Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at worldly.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Worldly.

Examples

  • One of the more interesting books I've read in recent years, really since I've retired, was a book about the Renaissance about how — it's called The Worldly Goods by Lisa Jardin who talks about some of the economic aspects of the Renaissance.

    Oral History Interview with John Medlin, May 24, 1999. Interview I-0076. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1999

  • MTV: Swizz Beatz Bringing New "Worldly" Sounds to Jay-Z's Next Album

    XXL 2010

  • Listen Online: BBC Radio Interview: Jimmy Wales Wants to Make Wikipedia More "Worldly"

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Listen Online: BBC Radio Interview: Jimmy Wales Wants to Make Wikipedia More "Worldly"

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • In 1941, Gringoire would serialize her last completed novel, "All Our Worldly Goods," which has now appeared in English for the first time.

    A Supremely Disabused Writer André Aciman 2011

  • Ms. Nasar, the author of "A Beautiful Mind" (1998), the story of the mathematician John Nash, is a superb writer, fully meeting the standard set by Robert Heilbroner, in his "The Worldly Philosophers" (1953), for graceful writing on a difficult subject.

    Follow the Money James Grant 2011

  • The plot of "All Our Worldly Goods" spans approximately 30 years, from before World War I to the German invasion of France in 1940.

    A Supremely Disabused Writer André Aciman 2011

  • Least Worldly Travelers: We can maybe forgive the Amazing Race teams for not being able to find Ghana — the country they were in at the time — on a map last week, but there is no excuse for Nick DeCarlo asking a Ghanaian cabbie to drive him to ... the Arctic Circle.

    Top Moments: Crazy Love on Parenthood, Mad Men and The Good Wife 2010

  • The irony is that there are no Jewish characters in "All Our Worldly Goods"—as there are no Jewish characters in "Suite Française."

    A Supremely Disabused Writer André Aciman 2011

  • If the war did not end by the time "All Our Worldly Goods" ends—at the French surrender—then Némirovsky had no choice but to open the wounds again in her subsequent novel, "Suite Française."

    A Supremely Disabused Writer André Aciman 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.