Sentence examples for view of civilisation from inspiring English sources

The Jesuits followed close behind the conquistadors, and established the missions that gave modern Misiones its name, herding thousands of animist Guaraní within their 'protective' walls in a bid to impose their own view of civilisation – a process fictionalised in the 1986 Oscar-winning Robert De Niro film The Mission.

Eliot's contemporary Siegfried Sassoon had more reason than most to take a dim view of civilisation and all its works, given his combat experiences, but in a poem called Miracles he turns the humble canal into a bearer of hope, a hope of freedom and peace in the wake of the first world war.

One lot, the good Autobots, take a benevolent view of our civilisation; the others, the evil Decepticons, are a threat to mankind.

Explaining his view of Arab culture as extinct, he says: "What is civilisation?

Once it was closely related to the very idea of "being cultivated", an entirely passé notion connected with membership of a certain view of European, Græco-Roman civilisation.

Vico propounded a cyclical view of history, in which civilisation rose from chaos, passed through theocratic, aristocratic, and democratic phases, and then lapsed back into chaos.

The peak viewing season in Norway is October to March, and although they can be clearly visible in cities such as Tromso, they're best viewed far from the lights of civilisation.

The view that geometry had a ritual origin is a part of a wider view that civilisation itself had a ritual origin, and therefore the history of utilisation of Sacred Geometry by man goes back to many centuries ago.

Before the 18th century, the civilised traveller looked for marks of civilisation; a wild landscape was viewed only as a place unmarked by human improvement.

Freud, of course, was Viennese, and The Uncanny is written from the point of view of someone who inhabits the civilisation that produced these stories.

I sometimes think the second world war has changed our entire western civilisation's view of war, because, of all the wars in history, the second world war is closest to fantasy war, in which there is a dark lord, whose guys are actually evil and dress in black and wear skulls on their uniforms.