world-weary
Example Sentences
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The world-weary consumer of news might reasonably wonder if we’re headed into another version of climate alarmism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
Brody often expresses a world-weary charm about him that makes him pull focus.
From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025
Each show reflects in its own way the influence of a gritty genre that situated world-weary protagonists in cold, uncaring worlds armed only with their wits, fists, guns and rat-a-tat dialogue.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024
For “Stress Positions,” the writer-director Theda Hammel shows her hand when a character says, in a world-weary voice-over, that the madness we’re about to witness “happened so long ago.”
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024
I tried sounding businesslike and world-weary, but when the day eventually came, my nerves kicked in and the true Mr. Sedaris revealed himself.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
