You have to learn, in other words, how to get your hands dirty. Between the innocence of the Christian and the worldliness of Machiavelli's new morality, there can be no reconciliation.
Then, in her 20s, she set about acquiring the tragic worldliness that the timbre of her voice conveyed.
Someone may consider it worldliness to talk about money.
Lack of worldliness or sophistication;naivet?
Once their public articles meant little for the worldliness, they would be happy to write novels.
Speaking without notes, the Pope said little in his homily to review his vision for the future of the church beyond urging his fellow cardinals to shun worldliness and be more focused on the Gospels.
This life, he declared, had very little to offer him, for he had seen through all the illusions of worldliness and had forsaken worldly ways.