Sentence examples for civilisation lies from inspiring English sources
Caravaggio's anarchistic tribute to the destructive power of desire – the stuff of civilisation lies defeated at Cupid's feet – is eternally worrying.
On arrival, a welcome sign and pillar of arrows pointing to distant cities remind you how far civilisation lies: "Beijing: 17,501km".
In the other, the whole of human civilisation lies in ruin.
It looks forward to ever-changing contexts of language use that demand new words and new ways of saying things, and it looks backwards to a classical past in which the glories of Indian civilisation lie recorded.
Here, the dramas are ready-mades provided by the Shoah, interspersed with reflections on violence, culture and civilisation: Buchenwald lies in the woods near lovely baroque Weimar, the city of Goethe and Schiller.
Peel back a thin layer of civilisation, and what lies beneath is pretty frightening.
To inspect the fleet list that shows where each ship was built and by which builder is to remind oneself of an industrial civilisation that now lies beneath the sea like Atlantis.
He planted a vineyard, not the most useful of things with which to restart civilisation, and then lay sottish and naked in his tent.
He spent his 20s trying to avoid Adolf Hitler and drifting among a number of jobs, including banking, consultancy, academic law and journalism (his journalistic career included a spell as the acting editor of a women's page).Along the way, he became increasingly convinced that the best hope for saving civilisation from barbarism lay in the humdrum science of management.
Both have valid arguments from different perspectives, but instead of unproductive conflict there should be a joint move toward elevation of TV's output without abandoning the realiza tion that tastes and expectations will always vary, that the "Beverly Hillbil lies" and "Civilisation" may each have a place.
He doesn't reject what Marlow calls "the haggard utilitarian lies of our civilisation" in favor of nothing; he rejects them in favor of "something," "some saving truth," "some exorcism against the ghost of doubt" — an intimation of a deeper order, one not easily reduced to words.
