Sentence examples for civilised art from inspiring English sources

This elegant and civilised art preserve has a wicked old visitor.

We've lost the civilised art of robust, well-informed debate, and we need to get it back.

The structure of the story follows Conrad's Heart of Darkness with some fidelity, as the Marlow figure travels the river from the centre of empire to its outposts, in quest of that highly ambivalent and suspect colonial trader, Mr Kurtz - a dark influence on Mason's more civilised, art-loving Carroll.

People who liked the euro were civilised, supported the arts, went to Tuscany or the Dordogne for their holidays.

We have a civilised, articulate and reasonable Arts Minister in Chris Smith.

He has attractive, lively-looking candidates for some posts—a computer entrepreneur, Jost Stollmann, to take charge of the economy, Walter Riester, a forward-looking trade unionist, to deal with labour, Michael Naumann, a civilised publisher, for the arts.

Their desire for me was that I should become interested in art, music, all the civilised things of life.

Cy Twombly saw the primitive roots of the civilised, and sowed the seeds for art's rebirth as a thing of blood and love.

A civilised society should support schools, hospitals, and art galleries.

As we have repeated we should learn the art of coexistence in a civilised manner with our differences".

In our time, the argument that we come out of the fires of art more finely tempered, more civilised, the better humanly for where we've been, gets short shrift.