There's a certain world-weariness about them, or perhaps I should say Universe-weariness.

Desire fails, both in narrator and his beloved, and is replaced by world-weariness.

Then he glanced away, his features retreating into an expression of ragged world-weariness.

The smell of gin and world-weariness was heavy on the air.

The prevalence of this world-weariness of course needs explanation, and the cause is rather obscure.

TENNIS:A world-weariness hung over Roger Federer when he came in from an almost perfect third-round match.

The thing stamped upon his face and burning in his eyes was not world-weariness, disappointment, despair.

This was not a moment for world-weariness.

I promise we'll return to regular programming next weekend with an entire jaded page dedicated to world-weariness.

There is also world-weariness about such crackdowns.

Lavish entertainment and outrageous gambling do nothing to alleviate his world-weariness, while his estates and tenants languish neglected.

An air of fatigue and world-weariness is about all her work, even when it is most stimulating with its altruism.

Just satiety and world-weariness.

But in a moment Christine's face changed, resuming, like a veil over its youth and bloom, the look of world-weariness.

Gothos sighed his world-weariness.

A deep sigh, in which world-weariness, irritation, and a craving for half an ounce of Condor ready-rubbed mingled in equal parts.