Sentence examples for separating civilization from inspiring English sources

"Law enforcement is the line separating civilization from total chaos.

Wes Craven's 1977 film, "The Hills Have Eyes," in which suburbanites battled mutant cannibals, was a pulpy parable of the thin line separating civilization from savagery.

"Law enforcement is the line separating civilization from total chaos," Trump said. .

"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism," a character says in one.

IN the wake of widespread violence during the New York City blackout of 1977, a newspaper columnist quipped that just one flick of a light switch separated civilization from primordial chaos.

I do think that certain people do experience an anxiety over being wrongly accused or incarcerated and unable to make contact with the outside world, and things getting worse and worse — being separated from civilization and legal proceedings.

Amerindians in Venezuelan Piaroa have been separated from civilization for 15 000–20 000 years.

Those who want to promote dialogue and peace between "civilizations" or "cultures" concede at least one crucial point to those who, like Osama bin Laden, promote a clash of civilizations: that separate civilizations do exist.

Instead of being separated by civilizations, techniques or schools, the 205 rotating works from seven departments from the Louvre in Paris are displayed chronologically in the new museum's main gallery, the Galerie du Temps, a slightly curving, 32,000-square-foot aluminum-walled space with a timeline spanning five millenniums etched along one wall.

When Macedonia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, Greece immediately protested the name and flag — accusing the new country of staking claims to Greek territory and of trying to separate ancient Macedonian civilization from Hellenic culture.

In "The Affirmative Character of Culture" Marcuse, in good dialectical fashion, shows how culture separates itself from society or civilization and creates the space for critical thought and social change but then succumbs to the oppressive demands of bourgeois society.