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How the mighty have fallen. Prov. a jovial or mocking way of remarking that someone is doing something that he or she used to consider very demeaning. Jill: Ever since Fred's wife left him, he has had to cook his own meals. Jane: Well! How the mighty have fallen! When Dan lost his money, he had to sell his expensive sports car. Now he drives an ugly old sedan. How the mighty have fallen. a fallen angel a company or sports team that was successful in the past but is not successful now (usually plural) Derby County were this season's fallen angels, being sent into the Second Division after losing all their matches. See also: angel a fallen idol a person who was admired in the past but who is not admired any more Highly respected during his lifetime, he became a fallen idol after his death when his research was found to be full of errors. a fallen woman (old-fashioned) a woman who is not respected any more because she had sex without being married Many fallen women were forced to work as prostitutes, some were shut away in asylums. See also: woman How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This view of the fallenness of man is consistent with traditional Christianity, and finds particular resonance in the thought of St. And while Kassell doesn't seem to be operating from a consciously Christian perspective, she arrives at a Christian place, keeping company with a person perceived to be irredeemable, and honoring both his fallenness and his capacity for redemption. Most critics have analyzed the play through a secular hermeneutic--in which its visionary aspects are written off as dreams and drug-induced delusions--or a conservative religious hermeneutic--in which homosexuality is de facto the realm of fallenness and abomination--and thereby fail to detect the strains of prophecy and Kabbalah which provide a coherent religious cosmology amidst disaster and betrayal. |
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