Both tell what is fundamentally the same story, of innate goodness emerging triumphant from under oppression, but they do so to very different effect.

She believes in happy ever afters and the innate goodness of every person.

Batman admits to himself of a respect for Superman's innate goodness and wonders if, in a different reality, they could have been friends.

Happily, they had been blessed, given that particular father, in having Meg for a mother, she with her plain, innate, old-fashioned goodness.

To show innate goodness, Mencius used the example of a child falling down a well.

He understood this to be an inner light, an innate moral goodness and understanding of what is good.

Chris and others unfortunately believe in the innate goodness of Man.

There was an innate goodness in Alan she wasn't sure she had.

And innate goodness, Jack reasoned, must have its own power over evil.

There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind.