Innocence in example sentence

Peggy Ann Garner plays a scheming young girl (though she is 22 playing 20, she seems too old for the part, and is strangely frumpy and dull) who wheedles her way unscrupulously into affluent company with a pretence of innocence.

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Maybe there's an innocence to it.

Look at the innocence.

Now by taking the biblical epithet "abomination" and attaching it to the ultimate image of innocence, a baby, this joke short circuits the emotional wiring behind the debate and it leaves the audience with the opportunity, through their laughter, to question its validity.

He's absolutely balanced between innocence and experience, and that made me stop in my tracks in front of this painting.

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