lapsarian

• Rather than being a story of original purity, with a pre-lapsarian golden age, and a latter day descent into over-intellectualism and then commercialism, jazz was from the start and remains caught in the interstices between art and commerce, elite and noisy crowd. —  New Humanist Podcast
• In the beginning, as it were, was the Eden from which American culture fell, or at least that's the lapsarian myth Mumford's narration (delivered by Morris Carnovsky) spells out. —  PopMatters
• That fall is the source therefore of the fright that has indeed formed a post-lapsarian world. —  Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
• I'm entertained by the strange-bedfellows aspect of Bauerlein citing Jakob Nielsen, a man who basically thinks bullet points are the highest form of writing, in support of a lapsarian story about how the Web is destroying our ability to do serious reading. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
• Sublapsarians (he being a Supra-lapsarian himself). —  The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English

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