unworldliness

Example Sentences

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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

Northanger Abbey centers on Catherine Morland, a good-natured but naïve heroine whose unworldliness leads her to misinterpret much of what she sees.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2013

His unworldliness and vulnerability inspire a protective instinct in Tim, even as Barry’s habit of aggressively messing up everything in Tim’s life inspires and perhaps justifies a degree of cruelty.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2010

About it all was a suggestion of illimitableness, of more than earthly majesty, of infinite serenity and measureless calm, which sat upon our spirits with a certain eerie unworldliness.

From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Poe, Clarence Hamilton