Sentence examples for be a fallen from inspiring English sources
I was in Providence that summer to watch him fight the charges that led to his second conviction; Cianci's attitude–I may be a fallen human, but how about this rising city?
Silent sisterly characters follow the woman and tend to her as she tells of tripping on a dead body that turns out to be a fallen tree and confides details of her husband's supposed infidelity.
Nazzari flees to America (we find him in a sad, cramped barracks full of other exiled Neapolitans, working for an entity called American Railways Ohio), and Sanson is thrown out of their house by her mother-in-law, who believes her to be a fallen woman.
In the tale he would eventually weave round her, she was an educated Victorian farmer's daughter who claimed to be a fallen woman in order to shake off the conventions of her time.It is hard to exaggerate the stir that "The French Lieutenant's Woman" created when it came out in 1969, at a time of great social, political and sexual upheavals.
Lord knows it was difficult enough to be a woman in Victorian England, but to be a fallen woman – as MOTVR points out, glumly – was to suffer the contempt of a society so un-down with the concept of empowerment that its response to a prostitute giving evidence at a high court trial couldn't have been less enthusiastic had it just been propositioned by a talking moustache.
In some you can see tiny distant people passing through marginal urban areas like pilgrims in paintings by Bruegel; a sleeping or possibly dead man wrapped in an orange sheet on a wet, vacant industrial lot might be a fallen Icarus (Johnson).
