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34 examples of Civilisation in a sentence

A group of miners and scientists go on a hunt for some missing colleagues and find their bones in the desert stripped clean of flesh.Their vehicle breaks down and they head for civilisation while being stalked by the monster.
As expected, what passes for a plot in this dire example of wasted celluloid, finishes with no resolution whatsoever, thereby leaving the producers with the option of inflicting 'The Grudge 3' upon the public when the time comes that they feel yet another pang of true hatred for civilisation.
The genetics labs look like they are from a university, and it looks equally unbelievable on the outside (Even for cover-up, why would you place yourself near civilisation where people can easily hear the dinosaur roars), whilst the doctors ward just doesn't look believable at all.
Unlike PLEASANTVILLE this is not about narrow-minded bigotry, more a fable of our urban free-world civilisation of fitting in.
The story throughout pits primitivism against civilisation.
The only escape from the horrors of civilisation as a whole is plenty of primal screaming (yawn) and infantile regression (literally) in a primitive cave-like space in the woods, with utopia taking the form of a rave party - again, in the woods (naturally...).
These four men intended to travel down the river for adventure and excitement but their trip soon changes into an odyssey through a violent and lurking mountain-land, completely estranged from all forms of civilisation.
The very thought of being a normal red-blooded male enjoying an adventure weekend miles from any form of civilisation, only to be captured and sodomised by a couple of violent hillbillies, is surely the worst nightmare of 99.9% of the world's population.
As human beings, we need to learn about humility, about love of the others, about acceptation of other civilisation, other way of living.
alright, it has all the clichés and canons of European civilisation, but simply plucking these cultural allusions from everywhere doesn't show any intelligence.
The storyline is pretty weak and full of holes, there has been a nuclear war that has wiped out most of civilisation, those survivors left alive are being rounded up by the remnants of the army and either shot out hand or forced to work the land, watched over by "The Terminators".
Fred and Ginger's dancing is transcendent and one of the great works of art of Western civilisation for the past 3,000 years.
World civilisation is here made stupendously dull presented by someone who achieves the difficult feat of being extremely superficial and tediously rambling at the same time while being apparently unable to get off-screen long enough for viewers actually to see or appreciate the "treasures" he is so earnestly and witlessly wheezing about.
They drive deep into the isolated forest wilderness where the Buckhorn River Resort is located miles from civilisation, the resort manager Simon (Eric Woods) points them in the general direction of their cabin & they're off.
However, the film attained it's nasty status primarily because of the graphic cover of a hobo being drilled in the head and also because it had a catchy and memorable title which the British tabloids could bandy about whenever they produced an article about the dangers that this new breed of violent films posed to civilisation as we then knew it.
Like the earlier Giallo, The Dead Are Alive, this film focuses on the ancient 'Etruscan' civilisation.
There's the exploited lake girl (also a whore) who tends the pontoon huts in The Isle, miles from civilisation, and the murderer who seeks his hideout on the water.
Hungary will celebrate the 1000th anniversary of its statehood next year, so we hardly need practice in the dialect of European civilisation.
The answer seems to revolve around the central place that European civilisation has given the human person since mixing barbarian customs with Christianity.
By taking the model of a civilisation that puts man and his dignity in a central position, it can also be the starting point for a genuine discussion on the future of Europe.
He showed in it the relations of these two, and how they had always contributed to civilisation.
Such is, alas, the drawback of an excessive civilisation.
'In Paris, I was tired of that perpetual play-acting, to which one is driven by what you call nineteenth-century civilisation.
Nowadays civilisation has banished hazard, there is no room for the unexpected.
This character is wholly imaginary, and is indeed imagined quite apart from the social customs which among all the ages will assure so distinguished a place to the civilisation of the nineteenth century.
Everything that the most elegant civilisation can offer in the way of keen pleasures, was it not all combined to one's heart's content in Mademoiselle de La Mole?'These memories of past happiness took possession of Julien, and rapidly undid all the work of reason.
CHAPTER 31 Making Her AfraidSo this is the fine miracle of your civilisation!
That sere heart felt all the passion that is possible in one brought up amid all that excess of civilisation which Paris admires.
Biggs is our greengrocer, and his chief talent lies in securing the services of the most abandoned and unprincipled errand-boys that civilisation has as yet produced.
Not in summer, as common pigs do now, to cool themselves, and did even in those distant ages (which is a proof that the light of civilisation had already begun to dawn, though feebly), but in the cold, sharp days of winter.