A montage of streetside marquees of industrial vulgarity and the developer's repellent plastic simulacra of life invoke the civilization of artifice that the young lovers reject.
Lal notes that "diasporic Hindus can routinely invoke Indian civilization with a self-assurance that, [to] an Indian in India, would at once provoke mockery and consternation" (111).
Through April 20 Contemporary sculpture may be taking an ancient turn, as artists like Huma Bhabha, Thomas Houseago and now Justin Matherly invoke the art of past civilizations with modern-day materials.
Even the most radical Sunni theorists of jihad invoke a passage from the Koran according to which civilization itself — "the crops and the cattle" — must not and cannot be destroyed completely.
As prisons go, I found that Perryville is very meticulously designed and guarded to invoke the feeling that one is cut off completely from civilization.
No matter by which door you enter or leave Saepinum, your final sign of civilization is inevitably a monument, which never fails to invoke the man or family in power.
In fact, the collective genius of Arab/Islamic civilization is invoked by reference and allusion in Emil Habiby's single novel, "The Pessoptimist," more than it is in all of Mahfouz's novels combined.
For Americans to renew their virility, Roosevelt suggested, they must take up the challenge of empire and bring civilization "to the red wastes where the barbarian peoples of the world hold sway". Later administrations, says Mr. Slotkin, would invoke the frontier myth to justify the use of counterinsurgency measures in the cold war and to rationalize America's growing involvement in Vietnam.
Cannadine rarely puts his emotions on display, but on this question he does: "Future world leaders who invoke 'civilization,' " he writes, "ought to be more circumspect about doing so than many who have recently and irresponsibly been bandying it around to such baleful effect".
Mature leaders invoke confidence.
