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  • n  sadness on thinking about the evils of the world

  • And the affectation of Julian Casablancas' world-weariness is slowly beginning to sound like character.
  • Adams is also known for affecting a world-weariness beyond his years, and Demolition has plenty of posing.
  • Much of Stewart's humor seems to spring from an underlying terrain of world-weariness.
Quotes

  • Toby Dodge in Reuters
    The lower turnout I think would reflect cynicism but also world-weariness with the vote. You had that huge tidal wave of expectation in 2005 ...... and that crashed up against the reality of a fairly incompetent ruling elite,said Toby Dodge,...
  • Susan Sontag in The Nation Newspaper
    Susan Sontag wrote of these reactions in terms of "American innocence and European sophistication; American pragmatism and European intellectualising; American energy and European world-weariness......"
  • Vera Farmiga in USA Today
    The script is about encounters, people breaking and entering into each others lives,Farmiga says. "Despite her world-weariness, I found her character very blunt, humorous. I was drawn to that contradiction. Sometimes the characters I...

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