Sentence examples for worldly friends from inspiring English sources

I try to imagine myself bidding goodbye to worldly friends and wanton pleasures, voluntarily tethering myself to outmoded rituals and circumscribed possibilities.

The very thought of its plot, with its high-spirited misanthropy — a club of worldly friends meet once a week, each of them competing to bring along the most complete idiot he can find — still makes me laugh.

It was a sprawling and ramshackle place, and he was sadly out of his element, catching birds and playing cards; his worldly friends sent mocking regards to the chickens.

The very thought of its plot, with its high-spirited misanthropy a club of worldly friends meet once a week, each of them competing to bring along the most complete idiot he can find still makes me laugh.

To the reader, that may seem the least of it; we find ourselves getting involved with the fate of an attractive, hapless boy towed in the wake of dynamic parents and their worldly friends.

More worldly friends will stop off here for dinner in cool Mimasu-ya, reserving tables overlooking the water, or in the sublime French kaiseki restaurant, Misoguigawa, where a girl in kimono sits by your table throughout the meal, making delectable small talk in impeccable English.

Her writing is like the conversation of a clever, worldly friend who we wish would come by more often.

I learned about the British magazine The Face in high school, when a worldly friend started talking about it and I pretended to know what it was.

A week had also changed the prospect of ordering takeout; it was now less the emergency Seconal borrowed from a worldly friend and more the first step of a downward spiral ending who knows where.

Another resident asked me how many leagues away the United States was, and his more worldly friend corrected him: The proper question was, "How many days does it take to get there on the bus?" I had come a long way to find a little bit of home.

Joycelyn (Anna Simpson) begins to gravitate toward a more popular, worldly group of friends and seems impatient with the passive, slow-moving Maria Melissa Martinezz), whose unexpected pregnancy is the dramatic linchpin of the film.