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As often happens when intellectuals discuss Flytrap, Nagel lapses into a tone of world-weary, almost European snobbishness, declaring that America's inability to respect the rules of civility reveals its immaturity as a society.
It makes them part of the great Washington game, and it gives them something to act cynical and world-weary about.
He glanced at her, the world-weary eyes of Old Scotia and the prelapsarian ingenuousness of Young Picardie's meeting in a fleeting look that spanned the ages.
Note the characteristically airtight yet elliptical prose, the world-weary delicacy that records "the difference between a rule and a moral point" but commits neither to one nor the other.
In The Last Thing He Wanted , Didion gets to the bottom of the mystery for once, and a parable that had long since begun to seem world-weary becomes unexpectedly gripping.