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
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
More than the loss of innocence, it was the wanton destruction of innocence that most concerned him thematically.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
He is such a prelate as we know historically in enough instances; but he is pathetic in that simplicity which survives in him and almost makes good the loss of innocence in Latin souls.
From The Shadow of the Cathedral by Gillespie, Mrs. W. A.
