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Sentence Examples Two hours later, I was on my way out in a much more civilized manner than I made my way in. She is scared of the ruinous power of the media, for visual signs carry much greater importance in the civilized world than words. This image is not one of a warrior with anti-imperialist ideals, but of a civilized leader at peace with the West. The US has the highest rates of incarceration in the civilized world, and I mean we hold the record by miles. Can any sane person accept that a civilized world should function in this way? No sooner had he arrived than the isolation tore away his civilized exterior and made his inner savageness emerge. There must be no more division of the world into civilized and uncivilized, developed and underdeveloped. For the next five millennia McNeill observes a sharp spatial distinction between barbarians and civilized communities. What distinguishes civilized man from a barbarian must be acquired by every individual anew. No blood and guts, please, we're a civilized people, fastidious about what we allow in our living rooms. Nations must decide between playing self-interested politics or preparing to risk lives to enforce civilized norms. Its central figure is a charismatic, obsessive megalomaniac bent on avenging himself on the civilized world. In my opinion civilized debate is about being sentiently and considerately conscious in the first place. Every jot and tittle of civilized dining etiquette is but an act of civil religious piety. The idea of bombing innocent people sickens us, as it should any civilized nation. The article had gone on to becry fat ugly Americans who infested the world's civilized airports in baggy sweatsuits and squeaky tennis shoes. Perhaps the goal was to show that a cultured and civilized man could be reduced to a bloodthirsty assassin in extraordinary scenarios. In a civilized country, one would think, legislation to protect kids from violence and harassment in their schools should be unexceptionable. This isn't a movie you contemplate thoughtfully and have civilized discussions about while sipping bubble tea. If he is successful, one fears for civilized life in Toronto and other urban centres in Ontario. Show More Sentences A serial violator of civilized society, its government even last week was implicated in major drug trafficking into Australia. A civilized species does not kill, maim, butcher, blow up, whatever you want to call it. It seems natural and right that music which is not merely harmonic, but harmonious, should be highly regarded in civilized societies. Picasso's masterpiece articulates the horror and outrage felt by all civilized people at the wanton bombing of an open city. Tobacco's use in heathenish and healing rituals eventually would be replaced by its use in civilized medicine. Why can't we eat and drink like the civilized French, or Catalonians, or Romans? Let me make clear that I join every other civilized person in hoping the hostages are released unharmed. At times like these, I feel the urge to move away from home and try to find a more civilized environment to live in. All civilized societies should provide aid to those unable to obtain the means of subsistence. This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. He not only wants the best food, he wants to be handled in a civilized manner, too. Sitting their sons down in a civilized manner, they announce their intention to separate. So long as one nurses the hope of civilized co-existence, one tries to come to terms with the ground realities. Training a child to sit at table and eat food in a civilized manner is one of the basic rituals of culture. That's kind of the civilized way to do it when there's not a great deal of animosity. Are we in fact enacting their revenge in a civilized way so that they don't have to go out there and do it in a primitive manner? But she held it in and calmed down, as any civilized and respectable queen should do. We are willing to do it in a civilized way, but within a sensible time framework. So it is time to have a dialogue and sort out the problems in civilized ways. We stuffed ourselves silly when the pizza arrived, of course in a civilized manner. Show More Sentences Eventually, I think he will accept a deal, but he's got to play by civilized rules. So it is in our interest to demonstrate to them why it would be to their benefit to play by civilized rules. If you don't like what someone has to say, then engage them in a civilized discussion. I propose we consider the civilized Gandhian option of learning to respect each other and coexist in peace and harmony. In more civilized times even the most implacable enemies were treated with dignity. In this way, so the configurative theory tells us, a courtyard could be civilized without giving it an overtly formal straightjacket. Like all the laws of nations, it rests upon the common consent of civilized communities. Unfortunately, these creeps are hiding behind the First Amendment and doing things that in no civilized society should be tolerated. Self-restraint, rather than draconian laws, was key to the most civilized and crime-free society in Europe. With no women there to keep us civilized and on our best behavior, I suspect that bodily noises and crude jokes will also be involved. This can be thought of as the gentlemanly, or civilized, approach to warfare. Does it not follow that if the evolution of amoeba to man is fact, then the development of primitive man to civilized man must be fact also? The idea that beneath the outer shell of civilized humanity lies this kind of unbridled, primitive passion is terrifying and exciting to him. She is, above all, the Goddess of the City, the protectress of civilized life, of artesian activities, and of agriculture. This is highly thoughtful architecture that despite the provincial nature of its setting makes a point of being decent, modern and civilized. This is when the ugly head of terrorism, spawned from the putrid heap of human rejects, knocks on the doors of civilized people. It is as difficult for the very civilized man to understand its charm as it is to deny its existence. I've always been impressed by the fact that my readers generally disport themselves in a courteous and civilized fashion. But I think the free world, the civilized world, the good people of the world, can strike a serious blow against evildoers. Whether planning party games, or a civilized card evening with friends, this will be an invaluable source of information. Show More Sentences Even when manners are wasted on the recipient, it is important to present the example of civilized behavior. In any civilized court, the decision lies with the accuser to prove that a person did what they say they did. And these jokers would have the nerve to say they are more civilized than me. Walker's script portrays a couple of go-nowhere white trash who struggle desperately to climb out of the muck and back into civilized society. Having been kept as a house slave by his planter-master, who had taught him to read and write, he had acquired refined, civilized tastes. The young men, fiery savage children of a gentle civilized mother, slew with neither ruth nor pity. The whole idea of anyone acting as judge, jury and executioner is totally repugnant to a civilized society. In any civilized and law-abiding society the defeat of the terrorist is a public interest of the first importance. Literary references to wine drinking are legion, presumably because it encouraged conversation, civilized, bawdy, or sometimes nonsensical. The Duke of Windsor was another undisputed arbiter elegantiarum for the whole civilized world. This vile display shows a contempt for all the rules of warfare, and all the bounds of civilized behavior. If you don't make good money you are a loser and may be looked down on, no matter how civilized and ethical you are. Most of the time meanness is more dangerous than civilized standards. But, also, such pulse-pounding adventure is a battering ram against the central bulwark of a civilized society. The last six months have been a stark reminder of the brutality that lurks at the boundaries of civilized society. At present the civilized world is trapped somewhat in a timewarp of arguably obsolescent political, ethical, and strategic assumptions and practices. We and the civilized world are in shock at this gross inhumanity, and we extend heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed and wounded. A mark of the civilized person is that he in no way luxuriates in his violence. In any other civilized nation this effort at some kind of summer escape would barely raise an eyebrow. An innocent person condemned by law is perhaps the most horrifying thing a civilized society can acknowledge. Show More Sentences We will not make our society more civilized by detaching one of our central institutions from its civilizing task. One of the men, relatively clean and civilized, approached us. Beyond the Wall, the free folk do not kneel to anyone, unlike their supposedly more civilized neighbors. From now on, they were to be regarded as the irregular troops of a military alliance at war with the United States, and indeed the civilized world as a whole. John Frost's 1793 trial opens a discussion of spatial shifts from the civilized sociability of the coffee house to the courts, prison, and the pillory. He beseeched the help of all civilized countries in combating trafficking of humans for prostitution and offered 15 billion dollars to fight AIDS in Africa. It would sanction excessive conduct which allowed headstrong, violent people to take the law into their own hands in a way which no civilized society could permit. It was a very civilized process and that seemed to anger a lot of people. These tyrants were too small-time to rouse Americans to action and yet simultaneously too annoying or brutal to be ignored by a civilized superpower. At first, the term Buffalo Commons was a lightning rod, attracting doomsday prophets and defenders of civilized life in small towns and rural areas across the Great Plains. It's not all that civilized, though, as I learn when I almost lose my wild-boar salami to a humpy black weasel through momentary inattention to my daypack. The six civilized core areas of the ecumene interacted but were not moving toward uniformity as was characteristic of the first phase of world history. If you go by what the experts and data crunchers say, the worker bees of the world are dooming the civilized, unhurried meal to an untimely death. For I had always held that revenge was a motive alien to modem, civilized man, a primitive drive, a blood-lust that human nature had sloughed off. He applauded their sense of humour, their sagacity, their enjoyment of beautiful things, and their immensely civilized love of culture and learning. However, we are all of us imperfect beings, and punishing the individual for life-style imperfections seems to me to be unsupportable in a civilized society. My previous experiences left me unprepared for the civilized notion that for an hour a day we would be free of all educational injunctions save the one to be quiet. The avuncular Sam, understanding how much they like each other as well as the ambitions that are driving them both, urges them to be civilized and be nice to each other. They bullied the law, and they bullied the power structure and the structure of civilized society. The threat of intimidation and violence to those exercising this right is the antithesis of how a law-abiding and civilized nation conducts itself. Show More Sentences And if the end result isn't exactly my idea of a civilized political discourse it clearly is a powerful and successful example of fighting fire with fire. She extols conventions that make civilized society possible. In a civilized world, I would have received a commendation of some sort. After 1800, some of the Cherokee and the other four civilized tribes of the Southeast started buying and using black slaves as labor. In Ancient warfare, most civilized nations relied heavily on irregulars to augment their small regular army. I call him a savage, and I call a savage a something highly desirable to be civilized off the face of the earth. Dutch exploratory voyages revealed largely unknown landmasses to the civilized world and put their names on the world map. This is a greater extent than the whole civilized part of Asia, from Turkey to the eastern extremity of China. The common law evolves because civilized society evolves, and judges share the common preconceptions of the governing class. He sees in Conan a red-handed, rough-footed barbarian who came out of the north to plunder a civilized land. A Romanophile, the Greek historian Polybius intended his History to explain Rome's dominance over the civilized world. There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. The civilized world will likely then prevail, but belatedly and at a higher cost than need have been. You should still get a good tip without the autograt if your customers are civilized people, and your work is good! The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Refined cuisine could be moralized as a sign of either civilized progress or decadent decline. Modern archeology strongly suggests that the countries of Gaul were quite civilized and very wealthy. We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized nations. Show More Sentences If women had a voice in the making of the laws, how long would the dram-shop and low groggery send out their liquid poison to pollute civilized lands? The dominion of Theodoric was not a barbarian but a civilized power. However, the center of the civilized Roman world had shifted definitively to Constantinople, or New Rome, the capital of the Greek speaking Empire. For some, prior schooling is equated with status, cultured, civilized, high class, and they may experience shame among peers in their new ESL classes. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. It was inhabited by a sapient humanoid race, and some of them were civilized enough to put it in Class V, and Colonial Office doctrine on Class V planets was rigid. A merica, as mistress of the ocean, must overstride the civilized world. China long ago established a hierarchy of barbarianism, with Blacks occupying the lowest rung, being furthest removed from the civilized as embodied by the Chinese Han people. However, when humans function in civilized tandem, it has been noted that uninhibited acting on extreme emotion can lead to social disorder and crime. He said that the Gauls, although warlike, could be civilized, but the Germanic tribesmen were far more savage and were a threat to Roman Gaul and so had to be conquered. As a Stoic, he did not, however, make a fundamental distinction between the civilized Romans as masters of the world and the less civilized peoples. Examples from Classical Literature Stanley began to think his civilized wonders were too tame to pit against those of the African king. They were houseless and homeless adventurers, with no ties to bind them to the cares, toils, and restraints of civilized life. The philatelist is found in every civilized country, and the collection of postage stamps, used and unused, grows apace. The experience of civilized nations has hitherto been adverse to Socialism. The ships were last seen by civilized men in Baffin Bay, whence they passed from the knowledge of the world. I took with me my two servants, Dubi, a civilized Dayak, and my Chinese cook. It is worthy of remark that all paradigmatic inflection in a civilized tongue is a relic of its barbaric condition. It is a test of the civilized to see and hear, and add no yapping to the spectacle. All civilized mankind stood mourning around the coffin of the dead president. Not a man in the outfit Kars had organized but was a wage slave, down to the least civilized Indian who labored under a pack. He had been along all the pavements of Grub Street, perhaps the most exciting place of breadwinning known to the civilized man. The natives of Kodiak are more highly civilized than in other parts of Alaska. This prince was sent to the island of Xaracuero, to be educated by the Tarasco priests in the arts of civilized life. They had some nuclear power, introduced a century or so ago by traders from Marduk, one of the really civilized planets. The Nahuas on the north and the mayas on the south included the civilized nations. Darkover is a civilized planet with a fairly high standard of living, but it is not a mechanized or a technological culture. Prosper admitted, that, unbranded as to skin, he was scarcely fit to put his dirty civilized soul under her clean and savage foot. All in turn partook of the smoke of the weed which both the civilized and uncivilized man have prized so highly. These principles, it is believed, are uncontroverted by any civilized nation in modern times. The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. Show More Sentences What we need, to ward off mobocracy and safeguard a civilized form of government, is more of this sniffing. In fact, it was the civilized man in him that had originally sought the introduction to her, with a bribe to the untameable. It continues to be the resort of persons of every civilized, and almost every semi civilized, nation on the face of the earth. In complexity, our large civilized nations as much exceed primitive savage tribes, as a vertebrate animal does a zoophyte. The fall of the campanile in 1904 was regarded as a calamity by all the civilized world. No people, civilized or savage, of the Eastern Hemisphere, are known to have thus embarrassed the movements of the spindle. The embarcation was a wondrous spectacle, such as civilized eyes have rarely beheld, and can never witness again. The main feature of the incident is the conversion of Enkidu to civilized life. In complexity, our large civilized nations as much exceed primitive savage tribes, as a mammal does a zoophyte. The ANTA is the tapir, once very plentiful in South America, but now rare in the well civilized districts. Indeed there is nothing in civilized countries to approach it in its combination of beauty and adaption for the purposes intended. He liked the black coffee, and felt civilized when he resorted to the finger bowl. For the land will never again stand at the crossroads, the four-corners of the civilized world. Do you guess we were frazzled up to the limit and not braced to hold back or anything, the way civilized people do? The contrast between Enkidu and Gish is that between the primitive savage and the civilized being. The Japanese are a civilizable and civilized race, and must be treated as such. The civilized tenure of property in severalty must be substituted for communal property. Thibauts songs blended the courteous poetry of the troubadour tradition with the attic salt of his own most civilized Champagne. The freest people on the civilized earth are the only people on the civilized earth who dare not face that question. Throughout civilized Europe a sort of carnival of empiricism prevailed. Show More Sentences At a remote time the art of Babylonia was that of a civilized people. In every civilized nation the lawyers must be the law-givers. Abandon her not until you leave her in the habitations of civilized men. Then shall I break upon the civilized world as a revelation. It strikes you as the crudity of a race not quite civilized. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. But this does not relegate these civilized nations to savagism. There is no room in the civilized world now for a dysgenic religion. In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians. Its basis is the tyranny of brain force, which, among civilized men, is allowed to do what muscular force does among schoolboys and savages. He was just enough civilized to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manner. For Holland is a small country, well watched, highly civilized. It is not a civilized scene to see a smoking car in a country that gives utmost care to the environmental hygiene. Thick skin is, indeed, our moral clothes, and without it we are not fit to be seen about in civilized society. The South Sea Islanders, of the two races inhabiting the Pacific, are comparatively civilized. For such is the stultifying effect of a civilized environment. Then all the tensions and inhibitions of civilized society disappear. This is a jural postulate of civilized society as we know it. It sent its products to every country in the civilized world, and it furnished the food for no less than thirty million people! From that day these outrages have never ceased, until now they have reached a pitch which makes us the opprobrium of the civilized world. Show More Sentences It is an untrammeled Sound, uncultivated, only a little civilized. No part of the civilized world seemed to have been unvisited by this pair. The sight of the civilized girl and the dapper, khaki clad Englishman had aroused in Korak memories long dormant. Schlesinger was urbane and civilized, and his owlish looks complemented the magazine appeal of the president and his dashing brothers. But what further depreciates the whale as a civilized dish, is his exceeding richness. Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of? Their very appearance and equipment exhibited a piebald mixture, half civilized and half savage. Is it impossible to combine the hardiness of these savages with the intellectualness of the civilized man? She longed to be in the polis again, among civilized people. Thus, even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development. This holds true of many of the islands of Polynesia, although the reverse of what is the case in most civilized countries. They foresaw that civilized and savage life could not abide side by side. Years have elapsed, since I had an opportunity of ocularly perusing the lineaments, now familiar to the imaginations of a considerable portion of the civilized world. That Britain needs a sound immigration policy is not in doubt but it surely requires one that is seen to be civilized, not one that smacks of a galumphing police state. The House of the Seven Gables, antique as it now looks, was not the first habitation erected by civilized man on precisely the same spot of ground. What irks me the most is that decent, hard-working folks are forced to finance art forms that go far beyond what most civilized people would call obscene. What king, savage or civilized, could condone such impudence? The Bell Telephone now took its place with the Telegraph, the Railroad, the Steamboat, the Harvester, and the other necessities of a civilized country. Such was the wild and heterogeneous assemblage, amounting to several hundred men, civilized and savage, distributed in tents and lodges in the several camps. Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power. Show More Sentences We are sufficiently civilized to carry our own combs and toothbrushes, but this thing of having to ring for soap every time we wash is new to us and not pleasant at all. By the Indian's side, and evidently sustaining a companionship with him, stood a white man, clad in a strange disarray of civilized and savage costume. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of civilized? Words that rhyme with civilized What is the adverb for civilized? What is the adjective for civilized? What is the noun for civilized? Translations for civilized Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words civilize civilizations civilizational Civilization civilization civility civilizer civilizing civil law civil liability civil liberties civil liberty 9-letter Words Starting With c ci civ civi civil civili civiliz civilize