| Most of them feature sparkle-eyed children with an innocent faith in wonder winning out over cynical world-weary adults. |
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| His growling voice, verging on the world-weary, hints at the ancient blues roots of his songs. |
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| It was a victory to bring a smile to the face of even the most cynical and world-weary sport-watcher. |
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| The image of anxious and world-weary detectives puffing frantically on cigarettes outside interview rooms may still be a hallmark of TV drama. |
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| This is a tough, cynical world with plenty of murders and world-weary cops trying their best to solve them. |
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| If his concern is with a number of unfortunate people dying, then just let him note the tragedy and leave the world-weary evaluations alone. |
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| She issues world-weary, no-nonsense wisdom as she tries, repeatedly, to convince heavyset Deb that bigger is better. |
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| Her boss, Keith, is a world-weary figure whose vast experience is matched by his ineffectiveness. |
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| The man operating the cash register sighed in a world-weary fashion and darted his eyes around to ensure there weren't too many people around. |
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| Rawlins operates on the streets, filtering the ghetto life around him through a world view that is cynical to the point of world-weary. |
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| We learn about her politics, her home life, and we become very familiar with her world-weary wit, but still she fails to ring true as a person. |
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| So I tried stand-up, with the idea of joining the chosen few looking laconic and world-weary in the bars every night. |
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| We still live in an age of martyrs and heroic saints, of apostates and world-weary skeptics. |
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| Slim, round-shouldered, with a feint moustache, he looked careworn and world-weary from the moment he graduated to international cricket. |
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| Alongside poetry by pleading refugee students is poetry by a tired and world-weary volunteer. |
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| Of square-jawed cowboys, relentless Mounties and world-weary police detectives. |
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| Jonathan had looked restrained, almost world-weary, and perhaps a little jaded even. |
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| Standing backstage, the world-weary piano player clenched his small hands together. |
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| He looked world-weary although he'd never seen any place outside of Devonshire. |
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| Lengthy bonding scenes follow in which, inevitably, the hardened, world-weary, cynical bodyguard learns to love the winsome little blonde. |
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| Pop music has always possessed a fetish for the combination of youth and musical skill, apparently since it takes a mature, world-weary mind to write a catchy pop hook. |
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| It's great cinema too, built on the rock-solid foundation of this world-weary script. |
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| The singer's scratchy voice and world-weary acoustic songs are nastily refreshing, and his lyrics are positively bewitching. |
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| He may be a little world-weary, but behind the half-beard and the straggly locks there's the faintest trace of a smile. |
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| Now a world-weary former art student, she enters the botanica because there's nowhere else to go. |
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| It has an old-fashioned, world-weary stoicism that lends a potentially ludicrous story emotional heft. |
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| McKean looks so fragile and world-weary as he speaks in his Chicago accent, he seems to require rescue. |
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| He's the opposite of the sophisticated, cultured, world-weary foreign correspondent. |
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| His Tony is a sad-faced, world-weary, consumptive character with little to live for or care about seemingly other than his godson. |
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| I expect world-weary people, who show the physical and emotional scars of time on the inside and hold a high level of cynicism about the outside world. |
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| He reverts to the world-weary pundit voice known to viewers. |
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| He's cynical, world-weary and he won't call you the next day. |
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| And he acknowledged being worn, enervated and world-weary. |
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| Alternative rock was literally dying on the vine, when along came this haunting beautiful eulogy that captured America's world-weary spirit and the Seattle sound. |
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| It is unfortunate, but appropriate, given his world-weary, hangdog demeanour, that one of his last films was titled The Sad Sack. |
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| Plus, any band who produce We Care A Lot, a brutally fun hymn for the apathy generation is bound to grab any world-weary fifteen year old by the scruff of the neck. |
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| Connecting with a natural landscape, and with the people who inhabit it, is a tonic for the world-weary, and fosters spiritual and emotional health. |
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| Or, worse, they are contrived to sound tired, perhaps in an attempt to come off as world-weary. |
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| Lap steel guitar slides next to gently-strummed acoustic guitars capturing a languid, world-weary spirit. |
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| It was possible to see even the Monica Lewinsky affair from this angle, for all the bemusement it may have caused us supposedly more world-weary Europeans. |
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| Lap steel guitar glides next to gently strummed acoustic guitars, capturing a languid world-weary beauty. |
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