Vexing the Production Code censors with its relaxed take on criminal behavior and tolerance of spouse-swapping, the movie played down the novel's anti-imperialist bent but maintained its worldly attitude — something for which Capote took credit.
On the other hand, we decry the variant that "take[s] pride in their country's distinct, if not unique, status" — in this case, pride in our status as "a non-soccer-following country," which he likens to the pride of the Russians in their ability to drink large quantities of vodka or the pride of the French in their worldly attitude toward erotic adventure.
Though sincerely religious, he showed in daily records how commercial life in New England replaced rigid Puritanism with more worldly attitudes.
Early calls for reform grew out of criticism of the worldly attitudes and policies of the Renaissance popes and many of the clergy.
Périer may have exaggerated the other-worldly attitude of his late brother-in-law, when he wrote that, for more than ten years before his death, Pascal was aware of "the vanity and nothingness of all these types of knowledge, and that he had acquired such disgust for them that he could hardly tolerate intelligent people devoting their time to them and speaking seriously about them" (I, 459).
Like many of Bellow's other novels, Seize the Day exhibits an ambivalent attitude toward worldly success, and it follows its sensitive, gullible protagonist's quest for meaning in a chaotic and hostile world.
Perhaps it is not surprising that someone who has spent his life studying such men as Sir Thomas More and Raleigh should have an ambivalent attitude towards worldly power and ambition.
The scholars, selected based on their leadership, entrepreneurial attitude, and worldly curiosity, are slated to earn a one-year master's at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
As Jesus stated, "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Church teaching on the tenth commandment is directed toward this same attitude toward worldly goods, termed "poverty of spirit".
And, as penalty for entering, shed the attitudes of worldly men regarding us and this celestial sphere, where now your spirit begs to enter.
Soon, Kano — a quiet, stone-cold killer with little worldly experience but a steely attitude — sets men's hearts aflame throughout the unit, sparking deadly rivalries among his cohorts and rattling his commanders, notably the cunning and tautly controlled Toshi (Takeshi Kitano).
