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
A techno study of the fall of man, R.I.P. shifts through rooms of uniquely realised sound, full of squirming electricity, thudding bass and wisps of static.
From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2012
Yet every reader feels that this is not the whole mystery of the fall of man: moral evil cannot be accounted for by referring it to a brute source.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus
