"worldly pursuits" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe activities, goals, or interests that focus on material success or pleasure in the present world, rather than spiritual or intellectual pursuits. Example: "He gave up his worldly pursuits and became a monk, dedicating himself to a life of meditation and simplicity."
And while Mr. Rohmer's characters are involved in various worldly pursuits -- as antique dealers, proto-yuppie businessmen, ethnographers or government functionaries -- we tend to see them on vacation, at dinner parties or at lunch.
Goose sees the girls seemingly destined to grow apart as Flo, set on university, becomes drawn to Christianity (not Catholicism, although she is holding rosary beads on the cover) and Renée turns to more worldly pursuits.
Rather than placing religion as an enemy to material objects, Gandhi said that the Gita draws "no line of demarcation between salvation and worldly pursuits... [It shows] that religion must rule even our worldly pursuits".
But it also matters in the very worldly pursuit of getting a strong, workable climate change agreement at a crunch UN summit in Paris in December.
(Manohla Dargis)20110623 'Bill Cunningham New York' (No rating, 1 24) Richard Press has made a sensitive portrait of a spiritual man whose devotion to fashion photography, that most worldly of pursuits, has chronicled an era.
(Manohla Dargis)20110616 'Bill Cunningham New York' (No rating, 1 24) Richard Press has made a sensitive portrait of a spiritual man whose devotion to fashion photography, that most worldly of pursuits, has chronicled an era.
(Dargis) 'Bill Cunningham New York' (No rating, 1 24) Richard Press has made a sensitive portrait of a spiritual man whose devotion to fashion photography, that most worldly of pursuits, has chronicled an era.
But the more intriguing comparisons arise from the show's two sets of large-scale pendants on big themes: a pair of allegorical paintings contrasting the pursuit of heavenly bliss with the pursuit of worldly gratification, and two works alluding to the differences between nature and civilization.
But the more subtle and sustained humor in this series has to do with the sardonic attitude the Sicilians take toward strangers who view them as happy peasants, incapable of understanding their more worldly (and often criminal) pursuits.
Prelates were blinded by the pursuit of worldly power.
In her pursuit of worldly success, the loveless Olivia has jettisoned her personal life.
