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It makes them part of the great Washington game, and it gives them something to act cynical and world-weary about.
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.
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.
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.
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.