world-weariness
Example Sentences
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That clamp down targeted narratives that suggested studying and hard work were "useless", as well as content that promoted "world-weariness".
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Some of the pieces in the book written before this real-life catastrophe, though, suffer from the rote world-weariness of the columnist accustomed to griping to order.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
It involves a prison visit, Barbara Walters, Twitter insults, forgiveness and a kind of shared world-weariness.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
Sigourney Weaver plays the collective’s tough-love founder, with palpable pluck and world-weariness.
From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2022
Citra wondered how many of her own days had been filled with world-weariness before becoming an apprentice to death.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
