loss of innocence
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Perhaps, as with other technology, it brings a loss of innocence.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
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
“The novel is very much about the loss of innocence of these children. Aaron has made it also about Atticus’ loss of innocence.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2022
More than the loss of innocence, it was the wanton destruction of innocence that most concerned him thematically.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2022
Consequently, the death with which he had been threatened must have been a moral death, loss of innocence and joy, experience of guilt and woe.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
