The punishment of these comparatively innocent parties is actually more severe than that inflicted upon the more guilty.
What degree of longing might lead a comparatively innocent woman to accept a stranger in her house?
When all raise their arms high at the end, these dancers make their predecessors look comparatively innocent.
And thus the transition is easily made from a comparatively innocent and unconscious formalist to a conscious and studied hypocrite.
The Baudelaires, however, are beginning to question their own nobility and morality and so they answer that they are "comparatively innocent".
A comparatively innocent and sensitive soul like Gurgeh was bound to pick up some of its underlying ethical framework if he spoke it all the time.
This last class included, not only the most desperate and utterly abandoned villains in London, but some who were comparatively innocent.
"You are comparatively innocent, my dear," she admitted, with an air of satirical indulgence.
It is putting a very severe punishment upon the comparatively innocent at times.
But in the comparatively innocent world of the 40s and 50s, we have to wonder whether she could have envisaged the potential trouble such an idea could foster.