"Better, probably," said Lizzie, with a world-weary tone that seemed to please her.

This spirit of Olympian entitlement, for all its genteel and world-weary tone, is as "agitated" and "strident" as anything that he dismisses.

Then, in what I imagine to be a cynical, world-weary tone, Pilate replies, "What is truth?"

Typical Mother that, the world-weary tone, as if we might well "see her out" in the next few minutes.

That is the argument made by Mr. Morvillo, using in turns a world-weary tone and then a forceful bluster.

Alomar again apologized for his action yesterday during a news conference at Yankee Stadium, where his body language and world-weary tone mirrored a plea to move on.

The Doctor replied with the world-weary tone that Chakotay had come to know and occasionally love.

As diverse as the music may be, there is a seam of despondency in Stipe's words, a world-weary tone of resignation.

"I'd have to say I'm getting worked on just about every way I can get worked on," Mr. Murphy said with a world-weary tone.

When asked why in a telephone conversation from Rome, he responded in a world-weary tone: "Ahhh, I had been through the whole saga of '1900.