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

He worked odd jobs on construction sites, in bars, nightclubs and hotels; he was robbed and exploited: people took advantage of his unworldliness.

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2018

A score of repetitive, ethereal unworldliness, it lasted 4 hours and 38 minutes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2015

That death was brought about by the world’s opposition to unworldliness.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus