Sentence examples for civilised from inspiring English sources

The more the western world was able to invent and innovate in the past 300 years, the more "civilised" it became.

Breakfast is taken at a civilised hour at the edge of the pool and the rest of the day is given up to the garden or the private sandy beach, which is reached through a tiny door in the walls.

It's an excellent wee theatre, Milton Keynes, and not just because the authorities there are civilised enough to allow you to imbibe; a 1400-seater auditorium with a pit big enough to take a large orchestra (Welsh National Opera have toured Wozzeck here in the past), but with a Glyndebourne-esque sense of intimacy and immediacy.

One of the central paradoxes of life in France is that for all the French preen themselves as the most civilised nation on Earth, they are also quickly prone to collapse into self-lacerating fits of low self-esteem.

Disingenuous!" He was then president of the party during the Ashdown years, and his unstinting efforts on the rubber chicken circuit gave a peculiarly Kennedy-esque spirit to the party that was especially his – gentle, civilised, humorous; nobody's poodles, but not Rottweilers either, as he put it.

The school represented for me the best of a democratic and civilised education.

Pinter and Miller were together in Ankara discussing the freedom that writers ought to enjoy in civilised communities.

The civilised world is appalled by the cruel, degrading and cold-blooded execution of Troy Davis (Report, 22 September).

Saville voted Labour in 1945, but was essentially a one-nation Conservative and his politics were more civilised than Blyton's.

All is seductively civilised and the hotel is laid out in such a way that you can always find somewhere private to sit overlooking the sea, under white parasols shading comfortable wooden loungers.

If most people behind bars were serious criminals, such conditions could be partly understood as a pre-civilised desire for vengeance against wrongdoers in a region plagued with violent crime.