As society has become steadily more materialistic, Johnson declares, our churches have followed suit, giving up on the ascetic and ecstatic aspects of religion and emphasizing only the more worldly expressions of faith.
The expression 'the worldly path' (laukiko mārgaḥ) often occurs as a reference to the Lokāyata ('the followers of the worldly [practice]'), e.g. by Haribhadra in his ŚVS1.64.
If you're up for an award, you know that the TV cameras will be trained on you for the duration, and what you have to prepare is not just a speech, but something even more eloquent: a worldly yet generous facial expression, showing that you understand exactly why your rival has won, and that you are genuinely delighted for them.
During this period, resistance to religious intolerance and political and economic bondage; the evident failure of rulers to meet their obligations under natural law; and the unprecedented commitment to individual expression and worldly experience that was characteristic of the Renaissance all combined to shift the conception of natural law from duties to rights.
Whether the verse comes from an unidentified Lokāyata source, which is not impossible, or not, it is echoed by Jayarāśi in the above mentioned verse at the beginning of his work and the expression 'the worldly path' (laukiko mārgaḥ).
Worldly faces never look so worldly at a funeral.
She mixes folksy expressions with statistics and worldly observations, and assures listeners that their affairs, at home and farther afield, are safe in her hands.
They were worldly Muslim men who had found the expression for their personal alienation in the spurious legitimacy of extremism.
They are not, most of these 600,000 or so young applicants, applying for BAs in Being Martin Amis, in a world where originality of expression is the key to worldly success.
At first a purely religious vocabulary was employed, but soon the expressions began to oscillate between worldly and heavenly love.
