worldliness

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• They are among his dearest worldly possessions, the paper trail of his protracted confinement, though he can barely read.

• Forged in the fires of the Counter-Reformation, the Jesuit Order adopted many Protestant practices, including an emphasis on schooling and worldly skills.

• I asked long-term travelers how they prepared for a marathon trip, from obtaining the right credit card to dealing with all of their worldly possessions.

• As a rule, farming isn’t as hazardous as trench warfare, but it can result in the kinds of accidents that leave only minutes to pass on one’s worldly goods.

• Martin painted the emotions you can access there, on the furthest frontiers of tedium, when manufactured emotions and worldly concerns have been dulled by countless laps or lines.

• This year, with slightly more worldliness and way fewer drinks consumed, I could see the emotionally fraught underbelly.

• Michelle King: But her worldliness or pragmatism, it's not as though it's being led by what Peter and his campaign are doing.

• Carl is repaid for his worldliness with failure and ignominy.

• Hitchens exuded what I thought then was a superb worldliness.

• But there is one place where judging Almodóvar objectively is not seen as an affront to worldliness: Spain.

• I hurt you when I say that, but I want you to be my good friend, as always, in spite of my worldliness.

• And it has to be said that Elsie April in all her young and radiant splendour and woman-of-the- was equally stiff.