The Modern Greek state could thus prove its legitimacy and worth as a descendant of the Classical Greek civilization and ensure its independence and a place amongst the civilized Western world.
Like the children that Mr. Levitin mentions, I have now been trained to be (mostly) "civilized" at Western classical concerts.
Civilized, profiterole-enjoying classical music lovers and raging Nazis.
When he wasn't playing, he was tyrannizing the musicians, which bothered me because I was used to the much more genteel and civilized way great classical musicians work together.
This is a classical prose, the possession of a civilized man who never expected that his humane irony would have to battle with its moral opposite.
There is a reference in a 15th-century text to certain mixture problems posed by mathematicians to ladies of the court, and many classical lists of the kalas, or civilized arts, include certain kinds of mathematical recreations, sometimes just mathematics in general, or even astronomy.
During the centuries when Western culture was striving to domesticate the German tribes, Constantinople, probably the most civilized city in Christendom, blended classical and Christian elements with a refinement that expressed itself in philosophy, the arts, statecraft, jurisprudence, and scholarship.
With classical music in the background and attentive service, it's all extremely civilized, tasteful, contemporary and comfortable, and it draws an appropriately stylish crowd.
The elegant restoration, the classical music, the enticing smells and, especially, the baked goods — it was all so civilized, so right, in part because the couple wisely left out one ingredient: that sprinkling of judgment often added by people new to the region.
