worldly

How To Use worldly In A Sentence

• Her response is to renegotiate the boundaries between spiritual faith and worldly economies.
• But sharper than all these impressions rang the words of the worldly-wise Higbee: _ "She's hunting night and day for a rich husband; she tries for them as fast as they come; she'd rather marry a sub-treasury -- she'd marry me in a minute -- she'd marry_ YOU; _but if you were broke she'd have about as much use for you .... The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
• Eternity starts here; worldly aggrandizement is dust" Photography by Diana Ricci. And now for something a little different
• Now, as for those in our church who contend for the ceremonies, many of them are led by such _argumenta inartificialia_, as wealth, preferment, &c., and if conscience be at all looked to by them, yet they only throw and extort an assent and allowance from it, when worldly respects have made them to propend and incline to an anterior liking of the ceremonies. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
• It was a bit of a comedown in that we had to pack up everything and then spend 48 hours homeless - living in other people's spare rooms, our car packed to the gunnels with all our worldly possessions.
• A compendium of wise and worldly sentences can provide something akin to a course of education. The Times Literary Supplement
• This gave the film an ethereal, otherworldly quality that drew critical praise and, again, commercial indifference.
• So here again we have her as that which is both of the body and outside of bodily experience, both in the world and otherworldly.
• Freedom from habit or formula. Escape from daily routine or the ordinary. Unworldly. Transcending the conventional.
• Critics say he is too unworldly even to understand the hurt he has caused Maori.