Example Sentences

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In that video, he did not repudiate his faith and spoke well of it, albeit in this-worldly terms.

From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2023

It makes the work of holy men and women sound like the this-worldly tasks of the accountant, the mechanic or the dentist.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2018

Trade is a horizontal activity, carried out between people on the same level, and by definition it is a this-worldly activity.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2014

The attempt by blacks to construct a distinctively black theology has a strong this-worldly existentialist cast.

From Time Magazine Archive

The splendid concluding vision in which Mirzah sees the compensations for the ills of this life suggests a very different type of mind from that of the "this-worldly" closing paragraph in Franklin's apologue.

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth