fall of man
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Often our reaction to particular celebrity photos plays into an existing narrative: Ben Affleck as a metaphor for the fall of man.
From Slate • Oct. 15, 2020
Why must the fall of man, rather than the survival of woman, still be the main event?
From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2018
Homer told the story of ancient Greece in the “Iliad,” Virgil of Rome in the “Aeneid,” John Milton of the fall of man in “Paradise Lost,” and Alexander Pope of 18th-century England in the “Dunciad.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2017
One can just as well recount a more recent and assuredly secular story of the fall of man.
From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2017
They are one of the very few pleasant things which have survived the fall of man.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles
