Sentence examples for solid civilization from inspiring English sources
In his novels, he said, murders become "symbols of other things — chaos, the fear that what we see as safe and solid civilization really is just varnish".
In his novels, he said, murders become "symbols of other things chaos, the fear that what we see as safe and solid civilization really is just varnish".
To a child, family life looks as fixed and solid as a civilization, with rituals and routines and prohibitions — boxes of ornaments that have always been in the basement and silverware that has always been resting in the drawer.
Six big paintings by Peter Gregorio, based on his travels in Nepal and India, provide fragmentary glimpses of the complex architecture of these ancient civilizations, solid, heavily ornamented stonework that he shows in isolated elements, so that each painting becomes a sort of composite.
"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism," a character says in one.
Modern civilization has created problems of solid-waste disposal, from the manufacture of durable goods, such as automobiles and refrigerators, produced in large numbers with a limited life, to the small package, previously disposable, now often indestructible.
There is something distinctive and recognizable in English civilization.…It is somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar-boxes.
Or take the classic Civilization – it gives you a basic but very solid picture of how human progress works.
Western civilization produced it.
