loss of innocence
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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
Trefry adds that it’s also “about the loss of innocence and coming of age and how you are changed and ruined and saved by these formative events that happened in high school.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2023
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
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.
