unworldly

Example Sentences

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It’s impressive enough as it stands, but when the skirt opens to reveal a team of dancers inside of it as Gaga transitions from “Bloody Mary” to “Abracadabra,” it seems almost unworldly.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025

The King is presented as old fashioned and rather unworldly.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2023

Its lovers are as young and unworldly as Liesl and her Nazi boyfriend, Rolfe, in “The Sound of Music.”

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2022

All that is winged, even the grating corn crake, is painted with a mystical birder’s unworldly rose-colored pianistic glasses.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2021

He and the train were equally sleek and unworldly.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix