But without that sense of the tragic, America is indeed "innocent," facing each new test or crisis with a combination of abashed patriotism and that feisty spirit.
That innocents faced with such a draconian choice often plead guilty is not surprising, but it is nonetheless disgraceful.
We commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, yet when faced with a humanitarian crisis of today our country will forever be known as the ones that turned their back on innocents facing persecution.
Google bombing is the innocent face of this.
Sweat sprung from every pink pore in his innocent face.
It's hard to imagine anyone not being moved by the sight of these innocent faces.
Apparently, Ms. Bar Hillel envisions that behind my "wide-eyed innocent face lurks the Angel of Death".
"He had a innocent face and was wearing modern clothes," Sibel Şatiroğlu was quoted as telling the daily Hürriyet newspaper.
But Mr. Wadlington, a sunny young dancer with a broad, innocent face, must have been especially beloved.
Mellman, who is thirty-four, has the innocent face, diffident air, and slightly bewildered expression of someone who has spent long hours at the piano since childhood.
One survivor recalled "the bodies of infants laid in life jackets, and floating around with their dead innocent faces looking towards the sky".
