There more than elsewhere civilized traditions of life and those of steppe tribesmen blended through the centuries of recorded history down to the present.
Alice, a cook with a bureaucrat's soul who opposes every change Mr. Oliver hopes to make, curls her lip and says, "Are you telling me, honestly, your kindergarteners have knives and forks?" Yes, Mr. Oliver declares, as centuries of civilized Anglo-European threatenn torexpireto expine in the lunchrooms of West Virginia.
As 19th-century Native Americans were forced to adapt to a world dynamically altered by war, racial brutality, disease and displacement, photographic depictions of them habitually trafficked in stereotypes built on an implicit comparison between the new, "civilized" Indian and the tradition-bound "savage".
Great literature and great criticism possess in common a sort of penumbra of wide but unsystematic learning, a devotion to civilized values, an awareness of tradition, and a willingness to rely occasionally on the irrational and intuitive.
Among civilized people, it is part of Christmas tradition to deplore the coarse commercialization of Christmas tradition.
Alertness to those traditions is a richly civilized element of certain Californian sensibilities.
After learning that there were Europeans who continued ancient pagan rites of celebrating the winter solstice and the beginning of spring, he set out to examine what traditions faded as people became more civilized.
Together, let's use love to rewake our dormant conscience, break down those barriers between our hearts, and with our love establish a tradition for the Chinese people of noble and civilized politics.
"Cold Creek Manor," which opens nationwide today, belongs to the "Cape Fear" tradition of thrillers in which the mettle of a civilized family man is tested in a life-or-death struggle with crude macho evil.
The Manchurian conquerors were markedly different from the more civilized Ming Dynasty, but once in power they quickly adapted to Chinese tradition.
