Sentence examples for worldly advantages from inspiring English sources

And one felt that if one had had that white man's worldly advantages, one would never have become as bewildered and as joyless and as thoughtlessly cruel as he.

He fights at Waterloo and returns to Parma, where he joins the church for worldly advantage.

But Lizzy, when she thinks these things, hasn't thought as carefully as Charlotte has about what "worldly advantage" might mean.

When Charlotte first tells Lizzy about her decision, Lizzy is unequivocal in her response: Charlotte, she thinks, is "disgracing herself"; she has "sacrificed every better feeling to worldly advantage"; it will be, she thinks, "impossible" for her to be happy.

For Shinran, the working of Other Power is precisely the falling away of one's own calculative thinking, seeking religious or worldly advantage through one's own capacities.

But even the worldly rights and advantages that come with growing up in Miami pale beside the divine graces and eternal rewards that, for Pope Pius IX and like-minded 19th-century Catholics, were at stake for young Edgardo.

The first task was to negate the one-goal advantage that worldly wise Olympique Lyon had from the first leg in France.

The principal resources through which human beings may learn to draw advantages from adversities are fortitude, prudence, worldly knowledge (rerum experientia), and all sorts of helps (auxilia), such as material means, friends, authority, bodily strength and practical experience (exercitatio) (De utilitate, OO, II, 12a).

There is something incongruous about so worldly a squad as Chelsea's being taken advantage of in that manner.

Some are driven by a messianic ideology to seek not temporary advantage or influence, but an impossible transformation of worldly existence.

That our worldly arrangements are consonant with the natural ordering of the universe has many advantages; not the least being that the authority of nature is self-evident and requires no elaboration in the realm of ideology.