Sentence examples for decline of civilization from inspiring English sources

In 1875 Anthony Trollope spotted the decline of civilization -- or at least the civilized world of the English upper classes -- and embodied it in the sinister figure of Augustus Melmotte, a financier and the antihero of "The Way We Live Now," one of Trollope's great novels.

If it did when it does? it would be another sign of the decline of civilization.

Mushnick, a self-appointed griper about the debasement of sports and the decline of civilization, prefers to find fault.

It's a sign of the decline of civilization — not the making of them, the bringing them back here fully insured".

Was TV a new frontier for dramatic and civic life, or a sign of the decline of civilization?

If we cannot control the decline of civilization in global politics or at the multiplex, at least we can oppress the dirt in the foyer.

As Cutler, a decline-of-civilization man, made conversation with the driver, Hayes, fulminating intermittenly about the "totally out-of-control Justice Department," made and answered a never-ending series of phone calls.

Without going into decline-of-civilization nostalgia — draw your own conclusions from the fact that the role now taken by Ms. Aniston belonged back then to Ingrid Bergman — I have to say that the old title was much better.

In any case, "Evolution" is Mr. Sherman's variation on both these themes, and though the play has its moments of enlightening satire, generally his attempt to spin a darkly comic decline-of-civilization parable out of this material alternately feels pretentious and tired.

You don't leave Apocalypto thinking of the decline of civilizations or the power of myth or anything much except, wow, that is one sick son of a bitch.

Considering a coincidence between environmental and cultural changes, we state that success and decline of civilizations were dominated by hydrological oscillations, triggering fertility as well as a critical loss of natural resources.