Gone was a certain innocence that she would never be able to regain.

"Everybody writes their first book with a certain innocence, a purity of vision," she said.

"They have lost a certain innocence now, though, haven't they?"

"We walk through life with a certain innocence," he said.

They were blue, and death had not robbed them of a certain preternatural innocence.

There was a certain innocence about the political corruption of those days, don't you think so?

He manages to capture a certain innocence of that era.

These projects work well together, since both have a certain childlike innocence.

There was a time, well within the memory of most Americans, when one approached meals with a certain innocence.

"It's so cinematic, with a certain innocence that has not gone away," he said.