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Weariness in sentence

83 examples of Weariness in a sentence

Malone's performance outshines the rest, although Jasper Hadley's weariness at the disappointing behavior of his two children is brilliantly portrayed by Robert Keith.
Grushinskaya has passed her prime as a ballerina, and her world weariness masks her awareness that her days of international greatness are over.
When we first see Bruce Willis dragging himself up the stairs, his weariness as a human, and a cop, is evident.
As the main architect of globalization, which awakened awareness worldwide of the need for global public goods, the US must, even in its weariness, summon its creative resources.
His early momentum and the apparent support – or at least tolerance – of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reflect Iranians’ weariness with international isolation and their bitterness over the economic havoc that ever-tightening sanctions have wrought.
But to see these as Ukraine’s only options is to mistake weariness for wisdom, and to be discouraged rather than to understand.
Exploiting the weaknesses in Bosnia’s constitutional structure, the international community's weariness and EU inability to stick by its conditionality, he has, in two years, reversed much of the real progress in Bosnia over the past 13, crucially weakened the institutions of the Bosnian state, and all but stopped the country's evolution into a functioning (and EU-compatible) state.
Weariness with the war is spreading in the United States, where President Barack Obama finds it difficult to decide about an increase in troops, as demanded by his own generals.
In South Korea, President Lee Myung-bak’s political base wants to roll back, not reinvigorate, the Sunshine Policy, and there is a widespread (though by no means universal) weariness with engagement.
And, after so many years in office, accumulated scandals and a general weariness with the country’s unchanging leadership have caught up with him.
Now, however, he would be glad to emulate current British Prime Minister Boris Johnson by securing a clear parliamentary majority through a combination of determined mendacity on his part and weariness on the part of the electorate.
Why don't you speak?'Then as soon as they began to talk he shut his eyes and expressed weariness, indifference, and disgust.
Moving his feet deliberately, Karenin, with his usual air of weariness and dignity, bowed to those gentlemen who were talking about him, and his eyes searched through the doorway for the Countess.
His weariness vanished, at once he went easily through the marsh toward the dog.
Levin experienced an agreeable sense of relief from the mental weariness of the morning.
But under the influence of weariness, a sleepless night, and the wine he had drunk, he slept soundly and peacefully.
Instead of its former animation it expressed weariness and lifelessness..'What is it you wish of me?'Karenin said, turning round in his chair and folding his pince-nez.
The distant hammer struck regular blows in the pit, and the wind passed by with its moan, like a cry of hunger and weariness coming out of the depths of the night.
The single room that occupied the first floor was drowned in a thick darkness which seemed to overwhelm with its weight the sleep of the beings whom one felt to be there in a mass, with open mouths, overcome by weariness.
In her weariness she had, as usual, counted the four strokes through the floor without the strength to arouse herself completely.
A final yawn opened her rather large mouth with splendid teeth against the chlorotic pallor of her gums; while her grey eyes were crying in her fight with sleep, with a look of painful distress and weariness which seemed to spread over the whole of her naked body.
Zacharie and Jeanlin finished washing with slow weariness.
Then everything fell back into darkness, pickaxes struck great hollow blows; one only heard panting chests, the grunting of discomfort and weariness beneath the weight of the air and the rain of the springs.
For the rest she was not ignorant concerning man and woman, although he felt that her body was virginal, with the virginity of a child delayed in her sexual maturity by the environment of bad air and weariness in which she lived.
Madame Hennebeau was already getting tired, happy for a moment to amuse herself in the weariness of her exile by playing the part of exhibiting the beasts, but immediately disgusted by the sickly odour of wretchedness, in spite of the special cleanliness of the houses into which she ventured.
It was the end of the day, the collapse of workers falling from the table to the bed, overcome with weariness and food.
Then, when the candle was out, they both knew that they were not sleeping but were thinking of each other in spite of their weariness.
When Sunday came one slept from weariness.
Then everything whirled around her in the darkness; a millstone turned in her head, her heart grew weak and left off beating, numbed in its turn by the immense weariness which was putting her limbs to sleep.
He would have treated her as a worm if she had acknowledged her weariness.
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