First he had proved himself lamentably presumptuous by conducting the analysis himself rather than calling on the help of more worldly experts in Europe.
There are large billboards directed at them both: the tough, " take-charge, " or dapper older man, the glamorous, " worldly" young woman, both puffing away.
I do not say, that a prudent, worldly-wise man, with only negative virtues and qualities, may not sometimes obtain a smoother reputation than a wiser or a better man.
He was not a Kinois himself, one of that snooty so-sophisticated lot, and the other drivers outside the Grand called him Kisangani after the city where he was born, in the east.
Privately Miss Minchin disliked her, but she was far too worldly a woman to do or say anything which might make such a desirable pupil wish to leave her school.
As student Nekhludoff knew Selenin as a dutiful son, a true friend, and, for his years, an educated, worldly man, with great tact, always elegant and handsome, and uncommonly truthful and honest withal.