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Example sentences for: edenic
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After an Edenic prelude, in which a boyishly idealistic absent without leave soldier, Pvt.
An article mocks "cosmic capitalists," the geeky techno-entrepreneurs who wear shorts, repeat the word "vision" like a mantra, and prognosticate madly about the world's information-rich Edenic future.
While such island societies might seem less than Edenic, the early Hawaiians led a pleasurable life, singing their own histories to the beat of gourds, riding the waves on long wooden surfboards, and developing an elaborate, graceful form of story-dance, the hula.
In his book, Jacoby deplores what he characterizes as a sort of fall, from the Edenic condition of what he calls "classical American intellectuals" born at the turn of the century--Lewis Mumford, Dwight Macdonald, and, inevitably, Edmund Wilson--to the generation born after World War II, whose intellectuals, he claims, have all retreated into academia, where they have lost themselves in a thicket of specialized professional jargon.
So Jan Morris's readers are free, perhaps encouraged, to think of a writer's labors in mythic, cosmic terms as part of post-Edenic compulsion.