Garden of Eden
Britishnoun
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In 1994 the Hollywood film “Rapa-Nui” rendered the mythical apocalypse into a technicolor epic of ecocide and cannibalism in which the Garden of Eden was destroyed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
“Swag II” closes with “Story of God,” a nearly 8-minute track in which Bieber narrates the tale of the Garden of Eden against a backing of churchy keyboards and reverbed gospel wailing.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
It could have been the Garden of Eden, so rich was the promise of paradise.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2023
Not since our expulsion from the Garden of Eden have we, as a race, felt as guilty as we do today.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023
But it’s in Paradise Lost that he’s to be found in properly blistering form—first as the defeated general rallying his troops in hell, and later as the tricksy serpent in the Garden of Eden.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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