How To Use Worldliness In A Sentence
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He composed another poem on the vanity of worldliness.
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His literary career was dogged by a fierce unworldliness.
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Bergman moves the entire sequence from gothic, candle-illuminated lighting to electric, reflecting both the otherworldliness of the atmosphere and its unbeautiful blandness.
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The mournful spectacle of a divided Christendom; of rival sects compassing land and sea to make proselytes; of the spiritual alienation of those who, in reality, belong to the one divine family; of waste and inefficiency in methods of evangelical effort; not to mention the error, pride, and worldliness inherent in the gigantic ecclesiastical systems known as denominational churches.
The Last Reformation
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These strange forms exude a sense of magical, super-human power, evoking a quality both bestial and human, and an otherworldliness that is fantastic and supernatural.
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During these years, many Protestants embraced a pessimistic premillennialism that predicted societal decline, undercut efforts at social reform, and emphasized individual evangelism, spirituality, and otherworldliness.
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Thus, in reality the appellation ‘Ebionites’ was one its bearers carried with pride because it referred to their eschewal of luxury and worldliness.
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This movement or family of traditions is called monasticism, literally meaning, "dwelling alone," and was established during the early church as a protest against the increasing worldliness of the church.
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The editor writes of a very significant shift in the balance of piety from otherworldliness to a this-worldly focus.
The Times Literary Supplement
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To the cosmopolitan elite, wine means sophistication, worldliness, a place on the global stage.
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There is a quaintness and unworldliness about its old streets and wharves, which is indescribable in print; there is a wonderfully impressive expanse of sea and sky on the Bay of Bidassoa, a couple of kilometres away, and all sorts and conditions of men may find an occupation here for any passing mood they may have.
The Automobilist Abroad
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In her book she describes herself as "a mixture of hopeful innocence and weary worldliness".
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Supposedly, we are mature, educated individuals who boast a worldliness beyond our years.
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Each has been tempted by an excess of otherworldliness or this-worldliness, by universalism or tribalism, by the spirit or by the flesh.
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She was pretty, a lovely devilment in the face, a puckish little smile, tiny pointed ears suggesting otherworldliness.
MAMBO
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Of one thing we may be sure, that the memory of his pure and noble life, untouched by worldliness, unsoured by fanaticism, will endure.
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He is amused by their unworldliness and their belief that they cannot enforce economy on Government unless they practise it themselves.
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But Browne presents him as an amalgam of innocence and worldliness, good nature and guile.
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That Offaly team was always able to surf the tricky waves, and had a worldliness that this young side couldn't expect to have.
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In reality the very same combinations of moral qualities, infinitely varied, which compose the harsh physiognomy of what we call worldliness in the living groups of life, must unavoidably present themselves in books.
Biographical Essays
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Our thought has become enslaved by 'worldliness'.
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The villages slowly slip into a mood that reflects a superb blend of spirituality and worldliness.
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Enlightenment scientism is beautifully burlesqued here, both Austen and Mary Shelley coming in for gentle mockery, the worldliness of the one interweaving mischievously with the emotional extravagance of the other.
Financial independence via munchkinland
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It is all about imperial arrogance unschooled in worldliness, unfettered either by competence or experience.
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The composer's only opera, "Pelléas et Mélisande," is indeed a triumph of hermeticism and otherworldliness.
An Otherworldly Opera
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In reality, the very same combinations of moral qualities, infinitely varied, which compose the harsh physiognomy of what we call worldliness in the living groups of life, must unavoidably present themselves in books.
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
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Other-worldliness is the best alibi a rich man can have.
As I Please
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he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him
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Learnèd ladies and cleansed from the taint of all worldliness.
Psalms of the Sisters
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Buddism's call to renounce worldliness is itself a call for separation, akin to Christianity's.
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‘I wanted to do it and I did it,’ she says, slightly amazed at the memory of her own unworldliness.
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Note, The way of worldliness is a very foolish way: those that lay up their treasure on earth, and set their affections on things below, act contrary both to right reason and to their true interest.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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His works are known for a certain voluptuousness and ripe sensuality, his figures lacking much of the grace and elegance of earlier bijin prints, but emphasizing in their place worldliness and a less disguised or mediated sexuality.
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Essentially, the azad were itinerant mendicants who regularly practised extreme ascetic styles of religious devotion, as a mark of their ‘other worldliness.’
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They are convinced that cupidity, that the desire for wealth, that the worldliness seen in avarice is the ultimate cause for all of the social ills that they see around them.
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For all his unworldliness, Gray has always been anxious about the reception of his work.
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One cannot have this as there is the slightest trace of worldliness.
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The conception of this landscape as ‘remote’ supports the common depiction of the Hoa Hao religion as one of inwardness or otherworldliness.
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This ingenuous charm contrasts with Mason's greater worldliness, greater opacity.
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Its beauty lay in its other-worldliness, its tone of kooky mystery.
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Modern fiction, like high heels, make-up, alcohol, TV, was indicative of worldliness - a give-away sign of the Devil's intent.
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The knee-jerk disdain so many of his critics have for him can be traced largely to his worldliness: He's a man who, of necessity, was brought up not to be Joe the Plumber but a citizen of the planet.
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His unworldliness - despite all he has seen and heard - is the perfect contrast to the high-minded hanky-panky of the inner circle.
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This violated Quaker ideas about the vanity and worldliness of such titles, for they believed that Christ respected no man's person.
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In his time the religious energy and zeal were flowing away from the empirical world into the desert of otherworldliness, asceticism and renunciation.
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Even now, there is an aura of otherworldliness about him.
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For this was the unfortunate moment which he chose to launch another of his impassioned diatribes at the worldliness, the luxury, the intrigues, the meretricious bedizenment of wealthy and high-born women.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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His unworldliness - despite all he has seen and heard - is the perfect contrast to the high-minded hanky-panky of the inner circle.
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For someone who has spent much of his life perfecting an image of epicene other-worldliness, he now bears startlingly normal hallmarks of a bloke you'd enjoy talking to down the pub.
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She used the coolness of the colors portraying the "Earth Light" in this scene to emphasize its otherworldliness.
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It's as though Piero has tried to suggest two registers, one for the worldliness of his patron, and the other for the heavenliness of the angels.
Piero, in Perfect Proportion
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The fact of his otherworldliness only partially excuses the naive presentation of Scottish culture as some kind of pure, folklorish antidote to the oppressive urbanity of London living; one wonders how this play would be received north of the English border.
Variety.com
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But when I got a better grasp of biblical teaching, I saw worldliness in sharper perspective.
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Even the battle scenes are choreographed with a kind of tai chi otherworldliness.
'Cymbeline': A fairy tale without magic
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I am personally convinced that much of our worldliness is a total misunderstanding of the real issue.
Living on the Edge
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It seemed to be more suited to those the world prefers to ignore: recluses, solitudinarians withdrawn from worldliness and public notice, supernatural beings and the mad.
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The concept of ‘worldliness’ for Said was a profound understanding of circumstantiality and the role of what Marx refers to as ‘sensuous’ human activity in interpretation.
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That otherworldliness could make him a captivating writer but not always a terrific husband.
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At the time I was gobsmacked at his sheer lack of worldliness.
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If he could be made to love - how different from those roués of young men, blasé with pleasure, old in worldliness before they reach the term of middle life; oh! how I have always loathed them all.
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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Criticism of their worldliness has been a common theme throughout Islamic history.
William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: The Meaning of Islam
