Sentence examples for decline of civility from inspiring English sources

All politicians lament the decline of civility and the rise in antisocial behaviour in the streets.

CELLPHONES have been blamed for all sorts of transgressions: the disappearance of phone booths, the decline of civility in restaurants and movie theaters, even for being potential carcinogens.

An article laments the decline of civility in the southern United States, a region where manners were once considered an important cultural marker.

As editorialists gravely lament the decline of civility on both sides, the Democrats seem to have lost whatever moral advantage accrued to being the party of moderation.

The preface to Mrs. Santorum's 2003 book of moral parables teaching children good manners was written by Joe Paterno, who warns against "a decline of civility and a coarsening of society".

During "Class," Kander and Ebb's comic lament for the decline of civility in modern life, she metamorphoses into a rude vulgarian, chewing candy with her mouth open and spitting it out.

Cheaper and more readily available alcohol, changing drinking patterns, a steep increase in drinking among young women and a decline in old standards of civility have turned what was once a manageable part of life into a problem that costs society, according to government estimates, $35 billion a year.

The "hard" evidence of a decline in civility?In 2011, some 76 percent of people surveyed by Rasmussen Reports said Americans are becoming more rude and less civil.This shows nothing about civility; what it shows is that people surveyed think that others are becoming less civil.

In "A Last Bastion of Civility, the South, Sees Manners Decline," Kim Severson writes: Since the Civil War, any decline in Southern civility has largely been blamed on those damn Yankees.

The rancour over impeachment appears to represent a fall from some former Eden of civility.

Longtimers said that changes in the film and television industries over the last decade have accelerated the level of hostility and the decline in civility.