How To Use World-weary In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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He looked world-weary although he'd never seen any place outside of Devonshire.
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Replace it with despair, or with a world-weary cynicism.
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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.
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Is 22 the apotheosis of world-weary sophistication?
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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.
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His growling voice, verging on the world-weary, hints at the ancient blues roots of his songs.
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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
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He may be a little world-weary, but behind the half-beard and the straggly locks there's the faintest trace of a smile.
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Al Pacino, with a superbly restrained and world-weary performance, plays Will Dormer, a detective who has come to Alaska to help the local police solve the violent death of a teenage girl.
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Fifteen years in the teaching profession had left him world-weary and cynical.
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How can opposition parties challenge these world-weary sighs?
Times, Sunday Times
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His Tony is a sad-faced, world-weary, consumptive character with little to live for or care about seemingly other than his godson.
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He was also an effective singer with an appealing, world-weary voice and a potent songwriter with an influence that extended far beyond the realm of folk.
Times, Sunday Times
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She issues world-weary, no-nonsense wisdom as she tries, repeatedly, to convince heavyset Deb that bigger is better.
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He was also an effective singer with an appealing, world-weary voice and a potent songwriter with an influence that extended far beyond the realm of folk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence the word ‘undergraduate’ became a pejorative for us world-weary postgrads.
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As a world-weary New Yorker, my son Sam was less than awed by Moscow - until I told him that the unprepossessing marble building on Red Square housed a real-life mummy.
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She deserved to grovel, but since that didn't appear to be working, she reverted to being the world-weary, spoiled heiress.
THIS HEART OF MINE
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I Thought You Were Dead (Algonquin, $23.95) has a low-key, indie-movie vibe, with Stella sounding like Juno's older, world-weary aunt and demonstrating perhaps the most complete lack of dogginess since Scrappy-Doo.
Five new books about dogs
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Dawn was a serial dater with a world-weary attitude: been there, done that, got the frog-kissing badge.
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He's cynical, world-weary and he won't call you the next day.
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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.
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Standing backstage, the world-weary piano player clenched his small hands together.
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I expect world-weary people, who show the physical and emotional scars of time on the inside and hold a high level of cynicism about the outside world.
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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.
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Pop music has always possessed a fetish for the combination of youth and musical skill, apparently since it takes a mature, world-weary mind to write a catchy pop hook.
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Most of them feature sparkle-eyed children with an innocent faith in wonder winning out over cynical world-weary adults.
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Hence the word ‘undergraduate’ became a pejorative for us world-weary postgrads.
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Fifteen years in the teaching profession had left him world-weary and cynical.
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He is at once hugely affable and yet faintly sulky, the dogged, world-weary NCO in some ancient sitcom, say, wearily humouring the la-di-da adjutant in the knowledge that everything will soon go badly wrong.
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As many of you doubtlessly know, getting your foot in the door is the hardest part of becoming a drug-addled, world-weary, bourgeois lech with a ballpoint pen for a cock and the world's ear as your toilet the rest comes surprisingly easy.
Jeff Klima: The Cheater's Guide to Getting Published
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The image of anxious and world-weary detectives puffing frantically on cigarettes outside interview rooms may still be a hallmark of TV drama.
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Evading the police - prominent amongst their number are the requisite hotheaded, ambitious youngster and world-weary old-timer - the assassin hides out in a rooms-by-the-quarter-hour hotel.
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Aged far beyond his 47 years, he is frumpy and world-weary.
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Plus, any band who produce We Care A Lot, a brutally fun hymn for the apathy generation is bound to grab any world-weary fifteen year old by the scruff of the neck.
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The man operating the cash register sighed in a world-weary fashion and darted his eyes around to ensure there weren't too many people around.
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Seasoned fairgoer Dennis Scholl said the echo chamber of the Internet allowed complaints about the virtual fair to resonate louder than they might at a physical fair, where a massive online audience isn't privy to world-weary collectors rolling their eyes and griping in the aisles.
An Art Fair's Tangled Web
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And "selfless" - so did they wish themselves with good reason, all those world-weary cowards and cross-spiders!
Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Her boss, Keith, is a world-weary figure whose vast experience is matched by his ineffectiveness.
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For years we whined about being the supporting characters on television shows: the wacky neighbor, the snippy coworker, the world-weary yet worldly-wise florist, the dog walker, the minty banker.
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Jonathan had looked restrained, almost world-weary, and perhaps a little jaded even.
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We still live in an age of martyrs and heroic saints, of apostates and world-weary skeptics.
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It's fun, it's ironic - for world-weary toymakers seeking the next big thrill.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rawlins operates on the streets, filtering the ghetto life around him through a world view that is cynical to the point of world-weary.
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While such toe-curling confessionals may grate with some, they nonetheless fill its forty-five minutes with a world-weary warmth and idealism to match the boundary-breaking beats.
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Fifteen years in the teaching profession had left him world-weary and cynical.
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‘Good luck trying to find your trends,’ he said with a world-weary head shake.
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He reverts to the world-weary pundit voice known to viewers.
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Lengthy bonding scenes follow in which, inevitably, the hardened, world-weary, cynical bodyguard learns to love the winsome little blonde.
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This is a tough, cynical world with plenty of murders and world-weary cops trying their best to solve them.
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He's the opposite of the sophisticated, cultured, world-weary foreign correspondent.
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It was a victory to bring a smile to the face of even the most cynical and world-weary sport-watcher.
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Though Amy has an open face and wide eyes, she seems more world-weary than naïve.
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She deserved to grovel, but since that didn't appear to be working, she reverted to being the world-weary, spoiled heiress.
THIS HEART OF MINE
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Lengthy bonding scenes follow in which, inevitably, the hardened, world-weary, cynical bodyguard learns to love the winsome little blonde.
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Making her talking-picture debut in 1933's When Ladies Meet, Brady rapidly became one of Hollywood's most prolific portrayers of addlebrained society matrons and world-weary matriarchs.
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The singer's scratchy voice and world-weary acoustic songs are nastily refreshing, and his lyrics are positively bewitching.
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Indeed, he's knackered and at times seems world-weary.
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It's fun, it's ironic - for world-weary toymakers seeking the next big thrill.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her voice (giddy or quivering), her gestures (ebullient or devastated), her posture (vertical, expansive as in "I Love New York!" or slumped like an urban pieta) describe the volcanic feelings that develop and finally erupt in her world-weary soul.
James Scarborough: Stop Kiss, The Garage Theatre
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She deserved to grovel, but since that didn't appear to be working, she reverted to being the world-weary, spoiled heiress.
THIS HEART OF MINE
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Burnell sought out a world-weary UNESCO man who drove him to a site beyond the city.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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In Puccini's dolorous "Crisantemi," the sense of world-weary detachment was not completely apt, the suffering held at a distance.
Music review: The Quatuor Debussy with Katherine Chi at Library of Congress
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We learn about her politics, her home life, and we become very familiar with her world-weary wit, but still she fails to ring true as a person.
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Sean Penn - lined, morose and world-weary - is outstanding as a federal agent assigned to to protect her.
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If his concern is with a number of unfortunate people dying, then just let him note the tragedy and leave the world-weary evaluations alone.
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So enjoy being up, you world-weary denizens of the night; there is some stuff on the tube worth watching.
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Slim, round-shouldered, with a feint moustache, he looked careworn and world-weary from the moment he graduated to international cricket.
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After a few of these interviews, Suh cuts to a very relatable, already world-weary student who says: "My homeroom was filled with teenagers, as is every other homeroom."
