Sentence examples for semblance of civilisation from inspiring English sources
In the opening episode of the sixth season of The Walking Dead, the humans are strengthening a security fence around the Alexandria free zone, somewhere in Virginia, to keep out a new horde of the undead and ensure that their semblance of civilisation is not overrun by the barbarian other.
Can you imagine what it was like to have all semblance of civilisation stripped away before surrender, and now be faced with the very soldiers who were killing your families arriving and throwing you out of your house?" Around these intensely personal and emotional interactions, there is the horrific backdrop of a devastated nation.
At times there's a vague semblance of past civilisation, but clearly overrun for ages.
In the early 1990s he described himself as an "advocate of civilisation, definer of civilisation, teacher of the rules of civilisation…leader (possibly) of the civilising forces".
Surely, the end of civilisation.
Research libraries preserve the record of civilisation.
They suggest a failure of civilisation.
WHAT is the basis of civilisation?
End of civilisation, right there".
Hours are spent without sign of civilisation.
