Sentence examples for worldly men from inspiring English sources

But worldly men know better: the land is carved up into countries.

I don't think Charlotte Brontë had met enough worldly men – he sounds like an unworldly woman's idea of one.

And, as penalty for entering, shed the attitudes of worldly men regarding us and this celestial sphere, where now your spirit begs to enter.

And the worldly men who conspire to blacken Luise's name (because she has been foolish enough to love above her station) could give Richard III some competition in the art of destroying inconvenient lives.

The architects of the 1892 ballet were worldly men: Tchaikovsky, the composer; Ivan Vsevolozhsky, the director of the Imperial Theaters; Marius Petipa, the balletmaster; and, when Petipa fell ill, Lev Ivanov, his deputy.

This was partly because Gere's husband and Gail's husband, Jim, a Marine, were older, more worldly men whom the younger Kennedys looked up to; and partly the parents' influence.

Richard Haas is a worldly man.

Alan Johnson, business striver and narcissistic sociopath, is a worldly man.

The real Wolsey was a worldly man of great power (both secular and ecclesiastical).

He was not a worldly man, nor given to fits of moral introspection.

Last Wednesday, Rachelle, a preschool teacher nicknamed Blondie, expressed her deep need for a worldly man.