Sentence examples for civilized expectations from inspiring English sources

And both of them put a premium on achieving mastery over elemental forces that often defied the most cherished civilized expectations.

What does it say about the civilized world that our expectations for greatness are diminished when people are unattractive and/or old?

"We need to balance the standards and expectations of a civilized society, which is what we represent, and the understandable demands by people to have the last of these doubts quelled".

The gremlins, riding the wings of British combat planes & lousing up the mechanisms at critical moments, have their own peculiar dignity as the Gothic creatures of a civilized imagination that is cheerfully coping with the expectation of sudden death.

"Civilized, barbaric.

Very civilized.

So civilized.

— It's very civilized.

It just seems civilized.

So much more civilized.

Civilized it's not.