And I'm amazed that you had difficulty with my use of the term "globalist", which was innocently used to refer to the globalisation of international trade.
"Is there a legend connecting him with the town?" I asked innocently at the ticket booth for the cathedral museum.
Six years earlier, at the end of a very wet and windy three peaks challenge, a friend had innocently asked "what next?" and without hesitation I had said: "Let's cycle from London to Cape Town".
But the participants in a meeting at the society earlier this week, innocently entitled "Origins of AIDS and the HIV epidemic", might have been forgiven for thinking that they could hear sighs of relief from the other side of the Atlantic ocean.
The ship's Captain Vere must then choose either to punish Billy with death the lawful penalty for his crime or save him, in the knowledge that the young man was innocently defending himself.
How very unfortunate that Dr Seuss, whose verbal pyrotechnics have given so much pleasure to so many children, should also have given them, however innocently, the ghastly label "nerd".The precise meaning of the word (in its post-Seuss sense) is hard to pin down, as David Anderegg, a child psychologist and academic, argues in this thoughtful and warmly sympathetic book.
A state school in Kuwait, for instance, abruptly expelled a ten-year-old Egyptian child who had innocently asked why there was no revolution in the emirate.
Father Hejmo has said the allegations may spring from his innocently passing information to a man he calls M, whom he believed to be working for the German bishops' conference.
WITH the nation's black, red and gold banner being brandished joyfully, but innocently, by countless football fans who are delighted to be hosting the World Cup, Germany gives the impression of a country which has finally laid to rest the ghosts of its past.
Through them he surveyed the cultural, social and ethical fallout from the substance he had synthesised so innocently, back in 1951, using diosgenin from wild yams, in the hope it might produce a cure for menstrual trouble.It was the Pill that had unlocked his literary side.
He made the mistake of supplying (possibly quite innocently) a dissident Internet magazine in America, VIP Reference News, with 30,000 Chinese e-mail addresses.
