As if he were the only one in the world.
The others, he said, want to be with people they do not know in the physical world.
You think you've got all the time in the world.
He felt as if everything in the world is just fine.
And one day you'll be a force in the world.
One life is too short to read all the great books in the world.
And who in the world is going to buy these things?
Then we can hope to pay our way in the world.
She wanted so much to have some sense of her place in the world.
Perhaps he didn't know his place in the world any longer.