We have temporarily suspended our skepticism and our world-weariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerald Sindell: The Universal Rules of Framing Part II: What Does The Proscenium Frame?] Reference

The press must be willing to set aside its world-weariness and join the crusade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power To Change What's 'Cool'] Reference

A column by George Will affects a world-weariness in commenting on a recent report.    From Wordnik.com.  [March 2005] Reference

KEN TUCKER: John Prine possesses a sage goofiness, a wit untouched by world-weariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Prine: Midwestern Mind Trips To The Nth Degree] Reference

I also like how you pin down the world-weariness and moral ambiguity of the characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ladies of the Noir - Pt 1 - The Blue Gardenia (1953)] Reference

Lieberman is revolting, but above all he conveys a profoundly depressing world-weariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lieberman To Break Vow Not To Attack Obama Tonight] Reference

No balding head, no paunch, no drooping beer-frothed moustache, no cynical world-weariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come To Grief]

Even the passionate scenes had a world-weariness to them that was actually a great relief to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dog Days] Reference

Their potentially fresh perspectives and idealism, not yet tainted by world-weariness or routine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Reimold: Student Journalists Are Not 'Subhuman'] Reference

They spiral downward and won't get better (ennui and world-weariness always add good spice here).    From Wordnik.com.  [Formula for Disaster] Reference

Upon rebirth, purged of resentments and world-weariness, your soul comes out all bright and shiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russ Wellen: Hell on Earth? How About Hell in Heaven?] Reference

A lot of the exhaustion and world-weariness that we blame on being busy isn't from busyness at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan Borysenko: How To Find Peace] Reference

"You know, we answer this question every day," Boudreau said, world-weariness coating his every word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boudreau backs his defense] Reference

Wisconsin wishful thinking woodstock wordless wednesday work world-weariness worst president EVER xmas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2002-10-01] Reference

Again, the voice is the draw here, combining the world-weariness of Le Carré with the vinegar of Simenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [VinceKeenan.com] Reference

'If I had to check every word I prim,' the editor had said with world-weariness, 'our sales would plummet. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penalty]

It shouldn't be translated as "world-weariness,"'Frank would lecture us,' that's much too mild for what Lilly's got.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hotel New Hampshire]

But in a moment Christine's face changed, resuming, like a veil over its youth and bloom, the look of world-weariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

She doesn't have the smugness and world-weariness of someone who's been alive for a long time, and would for years more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference

The deep examination of my world-weariness lead to that scholarly twilight where truth and fiction effortlessly coalesce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suicide Rough Drafts] Reference

Themes of world-weariness, innocence wounded or otherwise, idealism, entropy and the hope of renewal tend to pre-dominate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

The Preacher in Ecclesiastes gives eloquent expression to world-weariness by saying that there is nothing new under the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Process Theism] Reference

European world-weariness mingles with American optimism in this accomplished novel, dense with the scrap material of the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deadwood Beetle: Summary and book reviews of The Deadwood Beetle by Mylene Dressler.] Reference

What is the significance of his candor, skepticism, world-weariness, and, finally, his physical and moral collapse in Shanghai?.    From Wordnik.com.  [When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro: Questions] Reference

Margolin is really lovely, but also very talented and she imbues Lisa with the perfect combination of innocence and world-weariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [David and Lisa (1962)] Reference

But while she tends toward a bleak sensibility, she lacks the world-weariness of the cynic and the defeatism of a genuine miserablist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annie Lennox: 'I would have been perfect as a man'] Reference

I mean again, that's, his sadness was sort of a world-weariness and a product of life choices and all that kind of stuff, whereas I was a little kid, you know?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Transformative Year For Don Draper, Jon Hamm] Reference

She looked far away with her sweet world-weariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awkward Age] Reference

She mixes a softness with a scorched world-weariness to create a compelling woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Film.com Movie Blog] Reference

She stares out at her audience from a round face that is testimony to an unending world-weariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Head Butler] Reference

The thing stamped upon his face and burning in his eyes was not world-weariness, disappointment, despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chronicle — Complete] Reference

And yet the circles about the eyes and the drooping lids hint of world-weariness, and speak the message of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference

An air of fatigue and world-weariness is about all her work, even when it is most stimulating with its altruism.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy] Reference

In their contests with the invaders of India, they have thrown off all world-weariness, and become strong; Prince.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference

Particularly good is Yvonne Furneaux as Carol's sister Helene, who has an engaging mix of world-weariness and sexuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obsessed With Film] Reference

I am a mixture of enthusiasm and world-weariness; the scion of a decrepit race is not likely to be any better than that, you know!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Dramas] Reference

Then there's the cynical, depressive Jaques, played with Beckett-style world-weariness by Stephen Dillane, who already seems half-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY1 - Top Stories] Reference