Sentence examples for layers of civilization from inspiring English sources
"We have archaeologists with us who are digging through layers of civilization," Ms. Gustafson said.
The setting, both physical and spiritual, was perfectly designed to slough off the sooty layers of civilization: stress, distractedness, fatigue.
It is a record of the layers of civilization embedded in Tunisian society, and a testament to its plurality.
All this star has to do is stand there and grin to convince you that once the layers of civilization have been peeled away, what's left is an insatiable, rampaging id.
And when the clown pulls the curtain back on all the layers of civilization, we can't help laughing, not only at the clown before us but also at ourselves.
In a gender-neutral modern world, chivalric acts are non-onerous rituals that faintly echo our relationship to each other when all the layers of civilization are stripped away; they serve to remind us that we need and should respect, appreciate and quite frankly enjoy each other.
They are fortunate in having many layers of civilization--so many that archeologists can't count them.
The exhibition also includes hands-on work, like the interactive piece by the Moroccan artist Omar Youssufi that riffs on the sands of time and layers of civilizations in the Middle East.
And Rome is always full of surprises; Rome a city, of course, that you see layers upon layer of civilization, that one peels back to get us back to antiquity, but along the way experiences some amazing things.
Both turned in performances powered less by scenery-chewing theatrics than a gradual revealing of characters, as layer upon layer of civilization, breeding and decorum are systematically stripped away.
That voyage and the ship in "Things Such As" both recall — and may be explicitly borrowed from — the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira's "Talking Picture," which meditates rather more coherently (and movingly) than "Film Socialisme" on the clashing and layering of civilizations in the Mediterranean basin.
