'worldly society' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe a society that is concerned with material and social success rather than spiritual or intellectual pursuits. For example, "In today's worldly society, people are more focused on achieving financial success than developing a meaningful worldview."
But he became increasingly ill at ease in such worldly society and began to quarrel with his fellow philosophes.
Antoine Le Maistre (1608 58), Catherine's eldest son, abandoned worldly society and placed himself under the spiritual direction of Saint-Cyran.
They are rather two opposed societies with antagonistic orders of value that intersect both state and church and in each case show the radical incompatibility of the love of God with the values of worldly society.
Inevitably, the establishment of a "multimedia" university in Malaysia is one of the chief ingredients of Mahathir Mohamad's grandiose plan to spend $40 billion to create a latter-day Silicon Valley in his own country.As this sort of thinking takes hold among politicians, the university moves ever further from its origin as a sanctuary from the worldly society around it.
An inconsistency is revealed: Why do so many evangelicals expect "worldly" society to accept their strict views on sexuality, while evangelicals so happily accept this worldly society's biblically prohibited love for money?
He later was educated as a free scholar and then supported by a worldly Parisian society that appreciated his conversational genius.
Otherwise it can become misdirected toward worldly aims and society torn apart by its destructive power.
The Brahman priest supports and enhances the mundane well-being of his client and the worldly estate of society through Vedic and other rituals.
When we tour abroad we tend to reach the most educated and worldly members of society.
Whig society was worldly, artistic, gossipy, liberal and not always polite.
It is surprising that many educated and worldly members of Arab society believe strongly in this principle of conspiracy, which puts more limits on progress and improvement.Amin Kawar Amman, Jordan* SIR - I recognised your cover photo of Salim bin Kabina, which was taken by Wilfred Thesiger during his travels in the Rub al Khali (the Empty Quarter) in Saudi Arabia in the 1940s and early 1950s.
