The plays are often characterized by sexually charged banter, "swaggering masculine energy," and a superficially innocent heroine who is nonetheless alluring.

These tragic Blessed Virgins appear in early scenarios as beautiful and innocent heroines whom questers should help.

You have broken the heart and spurned the affection of the innocent heroine.

The innocent heroine is no longer wooed at a harvest festival in the vineyards by a woeful Germanic aristocrat.

Her mother cajoled, "Maria, you play the beautiful, innocent heroine to perfection.

The woman who triumphed so frequently as a sweet and innocent heroine insists that playing a vamp would have been far easier.

Settling into Lecter's point of view would make us murderers; much better to be the frightened, innocent heroine.

And La Chanze, who plays his wayward girlfriend, a onetime prostitute, proves no less beguiling in the role than she was as the innocent heroine of "Once on This Island."

His innocent heroine, Charlotte, arrives at Dupont University (an amalgam based on Wolfe's research) from a God-fearing hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains.