innocences

Emin – while she brings straight to the surface all the things, including survival, Freudian strangeness, child/adult sexualities and innocences, which go unsaid or remain subconscious in the work of a writer like Carroll – is drawn to the place where meaning and consumption come together, fascinated by the conversation that happens when words and pictures meet, a dialogue most of us come across as soon as we first look at books.

Tracey Emin: 'What you see is what I am' 2011

Denouncing Harriman for endorsing the detested Carter, Schlesinger commits another of his accidental innocences and writes:

The Courtier 2007

Denouncing Harriman for endorsing the detested Carter, Schlesinger commits another of his accidental innocences and writes:

The Courtier 2007

I'd kneel in my Dio priest-throwing jacket and torn jeans, feeling oddly silly but somehow connected with a pure innocences as I decided between the flipping monkey and the pirate's chest.

How To Fix Eeyore, Part One 2003

But Europe had gone deeper-into obsession, addiction, away from all the savage innocences.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Since then I have never met woman so -- so like a scented garden of all the innocences.

The Fortunate Youth 1914

Or he would sit down by that young gentleman's side and shake him out of his little innocences and complacencies, and turn all his little jokes into his own incomprehensible humour.

The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

Its misfortunes, its infirmities, its innocences were counted to it as sins.

The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904

She poured out her very soul; she made revelations of the inmost innocences of her nature to this ambitious, faithful, unimaginative young man.

The Prism 1901

Since then I have never met woman so -- so like a scented garden of all the innocences.

The Fortunate Youth William John Locke 1896