Sentence examples for worldly question from inspiring English sources

But in recent months, monks at the site have been debating a very worldly question: How did a complex bet on the yen go so horribly wrong?

Mr. Hawking's book will address worldly questions -- Why do we exist?

The standard worldly wise answer to this question is to answer no.

His regular correspondents included Tennyson and Christina Rossetti; Dodgson wrote familiarly to Lord Salisbury when he was Prime Minister, giving him worldly counsel on the Irish question.

One of the more throwaway jokes in Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question concerns the worldly success that Sam Finkler wins with his move from dusty corners of Oxford philosophy into populist self-help books.

But "The Tree of Life" raises an ornery question: Could another movie, a worldly movie with jokes, sex, work, society — everything that Malick ignores — also capture spirit?

But the dissatisfying insipidity of these worldly edicts comes from the obviously begged question: should we not give generously and think charitably at all times?

"There is no question that he is more worldly than other managers," said Steve Phillips, who was Valentine's former boss with the Mets, went to the World Series with him and now accepts responsibility for the friction in their relationship.