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Present-day movements, however, tend to subordinate religion to this-worldliness rather than to other-worldliness, and by just that much they take out of religion its real significance.

His call for social involvement was a capstone to decades of religious this-worldliness.

He is the poet of this-worldliness; he celebrates love, food, drink, music, friendship, conversation, and the changing, changeless beauties of Nature.

Evidently Irving, like Goldsmith and Oliver Wendell Holmes, owed his amazing influence largely to his cheerful and wholesome this-worldliness.

There is in him this-worldliness, but not other-worldliness, his characters not seeming to the full to have a sense of the invisible world.