How to Use world-weary in a Sentence
world-weary
adjective
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Sneaker wedges remind world-weary Gen Zers of a simpler era.
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Tara Gonzalez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
13 June 2023
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Still, Farrell shoulders most of the load as a world-weary sort harboring a big secret.
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Brian Lowry,
CNN,
4 Apr. 2024
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The two singers’ world-weary voices bring a heft of believability to this sad country track.
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Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
16 Sep. 2024
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The consolation on offer lives mostly in the prose, which feels hardened by a world-weary resolve not to be conned by false hope.
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Peter C. Baker,
The New Yorker,
7 July 2023
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Peter Haber plays Martin Beck, a middle-aged, world-weary cop who suffered a great tragedy early in his career.
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Andrea Duncan-Mao,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2024
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If there’s a woman on your list who seems a little world-weary (or whose toes are known to run cold), treat her to these cashmere pink-ballet slippers that evoke fluffy clouds at dusk.
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Katharine K. Zarrella,
WSJ,
16 Nov. 2023
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In both pictures, Yeoh plays a world-weary woman doing battle with a fiery younger one, who seems to scorn her life of devotion and sacrifice.
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Justin Changfilm Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2023
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Eddie Valiant is cut from the same cloth as many iconic hardboiled detectives, cynical and world-weary.
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Ew Staff,
EW.com,
17 Mar. 2023
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And Jackman, as this world-weary version of the character, turns in a sad, sweet performance that reminds the audience what made his Wolverine so iconic.
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Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
31 July 2024
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Again and again, this marvelous English performer, who died on Saturday at the age of 75, located the comedy as well as the gravity in a world-weary visage.
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Justin Chang,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec. 2023
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The track’s polished but never overdone production places the focus on Patrick’s warm yet world-weary vocal, and on this essential message.
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Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
2 Oct. 2023
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His latest song trades in hope and self-determination, while placing the focus on his voice, as smooth yet gritty and world-weary as the dirt and rocks embedded on a well-trod backroad.
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Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
13 May 2024
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His world-weary sister Emma (Natasha Wanganeen) is less hostile, but still skeptical that reopening this wound will amount to much.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 Feb. 2023
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Lourd is arresting as a haunted, world-weary girl, who clearly craves a connection with her mother but is looking for something that Shelley simply does not have to give.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
7 Sep. 2024
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Christopher Lloyd is stellar in dual roles, but the most notorious Addams is a certain sullen, world-weary daughter in a star-making performance.
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Chris Snellgrove,
EW.com,
16 Apr. 2024
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Berry is excellent as a world-weary mother who struggles to prepare her kids for an unforgiving world while still trying to carve out moments of the happiness that has long eluded her.
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Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
16 Sep. 2024
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Affleck, while remaining an industry pillar, acquired a secondary reputation for his world-weary grimace, seen through the lenses of the paparazzi who haunted him still.
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Lauren Michele Jackson,
The New Yorker,
16 Feb. 2024
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Annette has seen it all, providing loud, world-weary commentary while sucking down margaritas.
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David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Sep. 2024
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For Cench, turning violent slang into a cutesy educational shtick for digital audiences, rather than crafting world-weary street-corner narratives, could also be an incidental act of self-preservation.
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Carrie Battan,
The New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2023
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