1 This may imply world-weariness or a no-bullshit attitude.

2 Poignancy was largely subsumed into world-weariness, resurfacing in spasms of authenticity.

3 King Lear and Macbeth show greater feelings of world-weariness. In the latter two tragedies, the sense of despair in the protagonists reaches the summit.

4 His Meditations, with their emphasis on the vicissitudes of perpetual change, exude an air of world-weariness.

5 Axolotls sudden death rises to the philosophic layer, which achieves the graciousness and grace to all flesh, as well as a mood of pessimism and world-weariness.