Sentence examples for worldly thinking from inspiring English sources

It is a novel that displays a formidable familiarity with élite knowledge, and takes for granted a capacity for both abstract and worldly thinking.

But these temptations come from fleshly mindsets, old programming, or worldly thinking within our old attitudes.

Isn't this kind of thinking — worldly and personal, abstract and concrete, essayistic and dramatic — exactly what the novel is for?

These days when we think about women and power, we are usually thinking about worldly, professional power.

Begin the practice of thinking in a more worldly manner.

For those people who are thinking this is seeming other worldly, you will have to pay taxes in a couple of years, and trust me your parents are paying taxes now.

Reference of anything like the Fregean, worldly kind plays no part in Kuhn's thinking.

In this way of thinking, the FBI's request is not just shortsighted and worldly but immoral.

After seven days in Davos seven days of thinking deep thoughts, saying important-sounding things and schmoozing and drinking we worldly big shots and wannabes are humbled and drained.

All this is fine, yet I can't help thinking that the Stephen King original, with its spook-ridden, other-worldly junketings, gets in the way of Kubrick's grim vision, finally cheapening and distorting it.

At dances, we danced to "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Seconds" and "I Will Follow," thinking about the Troubles and nuclear war and devotion, feeling riled up, worldly, and serious at once.