I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.

To attack Pike directly would gain Woodruff little, for as a penniless newcomer Pike had nothing to lose.

Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.

By the end of the book, Paul realizes that he no longer knows what to do with himself and decides that he has nothing more to lose.

" It ends in death, and sets the stage for an album populated by rogues, con men, outcasts, gamblers, gunfighters and desperados, many of them with nothing to lose, some of them out of their minds, all of them quintessentially American.

As William of Champeaux assured Henry V, he had nothing to lose by surrendering the right of investiture.

According to Smith's grandnephew, Van Buren said to Smith, " Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you ; if I take up for you I shall lose the vote of Missouri.

The Padres went on to lose that game, and the one that followed, even though the Milwaukee Brewers had been eliminated from the pennant race and had nothing left to play for.

That, and the fact that they had nothing to lose other than the most tolerant and broadminded gay place in town, explains why.

* The beginning lines of Rodgers and Hart's 1939 song " Give it Back to the Indians " recount the sale of Manhattan: Old Peter Minuit had nothing to lose when he bought the isle of Manhattan / For twenty-six dollars and a bottle of booze and they threw in the Bronx and Staten / Pete thought that he had the best of the bargin but the poor red man just grinned / And he grunted " ugh!

The proletariat have nothing to lose but their chains.

Simon felt that he had nothing to lose.

Stevenson himself made fun of his " egghead " nickname ; in one speech he joked " eggheads of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your yolks!

A variation on the gentlemen's agreement is the gentlemen's bet, wherein there is nothing to win or lose through the bet, other than the honor of winning and shame of losing.

We have nothing to lose.

Sedaka protested that Francis would be insulted, but Greenfield said that since she hated all the other songs they had performed, they had nothing to lose.

It may have been to warn other staff or prisoners, to let them know they should be on their guard since a death row prisoner has nothing to lose and could be violent.

Since UA was barely alive, Pickford saw nothing to lose and agreed.

" With nothing to lose, Joe accepts.

Which is so much the less to be disallowed of, for that the prince doth lose nothing by it, the gentleman being so much subject to taxes and public payments as is the yeoman or husbandman, which he likewise doth bear the gladlier for the saving of his reputation.

I felt there was really nothing to lose by being absolutely direct with him, and he appreciated that .</ p >

Other alleged discoveries, such as the construction of early Roman history out of still earlier ballads, have not been equally fortunate ; but if every positive conclusion of Niebuhr's had been refuted, his claim to be considered the first who dealt with the ancient history of Rome in a scientific spirit would remain unimpaired, and the new principles introduced by him into historical research would lose nothing of their importance.

Although he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.

" ... Conrad argues that " nothing is more foreign than what in the literary world is called Slavonism to his individual sensibility and the whole Polish mentality "

* On February 24, 2012, in a speech in Nabi Sheet for the " remembrance of the fallen martyrs Abbas al-Musawi, Ragheb Harb, and Imad Mughniyah ," Hasan Nasrallah said, " I say that the American administration and the American mentality lacks nothing from Satanism.

" Yes, there is a slave ( and master ) mentality in Africa, but nothing like the dehumanized institutions that Frederick Douglass had to fight in America.

Weaver W. Adams, whom Grandmaster Larry Evans described as having an " all or nothing " mentality, famously claimed that the Vienna Game led to a forced win for White.

" It also comments on what the writers believe to be the " all or nothing, we're right, you're all going to hell mentality " of some Christian movements.

According to them, Neo-Catholics often support a " reform-of-the-reform " mentality which, they say, is the belief that there was nothing wrong with the Second Vatican Council or the changes to the Roman Missal stemming from that Council, but rather that small clarifications to the documents and an authentic interpretation or " hermeneutic of continuity " are all that is needed to retain orthodoxy.

Bart ( Bob Hoskins ) is a vicious loan shark whose method of persuading men to pay him back involves Danny the Dog ( Jet Li ), a man with the mentality of a child ; only if a metal collar around his neck is removed by Bart will he become a violently skilled fighter who stops at nothing to take down his targets.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

It was to be nothing more than that.

On the truck bed there was nothing smaller than a piece of rusty machinery ; ;

She was wearing nothing beneath the coat.

There was nothing in particular on the man's face.

They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.

It was nothing more than a tiny distant rain squall, a dull gray sheet which reached from a layer of clouds to the earth.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

His reply was, `` Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned ''.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

`` There was nothing else I could do '', the maid answered, satisfied with a rather vague explanation.

Nothing was said, nothing accomplished.

She reached and reached around the dress, but there was nothing there.

his supper was nothing.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;

The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.