Sentence examples for fall of civilization from inspiring English sources
No one ever charged the maker of Pong with hastening the fall of civilization as we know it.
This semester I return to full time teaching at Cornell and am reviving my course on The Rise and Fall of "Civilization'".
As part of Adam Smith's course "The Rise and Fall of 'Civilization'", students are examining the historical and archaeological assumptions embedded within the algorithms of one of the most popular video games of the last decade: "Civilization".
Keeping each other company, they chronicle the rise and fall of civilization through music of eclectic, not to say eccentric, variety: Rodgers & Hammerstein and Stephen Sondheim, but also Queen and R.E.M. (Here's hoping we get to hear Mr. Mac take on a little Sondheim, and Mr. Patinkin tackle Queen).
He remained in the news as he paired up with musical-theatre veteran Mandy Patinkin for The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville, a song-and-dance evocation of the rise and fall of civilization that opened in December at New York City's Classic Stage Company.
A class in the rise and fall of civilization introduced her to the field of anthropology.
Although we think of the joke as a cultural constant, it is a form of humor that comes and goes with the rise and fall of civilizations.
Westerfeld's speculations about the rise and fall of civilizations are appealingly quirky -- where would early agricultural empires have been without cats?
It is an inventive take on human hubris and the fall of civilizations, never mind that the ideas involved are hackneyed.
The games were built accordingly, around long narratives (quests, wars, the rise and fall of civilizations) that could be explored comfortably while sitting cross-legged on a living-room carpet.
"That dissonance between the beauty and the sense of waste and destruction and decay leads you to really consider not just the situation of Detroit but to put them in a larger context of the rise and fall of civilizations, the relationship between human endeavors to build and nature's ability to overwhelm and overcome".
