unworldliness

Example Sentences

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Some of Shelley’s friends back home disappoint him too, taking advantage of his unworldliness, his bottomless belief in the groove.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023

Obviously, some people must, and yet today a passion for reading seems vaguely quaint, while to be called “bookish” or “learned” verges on an insult, suggesting a slightly ditsy, even elitist unworldliness.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2022

A score of repetitive, ethereal unworldliness, it lasted 4 hours and 38 minutes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2015

Geoffrey Streatfeild as Protasov follows a basic rule of acting by playing the character from his own point of view, as a man who believes his visionary experiments justify his unworldliness.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2013

When a Music-hall singer does not treat of the tender passion in a rakish and knowing spirit, he is apt to exhibit an unworldliness truly ideal in its noble indifference to all social distinctions.

From Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by Anstey, F.