What a short trip it is from innocence to obsession.

His emotional gamut, from innocence to despair, was clearly defined.

This is as good a description of a child's fall from innocence as I have read.

The moment when the boy crosses from innocence to knowledge is central to a number of his stories as well.

You can already see how the theme of the fall from innocence comes out in Melville's childhood.

Over a thousand pages are devoted to the story of her fall from innocence, a weighty event by 18th-century standards.

A good teacher hopes to travel with the student on the road from such innocence to such experience.

It is about a journey of a woman from innocence to a political position mostly meant for men in a male-dominated Pakistan.

Tom stared, then decided that Henry's statement stemmed from true innocence.

Thus, Schubert's song "reflects both the life cycle of the earth and the progress from innocence to experience".