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Way of the World, The
noun
- a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
Example Sentences
This violence is the way of the world, the movie suggests, and the atrocities we’re witnessing — a burning hut evokes the wartime conflagrations of Elem Klimov’s “Come and See” — are as unexceptional as they are unbearable.
And isn’t that the all-too-familiar way of the world? the play seems to ask.
As they accompanied Wonder on “That’s the Way of the World,” the a cappella singers looked like they’d never even heard another Earth Wind & Fire song, much less be moved by one in any meaningful way.
Says Congreve, in the “Way of the World”:— “The gentlemen stay but to comb, madam, and will wait on you.”
That's a subjective judgment easier to arrive at the longer the list of existing states that say they recognize it as one — and, in the way of the world, the list includes a lot of established, economically powerful states, which are clustered in Europe.
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