To be sure, the YERT film team -- led by former engineer Dixon and Off Broadway performers and veteran actors Julie Dingman Evans and Ben Evans -- is no stumbling act of innocents.
The Quiet American (Philip Noyce 2002) Greene's Saigon-set imbroglio of love, politics and war returned to the screen in style thanks to the edgy double-act of "innocent" agent Brendan Fraser and world-weary correspondent Michael Caine.
Defenders of the act spoke of innocent black men on death row who had been exonerated and shared deeply personal experiences with racism.
"This act of killing innocent children does not have Islamic and humanitarian justifications".
In an act of either innocent or diabolical self-promotion, which amount to the same thing here, Lillian's cousin Raisele plants the seeds of discontent.
Whatever his diagnosis and motive, Major Hasan committed the irrevocable and the immoral act of destroying innocent lives.
Creakily filmed and woodenly acted, "Trade of Innocents" is an agenda-driven drama (Ms. Sorvino serves as a United Nations good-will ambassador for combating human trafficking) that spells everything out in flowery, moralistic speeches.
The act of killing an innocent being feels — and will always feel — neither wholly wrong nor wholly right.
"The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms this senseless act of terror against innocent youth," Obama said in a written statement.
The conversion, he said, demonstrated God's mercy and how one might turn from what he described as "the ultimate act of violence against innocent life in the womb to a position of total holiness and pacifism".
Casey recognized that abortion is, fraught with consequences for the persons who perform and assist in the procedure [and for] society which must confront the knowledge that these procedures exist, procedures some deem nothing short of an act of violence against innocent human life.... Casey demonstrates that the interests asserted by the state are legitimate and recognized by law.
