Example Sentences

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Powell, a suburb of the capital Columbus, has a charming and old-worldly feel.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2020

But though you know he’s seething inside, he has an old-worldly dignity that eludes pretty much everyone else.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2011

When, five years ago, Manhattan's Macbeth Gallery gave him his first big metropolitan one-man show, critics were surprised by such old-worldly gusto in a young U.S. painter.

From Time Magazine Archive

She is chosen by a few leaders of perhaps the only old-worldly society left in the U. S. Miss Casanas is the debutante daughter of Banker B. C. Casanas.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I really do not know,” he would say in his courteous, old-worldly way, and few dared ask further.

From Marcia Schuyler by Lutz, Grace Livingston Hill