Sentence examples for decline of civilisation from inspiring English sources

From his vantage point across the Atlantic, Prof Ferguson has recently pronounced that "social and cultural decay, the decline of civilisation, is pretty advanced in western Europe".

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Whether or not this says something about the decline of civilisation, it's certainly a tribute to the modern literary phenomenon that is Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

As Overy acknowledges, those most exercised by the decline of civilisation - "the well-to do intelligentsia and the political elite" - based their version of it on their own assumptions and prejudices.

He proclaimed the decline of civilisation, while enjoying the best it had to offer in his big house on the Connecticut shore of Long Island; in Switzerland, which he called the antechamber to heaven; and in the salons and restaurants of Manhattan.

A skirmish in Clacton, at Easter, was hysterically written up by newspapers as the decline and fall of civilisation.

What those assets were was obscure to many: for some, she seemed an icon of celebrity culture's vapidity, a personification of the decline of western civilisation.

Imagine discovering that your sulky darling encapsulates the decline of western civilisation.

Americans and Europeans grow fatter by the day, imposing negative externalities and perhaps heralding the decline of Western civilisation.

They also provided some of the funniest moments in The Decline of Western Civilisation Part II: the Metal Years.

Scott Dunlop is remarkably relaxed for a man who has been accused of hastening the decline of western civilisation.