How To Use Unworldly In A Sentence
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There is also a homely, unworldly duo, Mitch and Mickey, played by Catherine O'Hara and Levy: a pair deeply traumatised by their unspoken, unconsummated love for each other.
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Freedom from habit or formula. Escape from daily routine or the ordinary. Unworldly. Transcending the conventional.
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Critics say he is too unworldly even to understand the hurt he has caused Maori.
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Despite her independence and academic brilliance, she is naive and unworldly and her choices are terrifying.
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The absence of a World Series ring is the last, the only blemish on a career that has climbed from the exceptional to the unworldly.
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To portray him out of context could make him appear naive and unworldly.
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Despite her independence and academic brilliance, she is naive and unworldly and her choices are terrifying.
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He did not know where he was, but despite his strange surroundings and the unworldly heat and glaze, he could tell he was still in a prison.
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The colours of their canoes and clothes were softened by the dim air and long use, and there seemed to accompany each boat and each person an atmosphere within this other haze, a spiritual kind of exhalation; so that one might have thought them, with the crucifixes on their breasts, and that unworldly, distinguished look which comes to those who live much with nature, as sons of men going upon such mission as did they who went into the far land with Arthur.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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The darkness was unworldly, he thought; objects blurred into each other, colors shifted to become unnatural.
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this helplessly unworldly woman
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His fruitcake theory was Cambridge people were clever but isolated and unworldly, believing what they thought was right took precedence over any duty to their country.
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Easier to blame the unworldly bureaucrats in Whitehall or Brussels than recognise, never mind grapple with, the underlying tendencies to economic atrophy.
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But his unworldly innocence disguises his disregard for the real social consequences of his actions.
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To the Australians these 'chooms' seemed naive, unworldly, and deferential.
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He was a kind soul; completely unworldly in every sense of the word.
GOODBYE CURATE
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was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards
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Beyond it lies another world, quite unlike the one on bustling Queen West, a serene, unworldly oasis of miniature food, quaint dishes and exotic teas.
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He is an expert magician who specializes in debunking those who use magic techniques to claim psychic or otherwise unworldly powers.
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For some reason now obscure to him, he'd thought it an impractical study, suited only to unworldly dreamers.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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Would this lead me to be suspected as one of those apparently unworldly people who don't ‘get it’?
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Could it be that, beneath their veneer of unworldly innocence, they're all secretly gagging for it?
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And, sure enough, there on the deck is a guy is a brilliant, somewhat unworldly professor, busily sketching a design for a new lifeboat as the smoke billows in larger and larger clouds.
Other Stuff « Gerry Canavan
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Those unworldly concepts have resulted in American personnel and resources being committed to U.N. operations far removed from vital American interest.
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Peake is described in the Dictionary of National Biography as ‘Tall, thin, dark, and haggard gentle, gracious, unworldly, and unpractical.
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He is frequently cast in intelligent, odd and somewhat unworldly characters for the very good reason that he does them so well.
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Surely Ross is not so naive and unworldly as to not know that practically every publication on the planet has some form of selection criteria for advertising.
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Back then he was shy, untravelled, unworldly and a little flash with his money.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cheapness of his productions allows another of Franco's gifts to flourish - his ability to transform real, undressed settings into unworldly zones of mystery simply by virtue of his eye for atmospheric detail.
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Church was the place where music was a means of ‘spirit possession’, a quality hinted at in some of Gaye's unworldly vocal tapestries.
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How long this gentle, shy, harmless, unworldly man can carry on pushing his heavy load, God only knows!
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His widow, a founder member of the company, would take the part of the unworldly land-owner Ranyevskaya.
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Now, my fellow-sinners, to show you the difference betwixt worldly - mindedness and unworldly-mindedness, betwixt kingdoms not of this world and kingdoms OF this world, here was a letter wrote by even our worldly-minded brother unto Brother Hawkyard.
George Silvermans's Explanation
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The landscape had a stark, unworldly beauty.
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What is significant and rather curious about this otherwise slight prologue is the relative normality of the space being explored compared to the buffoonishly unworldly figure of the intruder.
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His barrister said he was naive and unworldly and had his first sexual experience when he was 34.
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In many ways, the samurai ethos has become the norm in American cinema, though we are more likely to accept it if the hero is armed with a six-shooter instead of a katana of unworldly quality.
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Freedom from habit or formula. Escape from daily routine or the ordinary. Unworldly. Transcending the conventional.
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Long ago we knew her as an unworldly girl, whose peachblow coloring gave to her face its chief beauty, although her plaintive blue eyes and smooth brown hair called forth a certain protective faith in her simplicity and goodness.
The Love Affairs of an Old Maid
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How could such an unworldly clamour be tolerated?
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The "Nobel" in Economics, by directly rewarding some of those unworldly machinations and indirectly sponsoring the misplaced mathematization of finance, had a large hand in the ugly consequences.
Pablo Triana: The Nobel Crisis
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The unworldly Septimus Harding, precentor at the great cathedral, is drawn into a furious dispute about church corruption, his only solace being the sublime sound of the cathedral choir as its songs ascend to heaven.
Ten of the best
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Thunder rattled the windows and lightning gave an eerie and unworldly light to halls.
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Donald was ingenuous and unworldly.
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She nodded seriously over her serviceable, unworldly brown collarette.
Missy
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His eldest son is a simple, unworldly soldier, who has lived most of his life in India.
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Far from the stereotypical businessman exploiting unworldly people, he had a refined appreciation for both silk production and the Thai way of life.
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What came out of their mouths were words to the effect that ‘white trash’ referred to those white individuals who were stupid, unsophisticated, ignorant, poor, and perhaps unworldly.
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For some reason now obscure to him, he'd thought it an impractical study, suited only to unworldly dreamers.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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With a single drawn-out look of longing, Cserhalmi conveys an unworldly tenderness with his deeply penetrating eyes.
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I lack the patience to carefully examine a fan coral for pygmy seahorses no bigger than my little fingernail, but there's enough of the big and dramatic to keep me astonished: the orb-like shimmering jellyfish, the wrasses, turtles and mantas, the epaulette sharks that "walk" on their fins, the unworldly-appearing frogfish or the schools of silver barracuda.
Dive Time
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The light in these building's windows becomes something other than itself, a differentiated and unworldly color, defined by the imagination.
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From now on, the notion of an unworldly pontiff belongs at best to magic-realist fiction.
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Everything about him seemed to emphasize how unreachable he would prove to be for a fatherless, penniless, unworldly girl like me, but something in his eyes told me that I had affected him in a way that was not completely unfavorable.
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This paradoxical blend of the practical and the unworldly lends depth and texture to his best work, but it was a volatile mix and didn't always work.
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The two names were known even to the still rather unworldly Dena.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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The two names were known even to the still rather unworldly Dena.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Could it be that, beneath their veneer of unworldly innocence, they're all secretly gagging for it?
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He was a kind soul; completely unworldly in every sense of the word.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Booklovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly and perhaps a few of them are so.
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A timeless and unworldly quality, unaffected by the flux of material life, was sought, for which unchanging models served successfully.
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What I have called the numinous, meaning the presence of the unworldly or the metaphysical, more accurately the presence of elevated religious feelings, will intrude under certain circumstances.
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So far Rooney's unworldly football powers have seen him break a foot at Euro 2004, break a foot before the Germany World Cup and recover in time to get sent off in the quarter-final, failing to qualify for the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland and harrumphing listlessly around in South Africa last year complaining of boredom and apparently distracted by "events off the field".
Wayne Rooney can be England's top player – as long as he isn't picked | Harry Pearson
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He was unworldly, but he was building an impressive record collection and read the New Musical Express from cover to cover, each week.
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This paradoxical blend of the practical and the unworldly lends depth and texture to his best work, but it was a volatile mix and didn't always work.
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Lighthouse flashed its warning in through our open bedroom window all the night long and made us dream of wicked and unworldly monster automobiles bearing down upon us with a great blazing _phare_ which blotted out all else.
The Automobilist Abroad
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There is no stronger case than that of the wild, unworldly and perishing stock which we commonly call the Celts, of whom your friends the MacNabs are specimens.
The Complete Father Brown
