The mean but shrewd critic George Jean Nathan called it her tendency to play girlish innocence with "an excess of calculated purpose."

Ah ... because you might tarnish their girlish innocence?

She smiled in a way that was both full of girlish innocence and seductive allure.

At her first entrance, she conveyed a sense of girlish innocence.

He stared at his mother's face, which, in repose, projected a girlish innocence, and then tidied up the blanket separating the beds.

Sparthera asked in girlish innocence.

Its great cause, other than making money, is the defense of girlish innocence.

She began with a girlish, fragile innocence and ended with a sense of heroic (though misguided) resolution.

I only just managed to project enough girlish innocence to distract him.

The face was the picture of girlish innocence, youthful and angelic-almost the perfect face, she thought.