world-weariness

Handsome and intense to the end but exuding world-weariness, Ryan played a tragically bitter outlaw in Mr. Peckinpah's explosive masterpiece "The Wild Bunch" (1969) and a more genial hired gun in Richard Brooks's suspenseful action adventure "The Professionals" (1966).

Hollywood's Heroic Villain Kristin M. Jones 2011

Again, the voice is the draw here, combining the world-weariness of Le Carré with the vinegar of Simenon.

VinceKeenan.com 2009

But while she tends toward a bleak sensibility, she lacks the world-weariness of the cynic and the defeatism of a genuine miserablist.

Annie Lennox: 'I would have been perfect as a man' Andrew Anthony 2010

Call me blase -- I do not mind, if by blase is meant the world-weariness, intellectual, artistic, sensational, which can come to a young man of thirty.

CHAPTER VIII 2010

But the 25-year-old Toronto native is best known for sentiments less common to hip-hop: vulnerability, world-weariness and melancholy.

A Rapper Who Also Sings John Jurgensen 2011

Fifties uptightness and English reserve fuel a knock-out comic scene? in which Peter Sullivan, dripping with world-weariness, fails to tell his son the facts of life.

The Late Middle Classes; The Crucible; Ingredient X 2010

In the spirit of Monday's dance theme, their first selection was a waltz, albeit an unconventional one, with Calderazzo swept up in a romantic whirl, while Marsalis on sax brought a mournful world-weariness to the party.

Kennedy Center's 'An American Playlist,' Day 2: Dance and jazz mix delightfully 2010

"You know, we answer this question every day," Boudreau said, world-weariness coating his every word.

Boudreau backs his defense 2010

KEN TUCKER: John Prine possesses a sage goofiness, a wit untouched by world-weariness.

John Prine: Midwestern Mind Trips To The Nth Degree 2010

KEN TUCKER: John Prine possesses a sage goofiness, a wit untouched by world-weariness.

John Prine: Midwestern Mind Trips To The Nth Degree 2010