Gone was a certain innocence that she would never be able to regain.
"Everybody writes their first book with a certain innocence, a purity of vision," she said.
"They have lost a certain innocence now, though, haven't they?"
"We walk through life with a certain innocence," he said.
They were blue, and death had not robbed them of a certain preternatural innocence.
There was a certain innocence about the political corruption of those days, don't you think so?
He manages to capture a certain innocence of that era.
These projects work well together, since both have a certain childlike innocence.
There was a time, well within the memory of most Americans, when one approached meals with a certain innocence.
"It's so cinematic, with a certain innocence that has not gone away," he said.