Sentence examples for worldly means from inspiring English sources

Would a kid bereft of the unstinting love, the intellectual curiosity, and the worldly means of the Suskinds be able to follow Owen's course?

In sum, when Christ had said he had come to bring a sword, even though he was not urging the deployment of worldly means, the teaching of love that he had sought to place in the hearts of men and women had led to a series of convulsions and cataclysms that were forcing us to obey the law of love or perish.

Rumi's esoteric and pantheistic teachings, along with his belief that "worldly power means nothing," have irritated the political authorities in many places.

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

But in the nineteen-twenties, writers and journalists started to use "sophisticated" to mean worldly wisdom, knowingness, and a grown-up sense of style.

He has disputed, especially, the filmmakers' suggestion that he built the site as a means to worldly ends.

Overworked, wealthy and worldly, they have the means to travel and the desire to get away from city life.

It doesn't matter if it's saying nice things or mean things, worldly things or spiritual things.

The Puritans, Weber argued, had accepted the cloak of worldly asceticism voluntarily, as a means of alleviating otherwise unbearable spiritual burdens.

You could take that to mean that all worldly action and ambition is in vain, or that the void of death that awaits us makes it irrelevant whether we do good or bad on Earth.

Yet every year a few movies break through the gore to channel the worldly panic that horror is meant to showcase.