world-weary

How To Use world-weary In A Sentence

• I love the way Sarajevans express themselves; it's a kind of world-weary, mordant wit overlying an amazing ability to absorb and survive great suffering. A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book
• Their smiling, happy-clappy welcome to all associated with the World Cup finals even looks a little naive to those of us who have arrived from world-weary quarters of the globe.
• He looked world-weary although he'd never seen any place outside of Devonshire.
• Replace it with despair, or with a world-weary cynicism.
• In such employment dilemma, College Students created anxiety irritability, low self-esteem and other psychological world-weary and cynical, seriously affected the physical and mental health.
• Is 22 the apotheosis of world-weary sophistication?
• His tone is tauntingly acidic, his expression world-weary but capable of mischievous reigniting; his hands keep taking off on a little dance of impatience and deprecation.
• His growling voice, verging on the world-weary, hints at the ancient blues roots of his songs.
• The young dukeling is probably quoting the more memorable passages to his fellows even now with as much world-weary cynicism as he can muster. Duet « A Fly in Amber
• He may be a little world-weary, but behind the half-beard and the straggly locks there's the faintest trace of a smile.