Sentence examples for fall of civilizations from inspiring English sources

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.

Taking as a starting point the region's unique geography, which seems to have been "deliberately designed" as a "cradle of cultures," he focusses on the rise and fall of civilizations through battles and their heroes, paying particular attention to the Christian and Muslim struggle for dominance.

"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".

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.

This was a shift in emphasis, focusing more on perceived court injustice and not at all on the supposed fall of civilization that gay marriage will bring.

("My son is sad! Find Gertrude!") The crime was taken as proof of the decline and fall of civilization, and we found ourselves assuming the role of the comforter far more than the comforted.