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

They merely aspire to isolate themselves, and personally to practice principles and virtues of the highest order; unworldliness such as, if general, might indeed turn the earth into the desired Utopia.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha