Sentence examples for man's civilization from inspiring English sources
Tonto says he doesn't give a dung beetle's fart for the white man's civilization, which has never done him any favors, but he is not satisfied, either.
In the eighteen-sixties, helping to found a small magazine, The Nation, he wrote that in America "a newspaper may well be the only substitute for whatever, in a society more elaborately civilized, keeps a man's commonplace civilization alive".
Dogs once played a vital role in the security of human life and deserve some credit for man's eventual civilization.
Envisioned as a "laboratory for the study of the rise and development of civilization," The Oriental Institute was devoted to Breasted's quest to trace ancient man's "progress" toward civilization and to document the steps in the development of ancient cultures of the Near East.
To the cunning killer, it's "the thinking man's reflex," "the foundation of civilization".
But the film's story of a fringe religion is part of a larger exploration of existential questions about man's animal nature and civilization and its discontents.
Britain saw its role as shouldering the "white man's burden" to spread civilization to the dark and savage parts of the world.
But its story of a new fringe religion in postwar America, while inspired by Dianetics and the early career of L. Ron Hubbard, is merely the backdrop for an exploration of man's animal nature and civilization and its discontents.
Schultz argues that Bane's Revolution is less of a social revolution and more of a one man's personal vendetta against civilization.
Furthermore, the issues that the characters grapple with — the sense of elation at new inventions, the fear that the world may be changing unfathomably quickly, the desire to remake civilization to reflect man's new enlightenment — are as important now as they were in the nineteenth century.
