Forgiving the Original Sinner Only a matter of weeks ago, candidate Clinton was denouncing Mr. Reagan as the architect of "failed trickle-down economics," the proponent of plutocratic politics and the original sinner of the Decade of Greed.

Humanism was an optimistic philosophy that saw man as a rational and sentient being, with the ability to decide and think for himself, and saw man as inherently good by nature, which was in tension with the Christian view of man as the original sinner needing redemption.

It is a song that the original, indestructible "scintillating sinner," as Velma is billed, owns now and forever.

In these songs, Mr. Kelly isn't just a sinner; he's the original sinner.

Then the Señora Sevadra, who thinks herself elect of heaven for that office, gathers up the original sinners, the little Elijias, Lolas, Manuelitas, José, and Felipés, by dint of adjurations and sweets smuggled into small perspiring palms, to fit them for the Sacrament.

Even if you, unlike the original sinners, are innocent, you must acknowledge that something has gone wrong.

Oranses, home to the original sinners, condemned by the Vatican for their project of introducing communal sentience to every living thing on their planet, every worm, insect, and stalk of grass, thus creating Gaia in all her majesty.

For Nolte, Stalin was the original sinner.

"Ah, yes, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, a lush paradise for those original sinners ... and your namesake."