How To Use Weariness In A Sentence

Take heed not to go too far in his dispraise," said Gwion, but in weariness and grief rather than indignation, "for I may not hear him miscalled. His Disposition
I went into the office to find the offender, and saw a worried woman crumpled in a chair in the corner, wearing a look of weariness and doubt.
As one character says here, with desperate weariness: ‘We electrocuted him, gassed him, put him in front of a firing squad.’
It is claimed, probably incorrectly, that in social environments yawning and weariness are due to an accumulation of carbon dioxide.
And a general weariness in having the same conversation about genre versus the mainstream that crops up whenever a young'un who hasn't bothered to read anything published on the internet over the last decade gets the bright idea to write in haphazard fashion about a topic that's like the same piece of gum masticated for a month. [Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen

A hand that trembled slightly brushed against his forehead as if it could wipe away the weariness.
[14] In the Greek, however short the metre and however long the ode, there is no weariness from monotony; for the interchange of anapaest, dactyl, and spondee, in the lines of from only four to six syllables each, makes a constant and pleasing variety. Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets
The men were all very grimy, and their weariness showed in their filthy faces.
The answer to that question had not been arrived at when they dropped asleep, lulled by the sound of rippling water and the _crop, crop, crop_ made by the grazing ponies, and this time their weariness was so great that sleep overcame them both. A Dash from Diamond City
Joining a germinal but growing movement, the soldiers represent that war-weariness and a desired return to sanity in the country.
As the waves lap in think I detect a note of weariness in the endlessly repeated motion.
Like Pope, this American poet loved onomatope and imitative verse, and the last line is a word-picture of home-sick weariness. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
Ceased only that form of service which brings weariness, and have found perfect happiness in the ability to continue service without weariness_. The Mark of the Beast
Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie. Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
If I attempted a race with the boys, I was obliged to give up from very weariness; and laughing at what they termed my laziness, they pursued their amusements without me. A Grandmother's Recollections
He detected a note of weariness in her voice.
His breathing was rapid and shallow and the sorrow and weariness in his eyes were very apparent.
All weariness faded from the faces of the wayworn travellers, even the very camels and asses, shrunk, as most of them were, to mere skeletons, seemed to understand that labour and blows were done with, and forgetting their loads, shambled unurged down the stony path. Elissa
Why should the prospect of another remake prompt groans and feelings of weariness?
We walked on and on, yet I felt no weariness, just a little discomfort as the filth that clung to me began to harden into a crust.
Edwin, sunk in weariness, said little in opposition; and having suffered Monteith to take away his sword and to unbrace his plated vest, dropped at once on the straw in a profound sleep. The Scottish Chiefs
As he paid the storekeeper, weariness must have shown in his face. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
He was Lord Privy Seal in 1919-21, but then resigned, owing to ill health and a general weariness of office.
Analysts said the public's weariness over the reform movement was due in part to its lack of direction.
In the end I got out from among the houses, and arrived upon the sea-beach, where I discovered a sheltered pit among the sand hillocks, which they call denes, and there I lay down and slept off my weariness. Athelstane Ford
What is the cause of the weariness of life which sometimes takes possession of people without any assignable reason?
Days of oppressive weariness and languor, whose realities have the feeble sickliness of dreams; nights, whose dreams are fierce realities of agony; sinking health, tottering frames, incipient madness, and worse, the consciousness of incipient madness; this is the price of their whistle. Mary Barton
Still, we should not equate war weariness (prevalent during both wars) with lack of will or indifference.
‘And here,’ Michael Walters says with the quiet weariness of a veteran tour guide, ‘is where they often take their johns.’
While urban protests were encouraged by the Communists, Fenby writes, they were ‘above all, a sign of war-weariness and alienation from a regime that had nothing more to offer.’
We connect with his struggling painter because Cotten always had an everyman quality to his work, yet one usually tinged with a degree of weariness.
Weariness overcame her, and she drifted into sleep across her crumpled rohe. Shadowfane
We must therefore educate the young people along a revolutionary line lest they be affected by the war phobia and war-weariness spread by the revisionists.
And truely this rage of loue was the only meane to dulcorate and make swete the bitter gal of griefe whiche those twoo louers felte, defatigated almoste with tedious trauaile, iudging their wearinesse a pastime and pleasure, being guided by that vnconstante captaine, whiche maketh dolts and fooles wyse men, emboldeneth the weake hearted and cowardes, fortifieth the feeble, and to be shorte, vntieth the pursses and bagges of couetous Carles and miserable Misers. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
Now that the novelty had become accustomedness, and the conquering a surety, Billy discovered that she had a back that could ache, and limbs that, at times, could almost refuse to move from weariness. Miss Billy -- Married
This weariness is interrupted by the knocking of an Indian on your window … tap, tap, tap … Global Voices in English » Bahrain: Our Need For Indians Is Like Our Need For Air
Many is the time, as the weariness of my spirit witnesseth, that I have heard Sah-luma rehearse, -- but never in all my experience of his prolix multiloquence, hath he given utterance to such a senseless jingle-jangle of verse-jargon as to-night! Ardath
The French word _ennui_, which now only means weariness of mind, signified formerly injury, and the vexation or hatred caused thereby; something like the English word "annoy," as in Shakespeare's Richard III., v. 3: Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband
I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice.
Europe today is showing signs of near-term weariness after the recent rally that has carried it from its first-half low on May 25," said U.S. Data Cap European Stocks
So it was reassuring when she clucked sympathetically at the bone-weariness I described, and suggested that I take a nap before the boys got back. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
It was at the very end of the road, and when an enormous weariness had begun to add some kind of interest to this stuffless episode of the dull day, that a peasant with a brutal face, driving a cart very rapidly, came up with me. The Path to Rome
His demise changed the psychology of the people, whose war-weariness also made the situation ripe for the historic summit in Egypt.
On the contrary, Ionesco's personal opinion about the struggle for progress and human emancipation contains a world weariness that finds expression in almost every one of his plays.
If the vote does any good, it will be more by good luck and war weariness than good planning.
But he had lain and thought of himself and his aches and weariness for hours and days and months and years. The Secret Garden
She sensed something in my voice which betrayed great unplumbed deeps to my soul and an admirable weariness of the plastic norms of Society?
His eyes burned with weariness and his eyelids drooped.
Only her slightly erratic movements and an obvious weariness remind you that for the past 25 years she has suffered from Parkinson's disease.
I lay back, overcome with weariness yet astounded there was no pain. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The impressions one receives are of the weariness of a traveler who must convince himself by convincing others that what he has seen and experienced is as real as his own skin.
“We appeal to you, O readers of the sacred books, not to hearken to their contents with weariness and disdain for what seems to be their unpleasing method of narration” (“Deprecamur vos, O auditores sacrorum voluminum, non cum taedio vel fastidio ea quae leguntur, audire pro eo quod minus delectabilis eorum videtur esse narratio”); cp. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
She was struck by the waiting, the exhaustion and war-weariness of the young men. Times, Sunday Times
For the first time her face looked animated, the air of bored weariness dropping away. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
Call me blase -- I do not mind, if by blase is meant the world - weariness, intellectual, artistic, sensational, which can come to a young man of thirty. Chapter 8
That was last October," he answered with a sing-song weariness suggestive of impatience at such supererogative explanations. Never-Fail Blake
Even at the end of a particularly exhausting day of training Valery can make the others forget their weariness.
My evidence is anecdotal, but I detect a growing weariness among the public with his lust for power.
He ran a hand through his unkempt dark hair with undisguised weariness.
Frustration and weariness permeates most of the debate about the inequality of the healthcare system, with public waiting lists topping 29,000 in December.
It gushed from her lips like a very fountain of happiness, irrepressible, springing towards the stars in jets and spurts of melody, falling with a ripple in which the music of the stars themselves seemed to echo; almost in the moment of its fall rising again, as though it panted with joy -- not with weariness, for the spirit of it called impetuously to life. Major Vigoureux
Yes, there is war-weariness, fatigue from dealing with what seem like insoluble problems. Times, Sunday Times
She explained to the publican that this was a great English knight travelling from the Monastery to the court of Scotland, after having paid his vows to Saint Mary, and that she had been directed to conduct him so far on the road; and that Ball, her palfrey, had fallen by the way, because he had been over-wrought with carrying home the last melder of meal to the portioner of Langhope; and that she had turned in Ball to graze in the Tasker's park, near Cripplecross, for he had stood as still as Lot's wife with very weariness; and that the knight had courteously insisted she should ride behind him, and that she had brought him to her kend friend's hostelry rather than to proud Peter The Monastery
The phone conversation must have lasted seven or eight minutes tops, and by the time it was finished, Katie's head drooped with weariness.
Doubtless, the PM's strategy also depends on an increasing weariness over the subject among voters.
This revulsion of feeling is called satiety or weariness. The Ethics
The self-pity -- he saw it only as that now -- and the weariness were still controllable. THE LAST RAVEN
As war weariness grew and as inflation both measured and helped to produce economic disaster, the situation rapidly deteriorated.
Daisy's eyes were closed; the knitted brow had smoothed itself out in slumber; the deep breath told how profound was the need that weakness and weariness had made. Melbourne House
The aim of this research was to collect information which will enable us to better understand the job weariness of the vocational rehabilitation specialists in Taipei County.
I sense weariness with both liberals and conservatives who seem to disrespect others ' convictions and disregard concern for unity in the church.
So up and down the spiral staircases he goes, a rumpled mess wearing a wrinkled golf shirt, disheveled graying hair, and the scars and weariness from a lifetime's worth of beatings. Sunday Reading
So strong was the play-instinct in him, as well as was his constitution strong, that he continually outplayed Scraps to abject weariness, so that he could only lie on the deck and pant and laugh through air-draughty lips and dab futilely in the air with weak forepaws at Michael's continued ferocious-acted onslaughts. CHAPTER XI
The vote was a sign of weariness with rampant cronyism in government and a rapidly declining economy.
While the mullah glowered over the camp from the cave mouth or fulminated from the Quran or fought with other mullahs with words for weapons and abuse for argument, he bandaged and lanced and poulticed and physicked until his head swam with weariness. In The Time Of Light
_fag_ is not to be found in Dr. Johnson's Dictionary; but the verb to fag is there a verb neuter, from fatigo, Latin, and is there explained to mean, "to grow weary, to faint with weariness. Tales and Novels — Volume 01
Fired by much wine and a weariness with the visitor's braying, these words (or something very much like them) tumbled unbidden from the Professor's lips.
Weariness was balanced with delight.
Moreover, until the Ukrainian doctors diagnosed food poisoning we thought it was just weariness, resulting from his endless tours, rallies and meetings with people.
Lirael hugged it close to her chest for a moment, a faint hope breaking through her weariness. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Some few drifted far adown the stream, as did befit their weariness. The Nibelungenlied
Weariness was balanced with delight.
She screamed, and went into a fanatical frenzy, pushing aside her weariness for one last blaze of glory.
Thou then heldest Thy peace, and I wandered further and further from Thee, into more and more fruitless seed-plots of sorrows, with a proud dejectedness, and a restless weariness. The Confessions
They were done with hunger and weariness.
First of all men of his breed was he to enter this lone Northland village, and at the thought an exultancy came upon him, an exaltation, and his followers noted that his leg-weariness fell from him and that he insensibly quickened the pace. IN THE FOREST OF THE NORTH
While others complain of weariness, this team are more vivacious than ever.
It had begun to ascend the stairs ... and then the weariness had overcome it.
Arsenal shook off their recent weariness to force Chelsea aside in this sixth-round replay.
Reasons for undergoing reconstruction include inability to wear clothes, dislike of the external prosthesis, and weariness of the mastectomy deformity.
Hunger and weariness vanished, and only after the sun was low in the west I plashed on through the swamp, strong and exhilarated as if never more to feel any mortal care.
And I bless God (with that singular worthy, Peter Walker the packman at Bristo – Port) ,26 that ordered my lot in my dancing days, so that fear of my head and throat, dread of bloody rope and swift bullet, and trenchant swords and pain of boots and thumkins, cauld and hunger, wetness and weariness, stopped the lightness of my head, and the wantonness of my feet. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
The light from the bedroom pooled at the entrance to the main room, and I could see the glitter of his strange eyes, the expression of weariness across the elegant lines of his face. Raziel
As I was setting up that afternoon, the weariness from the past week began to fade and the reality of the situation set it: I was in line of sight of the display (shown above) by Artist Guest of Honor (and friend of SF Signal) John Picacio. Boskone Report
In recent years there has been both a discernible weariness with the violent impasse and a growing desire for peace among the parties to the conflict.
He felt numb with weariness and grief.
My weariness was exacerbated by the cold chill of the air conditioning and the low lighting of the hotel room.
The vote was a sign of weariness with rampant cronyism in government and a rapidly declining economy.
When all was still and silent, she continued onwards despite her weariness and the bitter cold.
For most generations sacrifice comes in drab and weariness of spirit.
Michael Caine really nailed the world weariness of his character, and his growing sense of anger and despair was completely sold through understatement.
For them, as for the whole class, the pleasures of life are limited by this perpetual weariness and by the asthenopia which they rarely escape, and which, by preventing them from reading, leaves them free to study day after day their accumulating aches and distresses. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
I went into the office to find the offender, and saw a worried woman crumpled in a chair in the corner, wearing a look of weariness and doubt.
Call it weariness," said Laurent Delaunay, a delegate with the CGT labor union at ExxonMobil Corp. 's Port-J é r ô me-Gravenchon refinery, north of Paris, where workers opted Monday to return to work. French Strikers Begin to Relent
Eventually, by 1917, sheer war-weariness was taking its toll, quite apart from other factors such as the growing militancy from organized labour and the Messianic appeal of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
Excessive breathing of fumes causes headache, weariness, and irritation of the nose and throat.
I noticed, behind the neutrality of his gaze, a deep weariness.
weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep
Weariness from the frequent travel and a desire to fine-tune his golf game were his reasons.
Lucky Tahlia got to sit through my cursing and weariness as she directed and briefed me.
The ordinary magnetist admits that he cannot cure more than four persons per diem; I have cured as many as thirty, and beyond the weariness caused by standing, I have been no worse at the end than at beginning. Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3
Instead of passion for writing, a weariness that weighed down each word and distorted the prose into something unshapely.
Her voice hoarse, she conceded some weariness from the lengthy campaign, saying her decision to take off the Easter weekend had only allowed exhaustion to set in.
His cheerful joke made us forget our weariness.
There's a weariness to the papers' coverage of this story.
It happened sometimes that he began to recite the Hours, but could not finish the Psalm which he had begun because so many came to him one after the other; and that he might not yield to weariness and refuse to open the door to him that knocked, he said to himself, "Once more for the sake of God," and this "once more" he did often repeat till "once" became "often," for in his brotherly love he did patiently overcome the hardships and unrestfulness of these interruptions. The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers.
It was in moments like these that he felt his full age and more, the euphoria of command replaced by a lethargic weariness.
Maybe there's some reluctance and weariness about going through all the motions we require a person to make before he can be President.
Rogers, Henderson and Nattiel all were in on that play and, by that point in the game, were fighting weariness.
She succumbed to weariness and went to bed.
At dawn, with a pleasant weariness finally coming over him, he retired to bed. GALILEE
Virtually worn out by the life he has led, there is a weariness in his character's every movement.
The painting elicits the viewer's identification with her weariness and suffocation in an intimate way.
There is a strength, an intelligence, a weariness, and an inherent sexiness about him that is almost impossible to deny.
She'd slept badly and felt numb with weariness and grief.
The machines are humming again, the shedhands begin to sing and some of the weariness falls away.
The plot, observing the classical unity of time by taking place in a 24-hour period, is the barest of sketches, a pretext for the feelings of sadness, world-weariness, and desperate hope.
Almost from the moment the caffeine-heavy energy drink Red Bull was introduced in the late 1980s, it was mixed with alcohol by revelers intent on bleariness without weariness. Frank Bruni Ingests Four Loko So You Don't Have To
Then passing by altogether the other idea which I said was only doubtfully suggested by the words -- namely, that of laceration and wounding -- let me say a word about the last of the aspects of humanity when Christless, which is set forth in this text, and that is, the dejected weariness arising from the fruitless wanderings wherewith men are cursed. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
The clergy here are, it may be said, admirable, composed of good and saintly priests; but they vegetate, torpid with inaction; they neither read nor work; their joints become ankylose; they die of weariness in this provincial spot. The Cathedral
His mind was filled with thoughts of the peasants, the women, children, old men, and all the poverty and weariness which he seemed to have seen for the first time, especially the smiling, old-faced infant writhing with his calfless little legs, and he could not help contrasting what was going on in the town. Resurrection
Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless? A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
So strong was the play-instinct in him, as well as was his constitution strong, that he continually outplayed Scraps to abject weariness, so that he could only lie on the deck and pant and laugh through air-draughty lips and dab futilely in the air with weak forepaws at Michael's continued ferocious-acted onslaughts. CHAPTER XI
Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie. Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
A shadow crossed his features, covering them in a mixture of guilt and weariness.
But his tone hints at a weariness with the film industry's perpetual publicity machine. Times, Sunday Times
This time, I've not been sleeping from weariness.
Nobody knows what the weariness of instruction is, as soon as the teacher's faculties begin to be overtasked, but those who have tried it.
Perhaps the weariness is simply the exhaustion of a full-time mother – Daly and her husband, the TV presenter and Radio 1 DJ Vernon Kay, do not employ a nanny at their Buckinghamshire home. Tess Daly: the interview
This was rejected out of hand by the High Command, and by the summer of 1918 disillusionment and war weariness seriously undermined the army's effectiveness.
While not rejecting the term entirely, I can sympathise with a weariness about the frequency with which the words ‘loophole’ and ‘technicality’ are used to dismiss important rules of law. Lean Left » Blog Archive » Aboat That Math Question
Everything was perfect, lovely, "decompressing" - yet within him, a maelstrom of weariness, confusion, and desires. Camy's Loft
So with her busy schedule, my busy schedule and her general sense of weariness I told her to take an entire week off.
But I was overcome with weariness, and so I went to bed.
But that presents a new problem: If this really is all motivated by weariness from the brutal [...] hjs3 GOP source: Palin decided it was 'time to move on'
The previous weariness was now completely gone from her features and instead was replaced by obvious excitement.
Slowly my own eyelids began to droop with weariness.
“As we have,” he said, “in the course of this our toilsome journey, lost our meridian, 47 indulgence shall be given to those of our attendants who shall, from very weariness, be unable to attend the duty at prime, 48 and this by way of misericord or indulgentia.” The Monastery
Weariness is the best friend of labor, just as the toothache is the best friend of sound teeth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
Dr. Vivian had, in short, induced himself to the casting-up of his monthly accounts, a task of weariness and travail. V. V.'s Eyes
I don't think J ever felt as much as I did, the weariness of the house's unrestfulness so long as she managed it; even after ten or more years of it. Archive 2006-01-01
I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice.
Some of the words seemed particularly resonant for me at that time: “Take and offer on the Cross our labours, weariness and low spirits and struggles and faint-heartedness . . .” The Woman I Was Born to Be
I have said '_lastly_' -- of the orange, for fear of the reader's weariness only; not as having yet represented, far less exhausted, the variety of frutescent form. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
This simple question from a bereaved mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq is fueling growing war-weariness across the United States.
His cheerful joke made us forget our weariness.
They show in the puffy, jowly contours of his face and the seen-it-all weariness in the eyes but those eyes still light up at the prospect of pulling off an art heist that will net him millions.
I've learned better... "He looked with morose weariness down at his right foot, crossed across his left. AN OLDER WOMAN
His shoulders were straight despite the weariness that she had seen in his eyes. PEARL COVE
I had never seen him look so old; for there, at that moment, I beheld the wastage and weariness of all his sixty-nine years of sea-battling and sea-staring. CHAPTER XXXVIII
As if Paul's words had been a spell of magic, discouragement and weariness passed from her spirit, and hope upwelled in her heart like a dancing fountain. Anne of Avonlea
“Okay, I want to see exactly where we stand,” Catherine said, thinking with dour amusement that it almost seemed a loaded statement, given that everyone at the conference table looked utterly discombobulated, their weariness evident from their raccoon-ringed eyes, scrambled and beaten hair, and wrinkled clothes. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep
Call me blase -- I do not mind, if by blase is meant the world-weariness, intellectual, artistic, sensational, which can come to a young man of thirty. CHAPTER VIII
Twenty-two years later, that war-weariness remained, creating a French popular and political (but not military) reluctance either to enter into a conflict or to continue a conflict once it had begun.
While the mullah glowered over the camp from the cave mouth or fulminated from the Quran or fought with other mullahs with words for weapons and abuse for argument, he bandaged and lanced and poulticed and physicked until his head swam with weariness. In The Time Of Light
An inexplicable, mind-numbing weariness settled over me, dank and clammy as pond-mist.
Her lawyer confirmed her client's increasing weariness over the delays.
Vague neuralgic aches in the limbs, with constant weariness, asthenopia, anæmia, loss of appetite, and loss of flesh, followed. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
All her weariness left her, all her sadness and bitterness were gone, sorrow was far behind her.
A hand that trembled slightly brushed against his forehead as if it could wipe away the weariness.
I feel this article somewhat misses the point - indeed it has more than a touch of mandarin weariness and disdain about it, or else technocratic superiority. Faith in Leaders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
An immense weariness overcomes me at the very thought of politics.
There is also a growing weariness in rural communities over the impacts of the recent war.
The animals at the zoo seem to be caught in that some place in-between world weariness and ennui.
However, as weariness set in, Leeds hit a late treble to finish the game.
There is a strange and peculiar sensation experienced in recovering from a state of insensibility, which is almost indescribable: a sort of dreamy, confused consciousness; a half-waking, half-sleeping condition, accompanied with a feeling of weariness, which, however, is by no means disagreeable. The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
Often when I have felt a weariness or distaste at home, have I rushed out into her crowded Strand, and fed my humour, till tears have wetted my cheek for inutterable sympathies with the multitudinous moving picture, which she never fails to present at all hours, like the shifting scenes of a skilful Pantomime. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb

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