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

But the idiom of “realism” masks a surprising unworldliness.

From New York Times • May 15, 2020

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

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