world-weary

How To Use world-weary In A Sentence

• I love the way Sarajevans express themselves; it's a kind of world-weary, mordant wit overlying an amazing ability to absorb and survive great suffering. A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book
• It was a victory to bring a smile to the face of even the most cynical and world-weary sport-watcher.
• He's the opposite of the sophisticated, cultured, world-weary foreign correspondent.
• This is a tough, cynical world with plenty of murders and world-weary cops trying their best to solve them.
• Lengthy bonding scenes follow in which, inevitably, the hardened, world-weary, cynical bodyguard learns to love the winsome little blonde.
• He reverts to the world-weary pundit voice known to viewers.
• ‘Good luck trying to find your trends,’ he said with a world-weary head shake.
• Fifteen years in the teaching profession had left him world-weary and cynical.
• While such toe-curling confessionals may grate with some, they nonetheless fill its forty-five minutes with a world-weary warmth and idealism to match the boundary-breaking beats.
• Plus, any band who produce We Care A Lot, a brutally fun hymn for the apathy generation is bound to grab any world-weary fifteen year old by the scruff of the neck.