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

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

If Baudelaire leaves you wondering, quietly, whether the fall of man was set in motion by a dropped banana skin, then Bergson’s offering, entitled simply “Laughter,” ushers us toward a more remedial definition.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2015

Besides, it isn't my affair; ladies' tailors are not responsible for the first fall of man.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul