Sentence examples for civilisation only from inspiring English sources

And, sometimes, signs of a mysterious civilisation only recently known to humanity.

It's strangely anthropological, like examining the artefacts of a bygone civilisation – only, of course, it's our own, a generation removed.

"What Isis is not aware of is the fact that more videos and photos of brutality, killing, beheading, mass execution and destruction of civilisation only creates more hate [towards the group] and more determination to defeat them," he added.

In one episode, Clark builds an ambitious thesis that baroque art in 17th-century Rome was an apogee of civilisation, only to gleefully undermine everything he's just said in a final sequence shot in the grandiose Vatican Museums.

He points out that civilisations only last as long as it takes to plough through the depth of their regional topsoil.

CIVILISATION works only if those who enjoy its benefits are also prepared to pay their share of the costs.

As Mustapha Mond points out in Brave New World, "industrial civilisation is only possible when there's no self-denial.

These narratives about "looting", though they never withstand scrutiny, tap into animating myths about human civilisation being only a few hot meals away from total breakdown.

The player takes up the role of a nameless wanderer amid the desert ruins of a once-great civilisation, able only to float around and produce mournful musical chimes.

The number of people who are so unaware of their privilege or blind to their risk that they think "nothing to hide/nothing to fear" is a viable way to run a civilisation will only decline from here on in.

Following the deprivations of this adventure 'Cherry' ruminated that 'the luxuries of civilisation satisfy only those wants they themselves create'.