world-weariness

It involves a prison visit, Barbara Walters, Twitter insults, forgiveness and a kind of shared world-weariness.

From his tense shoulders to the way he grinds his teeth in moments of stress, Howard embodies a world-weariness that borders on exhaustion, looking harried and bedraggled even at his most well-rested and upbeat.

“I hosted parties and starved my body like I’d be saved by a perfect kiss,” Swift sings, presenting the supposedly innocent era of her early stardom with a new overlay of world-weariness and pain.

But there’s also something off, even a bit sardonic, about the juxtaposition of Laura, a mousy little blur, and this particular song, with its louche, emphatically unromantic world-weariness.

With her sarcastic, you-know-better world-weariness, Glaser serves as a prod to the women to exercise good judgment.