Sentence examples for worldliness from inspiring English sources
noun
The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.
When we don't proclaim Jesus Christ, we proclaim the worldliness of the devil, the worldliness of the demon".
But Jim is the opposite: softly spoken and unassuming, possessing an interesting mix of unshockable worldliness and an appreciation of the simple things in life.
The great pre-Reformation wave of discontent in Europe was chiefly directed at the corrupt worldliness of the Catholic church, but it also had a political target.
He is to retire to the Mater Ecclesiae convent, founded in 1992 by John Paul II specifically to create a prayerful counterweight to the worldliness of the Roman Curia, the church's central administration.In Benedict's first sermon as pope, he asked the faithful to pray for their new shepherd "that I may not flee for fear of the wolves".
He may lack the worldliness and the wiles of his predecessor, Mr Demirel, and the charisma of the late President Turgut Ozal.
Then, in her 20s, she set about acquiring the tragic worldliness that the timbre of her voice conveyed.Compared with the anodyne, identikit bands churned out by talent shows, Ms Winehouse was an unusual pop idol.
Yet for a decade from the mid-1980s, he surpassed them both in the ratings, helped by a combination of worldliness, wit and objectivity (he never riled conservative Americans as much as Mr Rather did).
I am not sure, remembering my brief meeting with the gentlemanly Mr McGovern, that his lack of worldliness was to his discredit.
Instead of protecting their other-worldliness, universities nowadays celebrate their achievements as producers of useful knowledge.
Gershom, meanwhile, had become both pioneer and professor, transplanting Germany's academic culture to British-ruled Palestine.To be right when the world from which one sprang has gone so wrong is to risk a certain other-worldliness.
On board were Bertrand Piccard from Switzerland, Wim Verstraeten from Belgium and Andy Elson from Britain.It is often said that ballooning is other-worldly and, after the Breitling balloon had voyaged to Turkey and then down a bit to Syria, other-worldliness took charge.
