Sentence examples for higher civilization from inspiring English sources

Soon there may be no more higher civilization to rescue.

Although the highlands remained heavily populated, these lowland cities became the centres for a higher civilization.

However, they recognized in missionary monks the bearers of a new faith and preservers of a higher civilization.

During that time, the Urartians seem to have eagerly absorbed or imitated the amenities of Assyria's higher civilization.

More's "Utopia" was the first such response, and a radical one, because it imagined the discovery of a higher civilization than the European somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

Higher civilization owes its existence to warfare in that culture is a product of prosperity, and leisure is made possible by conquest.

"Only higher civilizations bake cookies," she says to me, raking fingers through the shrubbery of my hair.

Modern historical analysis is making rapid progress in showing how Rome's early development occurred in a multicultural environment and was particularly influenced by the higher civilizations of the Etruscans to the north and the Greeks to the south.

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

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.