"glorious civilization" is a valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a society or culture that is considered impressive, advanced, or prosperous. Example: The ancient Egyptians were known for their glorious civilization, with stunning architecture, complex social structures, and advancements in mathematics and engineering.
But Islamic fundamentalism is based on a glorious civilization and a great faith.
And Heckenberger has helped to upend the view of the Amazon as a counterfeit paradise that could never sustain what Fawcett had envisioned: a prosperous, glorious civilization.
Alas, the discovery of this glorious civilization is due to another tragedy — the vanishing of the once great jungles its people inhabited.
Alas, the discovery of this glorious civilization is due to another tragedy the vanishing of the once great jungles its people inhabited.
In this case an elderly wise man -- the last of his kind it turns out -- mourns the loss of the glorious civilization he knew in his youth.
For Anthony Pagden, a professor of political science and history at the University of California, Los Angeles, the shah and Napoleon are archetypes, respectively, of East and West, each seeing himself as heir to a glorious civilization.
Two rich, glorious civilizations were humiliated and brought to their knees, their lands lost and borders redrawn, their people forced to endure barbarous cruelty and suffering.
The most important lesson I learned through Latin that Mr. Mount did not mention: that glorious civilizations fall only when they fail to uphold the ethical values upon which they were built.
Kessler went further, saying, of Bellamy, "He and his ilk have targeted all the Founding Fathers, philosophers, artists, and other leaders of our glorious Western civilization".
"Voyage to Italy" takes place in a series of simultaneous aftermaths — of World War II, of a glorious ancient civilization, of Uncle Homer's wild life, of whatever passion once united Katherine and Alex.
My editor suggested that it was a little much, and it certainly was in 2008, at a time when even the first iterations of the iPhone seemed like they were beamed back to our world from some glorious future civilization in Cupertino.
