Sentence examples for fate of civilization from inspiring English sources

Further in the category of Why Bother, Especially Since We Will All Die Soon is "The Sixth Extinction," by the New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert, which reveals that the fate of civilization is a thin band of dust.

At critical junctures in the 20th century, too, after the First and Second World Wars and in the 1960s, when the fate of civilization seemed imperiled or doomed, critics returned to the Enlightenment as a sort of palimpsest on which to read and write our fate.

Post-apocalyptic literature in general had often tried to imagine the fate of civilization and its artifacts after the end of humanity.

IGN however noted that "no doubt franchise fans will eat it up, but newcomers may be wondering what all the fuss is about while going through the early missions that lack the kind of urgency you would hope when the fate of civilization is in peril".

McKellen times the advice so beautifully that the audience laughs in relief, as if we helplessly hankered for comedy, however mild, when the fate of civilizations is up for grabs.

He advanced the theory that the fate of civilizations is determined by racial composition, that white and in particular Aryan societies flourish as long as they remain free of black and yellow strains, and that the more a civilization's racial character is diluted through miscegenation, the more likely it is to lose its vitality and creativity and sink into corruption and immorality.

Hanson lays himself open to at least two charges (beyond the sin of studying male leaders deciding how and when young men will kill each other and thus decide the fate of civilizations): first, attempting to draw parallels between different societies across 2,500 years is bound to raise eyebrows.

His most famous work of the postrevolutionary years, which came to be widely translated, is Perepiska iz dvukh uglov (1921; Correspondence Across a Room), a dialogue with the philosopher Mikhail Gershenzon about the fate of culture and civilization after war and revolution.

As is often the case in middle-grade fantasy series, the stakes couldn't be higher: here the fate of Western civilization hangs in the balance.

As Neil de Grasse Tyson has said, "The space program's unprecedented images of Earth compelled us all to think deeply about our dependence on nature and the fate of our civilization".

If so, it may be because present anxieties about the state and the fate of Western civilization echo past ones, when artists were energized around big issues, such as clashes of modernizing and medievalist mind-sets, which may never have been completely settled.