worldliness

How To Use worldliness In A Sentence

• For this was the unfortunate moment which he chose to launch another of his impassioned diatribes at the worldliness, the luxury, the intrigues, the meretricious bedizenment of wealthy and high-born women. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
• His works are known for a certain voluptuousness and ripe sensuality, his figures lacking much of the grace and elegance of earlier bijin prints, but emphasizing in their place worldliness and a less disguised or mediated sexuality.
• Essentially, the azad were itinerant mendicants who regularly practised extreme ascetic styles of religious devotion, as a mark of their ‘other worldliness.’
• They are convinced that cupidity, that the desire for wealth, that the worldliness seen in avarice is the ultimate cause for all of the social ills that they see around them.
• For all his unworldliness, Gray has always been anxious about the reception of his work.
• One cannot have this as there is the slightest trace of worldliness.
• The conception of this landscape as ‘remote’ supports the common depiction of the Hoa Hao religion as one of inwardness or otherworldliness.
• This ingenuous charm contrasts with Mason's greater worldliness, greater opacity.
• Its beauty lay in its other-worldliness, its tone of kooky mystery.
• Modern fiction, like high heels, make-up, alcohol, TV, was indicative of worldliness - a give-away sign of the Devil's intent.