Example sentences for: world-weary

How can you use “world-weary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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