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the way of the world

NOUN
  1. the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen
    the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world
    she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil
    he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world

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  • I felt, in reading your unreproaching letter to her, as self-reproachful as anybody could with a great deal of innocence (in the way of the world) to fall back upon. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
  • While many follow the way of the world by loving their friends and hating their enemies, Jesus carves out a new way: "Love your enemies, bless those who curse you" (Matt. 5:44).
  • Concepts like martyrdom, which might seem to be shared with Christianity, are quite differently inflected, because based on a much more ready acceptance of the way of the world than on world rejection.
  • But this is the way of the world, that when a man or woman sings more tunably than his fellows, those about the fire fall upon him, pell-mell, for reason of their envy. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
  • Hi, well, I am not surprised. But obviously austerity, notwithstanding what's going on in Luxembourg, austerity very much the way of the world as far as Europe is concerned.
  • No longer will power be held by the privileged few who dictate the way of the world.
  • the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world
  • But consumerism is a world language and, allied with representative democracy, it is the way of the world.
  • An entrepreneur must understand the way of the world.
  • What once was terrifying or alluring is now just the way of the world. "The courage of the coward— greater than all others."
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