook and Moana from the earlier films.

There is variation amongst the indigenous characters: compromised worker Archie (Gibson John) and young «half - caste» Philomac (twins Tremayne and Trevor Doolan), both of whose dialogue is entirely subtitled, offer troubling and complex counterpoints to the wounded innocence embodied by Sam.

It's a minor production with its own charms, notably Cassidy, whose look of purity and innocence gives her sudden flowering passion the rush of sexual awakening, and [Laurence] Fox, whose gives Cecil a sense of self - awareness and a dignity that isn't immediately apparent.

Disturbing Innocence features over 50 historical and contemporary artists whose use of dolls, toys, mannequins, robots, and other surrogates forms a deep and powerfully expressive genre.

Although critics have suggested that Baechler's work, reminiscent of Jean Dubuffet, is a critique of innocence and sincerity, Baechler sees himself as an abstract artist whose concerns are primarily formal, rooted in line, shape, color, and composition.

In this area of criminal law complainants sometimes retain counsel for themselves, not only to ensure their own protection but out of concern for the accused whose presumption of innocence seems to have little practical value — until an experienced criminal lawyers takes over.

Notwithstanding multiple inconsistencies and admitted lies in Scott's statements to police, a complete absence of any forensic evidence implicating Oakes in the crime, and a bloody boot print in men's size 11 whose wearer was never identified, Oakes, who always maintained her innocence, was convicted of second - degree murder.

On a beautiful sunny day Pennsylvania Innocence Project client Lewis James Fogle (whose family calls him Jim) walked out of SCI Pine Grove near Indiana, Pennsylvania, after serving more than 34 years for a murder he did not commit.

On a beautiful sunny day Pennsylvania Innocence Project client Lewis James Fogle (whose family calls him Jim) walked out of SCI Pine Grove near Indiana, Pennsylvania, after serving more than -LSB-...]

Advocate for the release and / or exoneration of individuals whose cases present meritorious innocence claims based on evidence of actual innocence;

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization whose mission includes securing the exoneration, release and restoration to society of persons who are actually innocent and have been wrongly convicted.

A judge this week dismissed a decades - old murder case and ordered the release of DeMarlo Berry, a Las Vegas man whose lengthy quest to prove his innocence culminated after prosecutors reviewed new evidence and identified a different suspect in the 1994 slaying of a Carl's Jr. restaurant manager.

Confirmation bias rears its ugly head, where evidence of innocence is disregarded because it doesn't fit the «truth,» and facts whose meaning is open to interpretation are only seen as confirming that «truth.»

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