Sentence examples for civilisation which from inspiring English sources

That is what Kafka, Auden and Lawrence were asking: how civilised was a civilisation which repressed man's natural instincts while destroying itself?

Benjamin wrote: "There is no document of civilisation which is not at the same time a document of barbarism".

They belong to the Nuragic civilisation, which flourished on Sardinia for two millennia until the second century AD.

What Lord Sacks has said should be heard: every civilisation which has not replaced itself, in terms of numbers, perishes.

Walter Benjamin's dictum seems to fit so much of Unsworth's work: "There is no document of civilisation which is not at the same time a document of barbarism".

India is also a great country, with a proud civilisation, which is modernising its state-strung economy and looking for ways to boost trade.

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side.

Nineteenth-century explorers discovered several civilisations which had never encountered kissing and instead had their own idiosyncratic romantic practices.

Meanwhile, the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations, which opens next month, promises to be nothing short of spectacular.

The risk of working in silo is to perpetuate the 'clash of civilisations' which hampers co-operation and the tendency to follow founders (or corporate) interests.

There's no polemic about the clash of civilisations – which isn't to say that people's ideas about how Islam relates to the west don't get foisted on her work.