loss of innocence
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Andy and Barbara Muschietti, co-creators of HBO’s prequel drama about Stephen King’s demonic clown, flavor the scarefest with themes of fascism, bigotry and the loss of innocence.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
The lyrics contemplate the fleeting nature of time and the loss of innocence, set against the backdrop of a love affair that's hit the rocks.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024
For MJ, there is a lingering of guilt and shame because Brandi was robbed of what would have surely been happy memories, now tainted by a fundamental loss of innocence, all under her watch.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2024
It all ends tragically, of course, and one finds oneself mourning for the boy’s loss of innocence as much as for the doomed characters.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022
I was now fourteen; it is the misery of man that he arrives at understanding through the loss of innocence.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
