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

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

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

Intense worldliness can be vanquished only by intense unworldliness; unbelief fosters faith among a few; and the more loose the habits of the majority, the more severe will be the practice of the minority.

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs