How To Use Prelapsarian In A Sentence
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The same condition is true for ‘Photos of a Salt Mine,’ in which prelapsarian innocence must yield to the reality of the fallen world.
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A yearning for its own prelapsarian state was built into punk's ethos.
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Adam's naming of the beasts in Genesis 8, recalled by Milton in Paradise Lost VIII: 352-54, evokes the power of prelapsarian language to connect the mind with creation.
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Jim's conviction that ‘some memories are realities’ is infused with a deep, nostalgic longing for a prelapsarian past, a time before disillusionment.
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Maybe heatwaves worked better in this prelapsarian era, for today they are nothing but ghastly.
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In keeping with his prelapsarian innocence, this ideal male is shown without the potentially dangerous sign of his sexuality.
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These were - so the pamphlets alleged - a radical sect during the English Revolution, whose most striking tenet was that the attainment of a sanctified state involved the adoption of the prelapsarian nakedness of humanity's first father.
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In a sense, then, Traherne agrees with Sidney's contentions, that a poet can show an objective - golden and prelapsarian - world.
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It was as if pure form represented something innocent and unspoilt; a prelapsarian state.
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The elves constantly hark back to an earlier, prelapsarian world.
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On the one hand, the works contain neither persons nor artifacts that would establish a human scale; they evoke a world - prelapsarian or post-apocalyptic - divorced from human perspectives.
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With his belief in humanity as a state to be attained rather than granted, Overton considers political reformation crucial for regaining our prelapsarian humanness.
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In the refrain of ‘poem,’ the speaker embraces the world of experience: she is adamant that she ‘shall never go back’ to the innocence of the prelapsarian state.
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They examine the creation of humanity: on the level of the prelapsarian situation, and on the level of postlapsarian conditions.
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Nevertheless, the road opened amid a kind of prelapsarian optimism.
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In happier, prelapsarian times he would have inveighed against their hypocrisy.
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Bruno doesn't know why he learns so quickly - "My father never quite lost his touch of aboriginal uncouthness" - but under the tutelage of an autistic janitor and a very liberal-minded cognitive psychologist named Lydia Littlemore, he emerges from his "prelapsarian nudity" and enters the world of conscious thought, "the awesome thaumaturgy of mere language.
Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love
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Bruno doesn't know why he learns so quickly - "My father never quite lost his touch of aboriginal uncouthness" - but under the tutelage of an autistic janitor and a very liberal-minded cognitive psychologist named Lydia Littlemore, he emerges from his "prelapsarian nudity" and enters the world of conscious thought, "the awesome thaumaturgy of mere language.
Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love
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Remember that prelapsarian age when you gave things your undivided attention?
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To the extent that the freedom of prelapsarian man survives the fall - and Milton is ambivalent about this - so does his end, which is not to found and hold office in republics, but to serve God out of the care to please him.
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In the prelapsarian situation, the existence of sexual distinction was unnoticed.
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The perfectly blue, puffy-clouded sky and bitsy little silos make for a prelapsarian vista only slightly altered by humans.
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One must not identify it, say, with the pure, prelapsarian humanity favored in medieval accounts of the incarnation.
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But other early monastic texts hold out the hope of a different, nonviolent, world, one that restores the prelapsarian harmony between human beings and animals.
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In some cases, God infuses the artificial property-relations that we call dominium with sufficient grace to make them generally equivalent to prelapsarian dominium.
John Wyclif's Political Philosophy
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Once these burdens had been lifted by the redemptive power of revolution, it would be possible to construct a free and equal society based upon the prelapsarian goodness of human nature.
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There are two blissful, muddied, prelapsarian moments when it isn't occupying your mind.
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This would have taken us back to that prelapsarian state of regional rail companies.
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Its warm sea - an invitation to swim rather than a test of stoicism - its beautiful beaches and its year-round temperate climate seem like a prelapsarian idyll.
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Neo-illiberals belong to a venerable strand of nirvana thinking: the prelapsarian school.
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