Sentence examples for fall of mankind from inspiring English sources

Shikasta charts the fall of mankind, from a state of utopian paradise to the hellish conflicts of the modern world.

How can the massager the masseuse wields can continue to buzz this many years after the fall of mankind, no one knows.

Those human beings, however, freely chose to disobey a command of the creator, and the result was the Fall of mankind, which meant not only that the first two humans became subject to suffering and death, but that all of their descendants did so as well.

According to Stanislas, the human 'errantry through the vain and useless signs' of logic is nothing but the necessary consequence of the fall of mankind (in penam peccati sumus necessitati in his vacuis et inanis signis erranter ambulare) (Stanislas of Znoymo, De vero et falso, 1971, 207).[47] With Ockham, the concept of sign becomes a central notion of logical theory.

Psychologically speaking, Adam and Eve's expulsion is, as they say, a "fortunate fall": the beginning not of mankind's damnation but of its liberation; sexuality, after all, is the catalyst for growth.

I like to point to the fact that little kids from every corner or the globe like to spin around until they fall over as proof of mankind's propensity for mind-altering experiences so this entry seemed like a slam dunk.

Reaching heavenward but falling to earth: the story of mankind's mortality and imperfection is older than Lucifer's.

You will not look upon tyranny and injustice in faraway places as the inevitable tragedy of mankind's fallen nature.

The metaphor works on several levels; it represents the conversion and backslidings of the individual soul, as well as the story of mankind from the Fall through to the Redemption and the Last Judgment; there is even a more precise historical level of allegory relating to the persecution of Nonconformists under Charles II.

To distribute oneself thus, as a kind of confetti shower falling upon the heads and shoulders of mankind out of bookstores and the pages of magazines is surely a great privilege and a defiance of the usual earthbound laws whereby human beings make themselves known to one another".

Back in the ring, Mankind received the upper hand after he bent Carlito forward and hooked each arm behind Carlito's back, tucked his head under one of Mankind's arms, and then fell back to pull Carlito down flat on his face which caused Carlito to roll over.