For these men, says Mr Philbrick, the Plains were a strange and unworldly place.

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How did so unworldly a group get involved in such worldly dealings?

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This fraternal, almost unworldly attitude is a common feature of many COINs.

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Thanks to the elegant understatement of Mr. Hill's portrayal, the unworldly Pete provides a wonderful foil to Mr. Pitt's eccentric, flamboyant Billy in just about every scene they share.

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It would be unworldly to expect a government on the eve of an election to be explicit about its intended cuts, and the depths of a recession are not the place to wield the axe anyway.

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Saddam's brashness, and the criminal abandon with which his officers looted Kuwait, stripping even the marble from its palaces to add to Saddam's own, revealed for all to see his nature as an unworldly and power-mad brute.

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He could seem unworldly.

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