Sentence examples for in more innocent from inspiring English sources

Innocuous stuff in more innocent times.

Even when he's recalling journeys taken in more innocent times, Young throws in his recent research, as if in atonement.

In more innocent times, even viewers allergic to his Essex geezer schtick could appreciate his passion for food.

In more innocent days, when Alvin and the Chipmunks needed an authority figure to get something done, they turned to a witch doctor.

Grammy-magnet John Legend played piano for Lauryn Hill and sang backup for Kanye West, who in more innocent times made beats for Jay-Z.

I dealt with it by not listening to Morrissey any more, confining myself to the Smiths records I had loved in more innocent times.

The other "lifters" I spoke to rooted their semi-stripteases in more innocent-sounding motivations, such as male bonding.

"And he may not have spoken about certain specifics in the same way, but partly that's because he lived in a more innocent time, in some ways.

It's usually seen as a drug song, although according to his biographer Thunders in fact wrote it in earlier, more innocent times for the French model/actor/musician Fabienne Shine.

Let's face it, there are only so many ways to interpret an image of a young girl, half-nude, wrapped in a sheet; but in some ways, the image is, in fact, more innocent than, say, the shots of Ms. Cyrus that circulated on YouTube just a few days before the Vanity Fair story broke.

Thurber's original short story is a byword for salaryman fantasising (in a more innocent era), while Kaye turned in a landmark comedy performance in a 1947 Technicolor classic.