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Any world-weary thoughts inspired by the old cynic’s portrait and bust are quickly dispelled by the original of Verrocchio’s cherub cuddling a dolphin like a baby doll.
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.
Judging from the media coverage, Kemp's only problem is that he may be too good for the job: too reasonable for his extreme-conservative party, too idealistic to get along with the world-weary Bob Dole, too boyishly bumptious to sit quietly in second place.
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.