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
Perhaps, as with other technology, it brings a loss of innocence.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
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
Both your feature and your short featuring Julija are films about the loss of innocence.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2022
To eat his bread in sorrow and the sweat of his face was, we are apt to forget, the first sign of man's loss of innocence.
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon
