The best allies of men's dominance have been, quite unwittingly, innocent infants.
By the time of Blake and Wordsworth, Father Time was replaced by innocent infants "trailing clouds of glory," as Wordsworth put it in "Ode, Intimations of Immortality".
The court decided that, although the doctor was innocent, circumcising an infant for non-medical reasons violates Germany's constitutional protection of every person's bodily integrity and should thus be a crime.Cue the sort of controversy Germany hates most, one that offends Jews as well as Muslims.
His piece Baby-Z is a disturbing but strangely innocent representation of an infant fused onto and supported by metal machinery, while Buddha-Z combines elements of Buddhism and the cyborg, borrowing from the structures of temples and figures in Buddhism.
Think of the infant's innocent face.
"On the horizon is the collection of DNA from those presumed innocent, and perhaps even infants," Mr. Siegel said.
You watch while the baby drinks it with the pure, innocent, hungry greed of an infant, eyelids drooping further with each satisfied swallow.
This humility will not solve the multiple problems that confront our nation, once infant and comparatively innocent, but now a nuclear super-nation.
For the Palestinians, who gathered by the thousands for her funeral here on Tuesday, the infant was the innocent victim of what they contend is an Israeli policy of collective punishment, with fierce military reprisals on entire neighborhoods after real or alleged guerrilla attacks on Israelis.
(p. 36) The recent killing of 12 innocent Iraqi civilians, including an infant, by Blackwater private security guards has finally brought some media attention to the murky legal status of the U.S. government's mercenaries in Iraq.
