Sentence examples for worldly standards from inspiring English sources
In I Corinthians, Paul wrote, "Not many of you were wise by worldly standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.
By worldly standards, he's a failure with missing front teeth; by a writer's standards, he's a compelling egotist and adventurer, with an appealing streak of rue.
By worldly standards, the Plymouth Colony was doing great in 1642.
It was never supposed to be popular, at least not by worldly standards.
More generally, we're two middle-class white American dudes who believe in the transformative power of love, the struggle for community and the refusal of dispossession, which makes us both freaks by worldly standards.
Like most Americans vacationing in India, Jayojit is careful about what he eats and drinks; his parents, though worldly by Indian standards, are a generation too old to have spent much time abroad.
Jason: Indeed -- by worldly and/or American standards, we are freaks.
The standard worldly wise answer to this question is to answer no.
It simply means that the standards of worldly success and divine reward are quite different.
W. Somerset Maugham, the most successful writer of his time and maybe the most glamorous as well, set a dazzling standard for worldly glory that younger writers impotently envied.
If they like Emmylou Harris, they'll love Caitlin Rose, whose debut album Own Side Now reveals a voice as sweet as Patsy Cline's but a songwriting eye that brings a worldly frankness to country music's standard romantic fare.
