"the world is too much with someone" meaning in English

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Phrase

Etymology: In reference to The World Is Too Much with Us, a sonnet by William Wordsworth, written circa 1802. Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} the world is too much with someone
  1. Someone is excessively materialistic and distanced from nature. Wikipedia link: The World Is Too Much with Us, William Wordsworth
    Sense id: en-the_world_is_too_much_with_someone-en-phrase-hxpGKrYE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1990, Joseph Dewey, In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age, page 130:",
          "text": "Aided by Alistair Fuchs-Forbes, a British lecturer and healer whom More derides mercilessly as a fag reciting \"I Ching in a BBC accent\" (64), Doris begins to see that the world is too much with her, that the physical is the lowest denominator of human experience. She points out to More than his abandonment of the spiritual dimension has made their marriage a burned-out star, one collapsed into itself, unable to give light, just \"heavy heavy heavy\" (64).",
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