They have a deep grievance, a conviction that the world has treated them unfairly.
At first, she is afraid of how the world will treat her.
There's a big difference between how the world treated him and you are treating me.
"He thought the world had treated him incredibly well," she said.
The world has treated them well, and clearly they expected nothing less.
It's the most powerful statement you can make about the way the world has treated you.
Will the real world treat this toy creation fairly?
She was still indignant that the world had treated him so poorly.
It is a comfort to watch the world treat its creatures kindly.
He thinks the world of them and they in turn treat him like their child.