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74 examples of Worldly in a sentence

I don't think the New World felt too new worldly exciting to the people who were brought over on slave ships.
Adam I is the worldly, ambitious, external side of our nature.
The premise is about a gold digging woman, named Jewel who dates men to get them to steal and sometimes murder, so she can have all the worldly possesions she so desperately desires.
The director and writer try to establish his credibility, but his saying of lines like "Royal Baluga, North of the ..." just aren't effective in establishing him as this worldly and suave rogue.
Perhaps she should stick to the more worldly, somewhat corruptive characters that she has generated in other performances.
Of course, Indri and worldly top con Helga join forces and plan to escape.
Director / lead actor Dutcher revels in this look-at-me film, wherein he attempts to gain worldly acceptance for tarnishing the otherwise very upbeat world of Mormon missionaries.
The angel proves to be less saintly and more worldly than we would expect, and that's what makes it entertaining.
2005's 'You Are Alone' demonstrates how common worldly events can shatter the soul.
After getting his wish and trying a worldly lifestyle he realizes that his quality of life has been dramatically diminished and wants to go back to being the person that he was.
Unfortunately, I was too distracted that Him had all kinds of worldly wisdom and advice but had no reliable return back to his home in Brentwood, carried no cash or debit card, or had the wisdom to keep a cell phone with him.
Lyon is excellent at playing the young girl he loves and then the more worldly wife, though her 3-pack a day voice does threaten to give her away at any given moment.
I do appreciate that they finally used such a young, plain woman to play Jane, a character who is supposed to be a worldly 18, but if you want to see a version that closer approximates the personalities and passions of the novel, please see the 70's version with George C. Scott and Susannah York.
Ettore Scola, one of the most refined and grand directors we worldly citizens have, is not yet available on DVD... (it's summer 2001 right now....) Mysteries to goggle the mind.
The main character had to overcome local prejudice against missionaries, his total removal from worldly possessions, his fears of becoming an elephant (see the movie he explains this) and his loneliness for his wife to be are just a few of his challenges.
Even worldly sophisticates like George Plimpton or Wm F. Buckley like slapstick, sophomoric sex jokes and watching drunk frat-boys being jerks as much as the next guy.
He finds himself obliged to engage in worldly matters.The more he gets himself into this the more he vacillates because he notices that the religious order rented a shop to the men who take alcohol and in another example he oscillates to take the rent from a family who has barely any money.
May Robson, worldly wise and utterly compassionate.
Emmanuelle is the 19 year old wife of a wealthy diplomat, a man older than her, and with much more worldly experience than his innocent young bride.
She wants to play the innocent Swiss miss in his new work but he, rightly, rejects her as too worldly.
The whole cast is excellent, and the sensual , open tone of the movie, mixing the fairly straight-laced couple, their young child, middle class friends and family, and the worldly young man and depicting them, ultimately, as not really all that different, is almost comforting...until that ending, which came rather fast and furious after a more slow moving development, shattering the mood.
In this view, Brad Dourif's "Doc" is the most consistent and audience-friendly of the lot, even if he's almost too worldly and wise, it would seem, for both period and locale.
The film is steeped in dark age pagan mysticism and offers an almost "other worldly" experience to the viewer.
But we cannot rely on them when so many worldly people see nothing wrong with revolving doors.
Allowing them to frame these problems in religious terms legitimizes the perspective that they are attempting to impose, particularly in their own societies.It also allows them to camouflage their very worldly thirst for power.
The focus on such “pocketbook” issues by US presidential candidates may provide some insight into their worldly wisdom.
But for precisely that reason, more conservative elements within Iran’s government are deeply suspicious of Rouhani’s reformist agenda, viewing the potential emergence of a more worldly, pluralistic society as a serious threat to the regime’s survival.
He wants to show that, like France’s most famous politicians, he is a worldly dragueur who can “pull” beautiful women.
For a person, this means that a time of labor -- physical and worldly -- ceases, replaced by a time of contemplation, evaluation, inward endeavor.
For the reformers, normality meant the progressive development of Muslim societies, and they tied this to the interaction of Islamic teaching with relevant, worldly ideas of the time.
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