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
It’s this innocence and indeterminacy — his unworldliness — that probably makes Tintin feel so alien to American readers, and it’s also what most recommends him.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2012
Independence of the temporal power is symptomatic with that unworldliness which, as we have shown above, characterises monophysitism.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)
