"innocence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She's terrified, but compelled by the mating rituals of man in his primal innocence.
- A week later, hunters killed the lion; its 7-week-old cub, all floppy feet and sweet face and primal innocence, got a television spot.
- Through all of this, the protagonists seem to drift in an aura of primal innocence.
- While the painting seems to express an Arcadian vision of primal innocence, it could also be a wry comment on the rise of tourism in the south.
- He had seen primal innocence in those eyes, and a promise of resurrection.
- Eleanor Agnew's lovely memoir of this movement of primal innocence is at once honest and hilarious.
- There even exists a subculture (the dream apes) whose ancestors bred out the capacity for speech and some of the higher brain-functions, apparently in order to attain a primal innocence and rapport with nature.
- The characters and incidents are light constructs meant to support a yearning for a return to some primal innocence; unfortunately they more often evoke childish wistfulness, a much shallower emotion.
- But because the women play with such sincerity and enthusiasm, they bring rock back to a primal innocence that is nearly extinct among their peers in the United States.
- Campbell, musing on the appeal of clowns, suggests that children see in them reflections of a primal innocence.
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