But there is a point at which unworldliness becomes folly. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
This unworldliness is elusive, ubiquitous, full of disguise. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
Dortmunder shook his head, astonished at such unworldliness. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned Hopes]
"He taught the middle way, not a way of austerity or grim unworldliness.". From Wordnik.com. [Beliefwatch: WWBD?] Reference
Their very impracticality and unworldliness was what attracted me to them. From Wordnik.com. [Times are hard... for philosophers...] Reference
But I stayed where I was, the earthiest worldling in a dress of unworldliness. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
Edgar Allan Poe wrote, the year before his death, "in the sense of the most utter unworldliness.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Through long acquaintance, Hassan knew that this was not entirely unworldliness on the man's part. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
I mean a singular unworldliness of thought and feeling; a cherished idealism; an inborn magnanimity. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
Let us not be misled by the music and the seeming unworldliness of these words about winged flight from. From Wordnik.com. [The Threshold Grace] Reference
It needed the Olympian unworldliness of an irresponsible rich man of the shareholding type, a Ruskin or. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
His profile was a noble one, given a patina of unworldliness by night and stars and the fitful illumination of firelight. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
Of course, the writer sneaks in that little allusion to cash--the "subscription"--which undermines Macklyn's supposed unworldliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Biblicals] Reference
And it seemed now as if, with the death of her unhappy sister, there had also died in Madame Dravikine the last vestige of unworldliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
And as life awakens and reality enters, either the grace or the sentiment or the passion of unworldliness is more and more distinctly present. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
Celimene is worldliness: Alceste is unworldliness. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
This is not unworldliness in the least, merely hedonism. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Fire] Reference
The unworldliness of the project likewise weighed with him. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference
There was a refreshing atmosphere of unworldliness about her. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference
Their belief in this possibility is a measure of their unworldliness. From Wordnik.com. [Sic Semper Tyrannis] Reference
Apostle, he was untouched by contact with goodness and unworldliness. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
And if there are men so worldly as not to be attracted to unworldliness in a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
He is little more than a boy in years, and he has a boy's simplicity and unworldliness. From Wordnik.com. [Without a Home] Reference
In spite of her unworldliness and lack of practical training, the strong common-sense of. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Trembled] Reference
It pleased her imagination by its essential unworldliness, its idealism and individuality of outlook. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
This unworldliness -- this impossibility, if you please -- is characteristic of intellectual progression. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac] Reference
That this unworldliness of the birds has any religious or theological significance I do not myself suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
I love you for all your mad dreams and dear unworldliness, for your struggling and striving for the highest. From Wordnik.com. [There was a King in Egypt] Reference
And if there are men so worldly as not to be attracted to unworldliness in a woman, Henderson was not one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journey in the World] Reference
The miller would not have felt the appeal of unselfishness and unworldliness, because his ideal of life is tranquil prosperity. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Fire] Reference
What, I suppose, will strike any reader of Scott's history and writings, is his bold unworldliness and vigorous independence of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference
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