Sentence examples for worldly from inspiring English sources

Far from being original, I find myself part of a narrative told with increasing fluency, as a steady stream of other European and American passport holders of African descent arrive at Ghana's Kotoka International airport, collect their worldly possessions from shipping containers at Tema port and search for homes in Accra's popular residential areas – Cantonments, East Legon and the Spintex Road.

In a reversal of Dickens' tale, the nice Mr Blackadder breaks bad when he sees how much more fun he could be having if he stopped giving all his worldly goods to con artists and charitable causes.

There's a wealth of innocence in that conclusion which makes us lentil-eaters feel quite worldly.

Wearing a mitre and carrying the pastoral staff, Francis compared people whose values are worldly rather than spiritual to children building sandcastles that come crashing down.

Dressed in simple white garments and freed from their worldly possessions, they are following in the footsteps of the prophet Muhammad.

Three million Muslims arrived in Mecca this week for the annual hajj pilgrimage, an event that has mutated from a simple, spartan rite of passage, in which pilgrims give up their worldly goods, into a big-bucks business worthy of Las Vegas – with the overblown architecture to match.

But of course, this all changes when she meets out-of-this-worldly beautiful Noah, a guitar player in a band, and they inevitably fall in love.

However, the joy of Delft is its other-worldly feel.

I would go to these lunches with Martin and Christopher Hitchens and Clive James, and they'd be tremendously witty and clever and worldly-wise, and I'd be cringing over my pasta wondering 'What can I contribute to this?'.

No doubt Bayliss is too worldly-wise to jump to the conclusion that he is joining a well-oiled juggernaut that requires him only to keep the wheels on the track.

Instead they offer a vision of what you might call the "avuncular state", worldly-wise, offering a nudge in the right direction, perhaps pulling strings on your behalf without your even noticing.One example of soft paternalism has already attracted the interest of governments and the backing of this newspaper: employees should be signed up for company pension schemes by default.