Sentence examples for straightforward innocence from inspiring English sources
Every children's story that works at all begins with a simple opposition of good and evil, of straightforward innocence and envious corruption.
THE appeal of child actors is deceptively straightforward: They embody innocence or the shock of its loss.
At the same time, America has become more like the South, with "its defiant innocence and straightforward pieties, and faith in expiation".
The wry clarity of its language makes its innocence seem straightforward, yet Erich Kästner wrote his novel in 1929, when Germany was shadowed by the rise of fascism.
That part of the story constitutes Making A Murderer's first episode, but the show's title – not to mention the fact that every contribution from Avery is spoken down what sounds suspiciously like a prison phone line – betrays the fact that this is not the straightforward exoneration story the Innocence Project was hoping for when it started looking into Avery's case.
The common dynamic when a prisoner protests his innocence is one of straightforward claim and counter- claim: the convicted says he didn't do it, the government says he did.
But determining the guilt or innocence of Ongwen is less straightforward than the reams of evidence gathered by the prosecution may suggest.
But if I had been able to talk to her I would have reassured her that the Vanity Fair article -- which was very straightforward and made no judgments about her innocence or guilt -- would have no bearing on her adjudication whatsoever, which it didn't.
He was kind and had a childlike innocence about him, but he had difficulty understanding easy, straightforward tasks and directions.
