Sentence examples for worldly prospects from inspiring English sources

Born in Ireland to an English family (he would always refer to "the Irish" as if he did not belong to them), he had few worldly prospects.

Cardinal Szoka took a more worldly view.

Ames has lived in lonely abstraction for so long that he does not know what to do with the prospect of worldly attraction, and therefore turns it unworldly; he describes Lila to their son as "someone with whom the Lord might have chosen to spend some part of His mortal time".

I will eventually be happy at the prospect of my worldly success.

However, in the case of concept-independent domains, such as logic and mathematics, or the nature of worldly phenomena like life or mind, the prospects seem more problematic.

Ms. Sordi Dewell's husband, Andy Dewell, for example, was less blithe than she about the prospect of sharing all their worldly possessions when she raised the idea of a swap last summer.

They were better educated and more worldly, and their opinions weren't influenced by the prospect of financial gain.

Millennialism (from the Latin word for "1,000 years") is the branch of eschatology concerned with the earthly prospects of the human community, rather than the worldly and eternal prospects of the individual.

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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.

Such is the kind of blunt arithmetic that defines the lives of thousands of young Poles: their generation may be hailed for being so worldly and well-travelled, but those qualities are often traceable not to joyous wanderlust, but a deep pessimism about the prospects of towns like this.