Sentence examples for civilized context from inspiring English sources

Comedy is at its merriest, its most festive, when this rhythm of life can be affirmed within the civilized context of human society.

These women — like most of Saramago's — are sensible, warm, and alert, and their presence provides a civilized context, an index of peaceful possibility, for what becomes, between the two identical-looking men, a savage and vengeful war tinged with an atavistic horror of identity theft and a belief in the triumphal content of seducing an enemy's woman.

He practices a civilized, soothing form of criticism, his intellect an alembic that purifies, restores calm and historical context.

From the context, we can deduce that metaphorically, the surgeon was affirming his identity as a healer and member of a civilized society in which political opponents must never become mortal enemies.

"Civilized, barbaric.

Very civilized.

So civilized.

— It's very civilized.

It just seems civilized.

So much more civilized.

Civilized it's not.