Sentence examples for high civilization from inspiring English sources

Other dichotomies also recur: primitivism (or wildlife) versus high civilization, civilian life juxtaposed with soldiers going to war and dying.

Billie Holiday's plaintive tones show up on the soundtrack, a touch of melancholy high civilization amid the mayhem.

Excellent in their own right, some of these wares reflect styles, media, and techniques from both the Andean and the Mexican centres of high civilization.

As one of the people Isaacs interviewed remarked, "One feels that a people who have evolved such food must have high qualities and a high civilization".

Third, between 1000 and 1500 ce the area was intermediate between the major centres of high civilization in Mexico and Peru.

But for a few hours, you can happily lose yourself in an utterly artificial world that also marks a moment of high civilization.

Late-born amid high civilizations, the Israelite religion had from the start features characteristic of all the known religions of the area.

Tombs have yielded a wealth of evidence of such practices in the cultures of the Stone and Bronze ages as well as in the high civilizations of ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Mexico.

The Andean region was once rich and produced high civilizations because, over millennia, its people developed an agriculture, technologies, and social systems uniquely adapted to the very specialized if not unique ecologic conditions in which they lived.

Soon there may be no more higher civilization to rescue.

William Styron "In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight.