Sentence examples for civilisation without from inspiring English sources

We can accept western civilisation without identifying with the west.

Ryckmans believed that the Cultural Revolution had destroyed the beauty of Chinese culture and civilisation without destroying what needed to be banished, the tyranny of arbitrary rule.

The couple in your article had much sourness about parenthood, child-rearing and us oldie stay at homes alongside their triumphalist lifestyle of yomping through the margins of civilisation without a care in the world.

Why should people of the 21st century be interested in an art historian who died in 1983 and was widely attacked in his own lifetime for celebrating old genres and out-of-date attitudes; for praising the nude as if feminism never happened, and doting on the lofty heights of western civilisation without appearing to acknowledge that any other civilisations exist?

"In civilisations without boats," Michel Foucault observed, '"dreams dry up".

But also in the ambiguous utopias, like the hyper-crowded cities or the rarefied civilisations without contacts, the conflict – though perceived only as a nuisance – is not absent.

He refused the second because, he said, science would be overturned by "a total destruction of civilisation… without historical precedent".

Just as no religion is an island, so Smart also argued that no culture and civilisation is without its religion or world view.

We may be mocked for our naive idealism, but at least it will not be possible to say that an expiring civilisation perished without a creative protest,' wrote art historian Herbert Read.

To explain how these ancient civilisations "disappeared without a trace", Anderson came up with the idea that the Predators, if overwhelmed by the Aliens, would use their self-destruct weapons to kill everything in the area.

What we do depends on our social bonds; without civilisation we would all be uncivilised.