Sentence examples for civilised convention from inspiring English sources
Halfway through my breakfast, a trio of elderly Bavarian gents trooped in and joined me at my table (sharing tables is common in Munich, another thoroughly civilised convention) and the eldest-looking, who was sporting one of those dainty felt hats, pointed at my breakfast and made what appeared to be an approving remark.
Freud pointed out that these libidinal drives can conflict with the conventions of civilised behaviour.
But biotechnology, again like chemistry, may also yield new weapons.Most civilised countries have signed conventions that prohibit them from deploying indeed, from manufacturing biological weapons.
Treaties like the Geneva Convention stand as honourable guideposts so that civilised nations don't go berserk the way, say, England did in 1842 when troops under the command of Major-General George Pollock conducted a free-range rape, pillage and massacre of Afghans to avenge the Afghan massacre of British troops and their families the year before.
Safety and comfort are concepts civilised societies have invented to protect themselves from self-knowledge, not physical harm, and perhaps even our most basic conventions are no more than a rickety rope-bridge, or clanking ski-lift.
That sounds civilised, too.
It sounds rather civilised.
