world-weariness

• “Call me blase -- I do not mind, if by blase is meant the world-weariness, intellectual, artistic, sensational, which can come to a young man of thirty.”

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• “But while she tends toward a bleak sensibility, she lacks the world-weariness of the cynic and the defeatism of a genuine miserablist.”

  The Guardian: Annie Lennox: 'I would have been perfect as a man'

• “But the 25-year-old Toronto native is best known for sentiments less common to hip-hop: vulnerability, world-weariness and melancholy.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Rapper Who Also Sings

• “Handsome and intense to the end but exuding world-weariness, Ryan played a tragically bitter outlaw in Mr. Peckinpah's explosive masterpiece "The Wild Bunch" (1969) and a more genial hired gun in Richard Brooks's suspenseful action adventure "The Professionals" (1966).”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hollywood's Heroic Villain

• “Again, the voice is the draw here, combining the world-weariness of Le Carré with the vinegar of Simenon.”

  VinceKeenan.com

• “KEN TUCKER: John Prine possesses a sage goofiness, a wit untouched by world-weariness.”

  NPR: John Prine: Midwestern Mind Trips To The Nth Degree

• “Fifties uptightness and English reserve fuel a knock-out comic scene? in which Peter Sullivan, dripping with world-weariness, fails to tell his son the facts of life.”

  The Guardian: The Late Middle Classes; The Crucible; Ingredient X

• “In the spirit of Monday's dance theme, their first selection was a waltz, albeit an unconventional one, with Calderazzo swept up in a romantic whirl, while Marsalis on sax brought a mournful world-weariness to the party.”

  The Washington Post: Kennedy Center's 'An American Playlist,' Day 2: Dance and jazz mix delightfully

• “You know, we answer this question every day," Boudreau said, world-weariness coating his every word.”

  The Washington Post: Boudreau backs his defense

• “Their potentially fresh perspectives and idealism, not yet tainted by world-weariness or routine.”

  The Huffington Post: Dan Reimold: Student Journalists Are Not 'Subhuman'

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