worldly pleasures

Example Sentences

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Mr. Plemons, who has slimmed down to scarecrow dimensions to suit a character who has renounced all worldly pleasures, is one of those rare actors who never seem to be acting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

In the comics, he teamed up with various heroes to take down his genocidal brother and joined the Avengers for a time, but he tends to be invested in more worldly pleasures.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021

Pilgrims enter into a state of spiritual purity known as "ihram" that is aimed at shedding symbols of materialism, giving up worldly pleasures and focusing on the inner self over outward appearance.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2018

Followers view life as a little more than a transitional phase and are contemptuous of worldly pleasures.

From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2017

His passion entertains him with a thousand delights, prepares for him a thousand baites, presents him with a thousand worldly pleasures to surprize him: and fewe there are that are not beguiled.

From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Herbert, Mary Sidney