Worldweariness

“You get a hold of yourself,” he said contemptuously. “Spare me your bile and worldweariness; my wife would not agree with you."

He praised Mitchum, always his favorite actor and interview, whose worldweariness was the lost soul of noir.

As the grizzled, almost-retired lawman on the thieves' trail, Bridges adds a layer of mordant worldweariness to “Hell or High Water.”

"Germany, land of drugs, of escapism and worldweariness, had been looking for a super-junkie," Norman Ohler, the author of Blitzed: Drugs In Nazi Germany, writes. "And it had found him, in its darkest hour, in Adolf Hitler."

Juliet's worldweariness and face-powder dry wit make her an affecting, engaging companion, but not necessarily one to love: she lacks the warmth of Atkinson's most compelling characters.