Sentence examples for civilised use from inspiring English sources
The Borrowers, those logical little people who sequester things like thimbles, hat-pins, and patchboxes, and make such civilised use of them, were invented for the practical purpose of entertaining [her] four children while they were exiled with her to New York during the war.
Above all it recognises that civilised societies use certainty in the allocation of land, through an agreed plan, as the best way to resolve conflicts over use.
Shockingly, those civilised pavements – used to shoppers and strollers in this eminently walkable city – were now splashed with bright red, fresh blood.
Perhaps that explains why there has been so little uproar over supposedly civilised societies using terminology like "marauding" and "swarms", and making policy decisions that result in hundreds of people drowning in the Mediterranean or languishing in detention centres.
Eating at a festival is a whole lot more civilised than it used to be.
The same is true of chemicals, and civilised countries do not use chemical weapons either.But uncivilised countries do, and so do terrorists.
My hope is that on Sunday Salon we'll create a uniquely fresh, nuanced, more civilised atmosphere, where I use the warmth of my personality – and relative youth, of course, my looks are for others to judge!
No civilised society can function like that".
Fury also used less than civilised language when addressing Chisora and in reference to the IBF, WBA and WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko, prompting the BBBofC to take action.
In 1945, Waugh said that Pablo Picasso's artistic standing was the result of a "mesmeric trick"; that his paintings "could not be intelligently discussed in the terms used of the civilised masters".
But here's the crazy part: this time, the politicians might be on to something.In most civilised countries, people board trains by using all of the doors of the train.
