Sentence examples for deceptive innocence from inspiring English sources
While his contemporaries struggled to regain the gestural spontaneity of children's doodles, Hilton – in works of utterly compelling maturity – brought it off again and again, pouring out images of deceptive innocence: cheeky nudes, bright red sailing boats, circus elephants and blazing suns.
Tyler is the Plain Jane of American fiction, both in style and subject matter, but it is this deceptive comeliness and innocence that appeals to her readers: she holds up a forgiving mirror to Middle America.
The boy soprano Michael Kepler Meo brought a sweet voice and deceptive innocence to the crucial role of the dead son, Arthur.
So does the deceptive simplicity displayed add up to innocence or indulgence?
Where many other online marketers who sold similar products using similar techniques eventually agreed to settle F.T.C. charges of deceptive practices, Mr. Johnson continues to proclaim his innocence.
Music and motion were deceptive in their cumulative effect, their offhandedness possessing an innocence and an easy thrum that diverted us from the cocoon that the dancers spun around us.
Chong Bin Park's sculptures grab your attention through a deceptive simplicity of construction and an all-pervading atmosphere of innocence.
It also produces a mean age, and a percentage probability that the client is over 18. Pretty, the odontologist working with the Innocence Project, argues that the results are intrinsically deceptive.
This was American innocence at its most destructive, freedom at its most deceptive, universalism at its most naïve.
There's a similar sense of disingenuous innocence about some of Pierce's lyrics, a strategy seemingly designed to lure the listener into deceptive acceptance of more complex positions.
