Sentence examples for worldly interest from inspiring English sources

Pawon was probably a kind of anteroom to Borobudur, catering to the more worldly interest of pilgrims.

BOYD GATTON Worldly Interests Boyd Gatton moved to the United States in 1992 and was still discovering new interests.

"Worldly interests intervening during the pauses of perusal," he wrote, "modify, annul or counteract, in a greater or less degree, the impressions of the book".

His worldly interests, multi-talents, sense of humor and warm friendships were an inspiration to his family and all who knew him.

For many centuries the relative value of an active life and the performance of meritorious works (pravritti), as opposed to the renunciation of all worldly interests and activity (nivriti), has been a much-debated issue.

They are big, pitted, expansive books over which one treks, evening after evening, sometimes hungry, sometimes sunburned — you are in them so long that worldly interests intervene on your right and left.

In this context worldly interests and government itself are dwarfed by the importance of attaining salvation and of escaping from an astrologically determined fate and from the demons who embody the darkness.

The strong practical interest of the Laozi distinguishes it from any mystical doctrine that eschews worldly involvement.

Fleiss described Pryce as worldly and interesting.

By the standards of basketball coaches, they were worldly men with interests far beyond the court.

We don't reflect on the worldly arrangements — the interests of wealth and power — that enable our adventures.