All 3 Uses of
innocuous
in
The Screwtape Letters
- It is, no doubt, impossible to prevent his praying for his mother, but we have means of rendering the prayers innocuous.
Chpt 3 *innocuous = harmless
- The health and spirits which you want to use in producing lust can also, alas, be very easily used for work or play or thought or innocuous merriment.†
Chpt 9innocuous = unlikely to harm or disturb
- A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where Virtue is concerned "Experience is the mother of illusion"; but thanks to a change in Fashion, and also, of course, to the Historical Point of View, we have largely rendered his book innocuous.†
Chpt 28