Sentence examples for old civilized from inspiring English sources

This outlook, reinforced by other patristic literature, would long dominate medieval thought, for with the decline of civilization in the West the church became more completely the repository of learning and of the remnants of the old civilized life.

Did you know, that in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords?

"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords".

But it's clear that this great country of ours has returned to its Wild West-style vigilante justice roots: extra-judicial killings have become the blood sport du jour for one of the oldest civilized democracies.

Here's one of the best bits: Responding to a reader who objected to his previous characterization of Italians as "the worst soldiers of this century", Macdonald wrote that "he misses my point, intended as a compliment, which is that because they are an old and civilized people, the Italians have no stomach for dying en masse for some abstract cause, and especially for a bad one".

Maybe it wouldn't hurt to have an old fashioned, civilized "tea party" conversation to discuss what really lies beneath our rush to judgment and suspicion about all those internalized fears and biases about darker-skinned people.

We can learn from "Old Europe" more civilized and satisfying ways of enjoying our meals and perhaps obtain the added bonus of achieving and maintaining better health.

I've seen enough cowboy movies to appreciate the excitement of mixing two fisted drinking with a one fisted handgun, but even the old West got civilized and had patrons check their side arms.

Despite my grim mood, I had somehow or other managed to put on makeup, pull on clothes, affix pearl earrings and go to a civilized old-New York type of dinner, where we talked of ongoing things — children, schools, plays to see, reasons to live as opposed to reasons to die.

As I prepared for the event, I marveled at the way libraries — one of the oldest fixtures of civilized society — remain an essential part of civic life even in modern times.

But getting off a train in downtown Newark to watch Kidd and Kenyon Martin and all these other leapers and passers growing old gracefully sounds pretty civilized to me.