"civility about" can be a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate the general topic or subject matter of a conversation or situation. Example: The meeting focused on issues of civility about social media usage.
He talked with quiet civility about fighting corruption.
The classes at Kips Bay hardly avoid discussions of birth control, but they are steeped in larger conversations about civility, about learning how to treat people respectfully, about upending gender-role assumptions that 15-year-olds might have.
The great rule of successful comment sites is that people can disagree gracefully, and we ask you to exhibit tolerance, respect and civility about others' beliefs even as you differ.
Away from the intensive tourist touting of rum and cigars, the endless but rather limited repertoire of Son and Salsa, and the cheesy Hemingway trail there is a quiet civility about Havana that would seem to hold many lessons for modern urban living.
Unfortunately, our politicians' failures to communicate with honesty and civility about dying have completely distorted the proposal to include voluntary end-of-life counseling within health care reform or as an additional Medicare service.
This race, despite its posturing about civility, is really about revenge.
"This is not another book about civility...it's about a pervasive, warlike atmosphere that makes us approach public dialogue as if it were a fight.
Clearly, anyone who cared as deeply about civility as Washington did couldn't have relished living the politician's life of flesh-pressing, baby-kissing and unbridled bloviation.
But for the institution, invoking civility is about isolating and controlling those assholes.
He shook his head, "When did we lose our manners, our civility?" Thoughts about manners and rules have been around for more than 4500 years, first written on papyrus giving guidelines on conduct.
We are right to be appalled by some of its worst manifestations, but we also have to be smart enough to realise that campaigns against trolling, or bans on anonymity, are less to do with concerns about civility than they are about exercising control over public debate.
