Sentences with phrase «at civilized»

Lately, after years of painting abstractly in NYC, I was moved to scratch out ideas on paper again... motivated by way too much coffee, and being up way too early (5:00) to hit the studio at a civilized time.

Raise the roof and the thick, multilayer fabric quiets the cabin considerably, blocking the wind's, road's, and even a bit of the raucous V - 8's noise and allowing conversation at a civilized volume.

My pal George over at Civilized Caveman has graciously allowed me to share this scrumptious granola on his blog.

For Quebec City it was WAY easier than going out of Pearson, we had direct flights at civilized times, plus the fare was our lowest option.

The «protesters» are thugs and if these countries were at all civilized their police would crack down end of story.

«Growing a modern media company, it was important to call on the advice of seasoned people,» said Derek Riedle, founder, CEO and publisher at Civilized, a distinctive industry publication aimed at elevating cannabis culture.

Not exact matches

(I haven't watched a TV ad since PVRs were invented, so I'm forced to sit through them at the movies since our ad - revenue - addicted theatre chains refuse to institute reserved seating like the rest of the civilized world.)

Religion is a poison to civilized society, and we need to stop kissing people's butts constantly when they insist on shoving it in our faces at inappropriate times like these guys did on this flight.

Personally, I think they're just as crazy to die as the not - so - smart bombs — but at the same time I know they rely on the fact most Americans are too civilized to do what we all would * like * to.

It is under constant assault and it takes most of the energies of civilized man to keep going at all.

Eye for an eye was a «civilized» control of the society at that time.

«At some future period, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the s @v @ge races.»

Invigorated by these experiences, they broke into Palestine and carved out territories for themselves at the expense of the settled and civilized population.

Those who do not think Jesus existed are frequently militant in their views and remarkably adept at countering evidence that to the rest of the civilized world seems compelling and even unanswerable.

The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope... the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.

I think not as I look at the evolution of civilized man seems to follow a very consistant pattern of constant impovement at some level.

Hey Hindu blah blah blah, look at your Wahhabi brothers, crooks, deniers of truth absolute to Shiite, first civilized your own types and then come and preach Theen Allah to others, goon.

it's your task to convince, and you (general speaking about theists) are becoming less and less successful at that in the civilized world in this information age.

Pixley charges Whitehead's thought with three things: (1) that it is «at the very least... open to appropriation for counterrevolutionary purposes;» (2) that «Justice shines by its absence» from Whitehead's list of five cultural aims as the measure of civilized life; and (3) that Whitehead's philosophy contains within it latent counterrevolutionary tendencies.»

At Nuremberg the civilized world rejected their argument.

When these established orders are all at once demolished, the injury to civilized values may be fatal.

There can be little doubt that in civilized societies at the present time the stress is put on living as well as one can in the present moment or for a fairly short future.

In this context, Gandhi stresses the analogy between Collingwood's reformed metaphysics and Strawson's descriptive metaphysics, two conceptions that, on Gandhi's view, have to be rejected.3 A concept of metaphysics such as that of Whitehead necessitates, on the contrary, «the analysis and critical evaluation of scientific presuppositions in connection with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious, sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experience.

It has its centre in the Temple at Jerusalem with a small amount of contiguous territory, but the writ of its ecclesiastical government runs through hundreds of Jewish colonies, spread over the whole civilized world, and owing political allegiance to various secular states.

I definitely refrain at this stage from using the word «time,» since the measurable time of science and of civilized life generally merely exhibits some aspects of the more fundamental fact of the passage of nature.

It will take painstaking research to determine how much liability adheres to a family that might have owned one or two slaves at different times over two hundred years, and how much to a family that owned hundreds of slaves without interruption, and under conditions that would make any civilized conscience falter.

A civilized society is at least something greater than a simple mixture of homogenized persons.

The first is the realization that at the very moment in which the technical means of developing world community are available and at the very moment when more people than ever are convinced that world community is essential if civilized life is to continue in the world, the division between two parts of the world has become so deep that we can not now see any way in which it can be overcome.

Consequently, a civilized society is but one further instantiation, among a myriad of such instances, of the ultimate creativity which underlies the very process of the world — it is the realization in human social experience of the inherent principle of «creativity - one - many» at work in all things.

They have offered a vision that solves the problem of boredom; that solves the problem of our life in community with others and overcomes the pathologies of so - called civilized life, which finds us at each other's throats as often as not; that solves the problem of our body and our personhood, positing a body that is the one we have always known but finally glorified and without its frailties and decay; and that solves the problem of satisfying those infinite desires that nothing now on earth can fulfill.

Chris Dierkes at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen has a thoughtful post up contesting Sir Edward Downes» son's description of his parents» decision to undergo voluntary euthanization as «a very civilized act».

People who speak out of terms for no reason at all and disrespect others are not civilized at all.

Thus by no arbitrary whim, a civilized society falls under this same ontological classification, at least in more than merely a nominal sense.

And with situations like this it is public whether the families want it to be or not and most of the people who hear this kind of thing are saddened and mourn the loss of the victims as well — or at least civilized human beings do.

Therefore, he proposed the questionable thesis that all civilized religions really center around the same basic point, namely, that there is a permanent rightness at the center of things.

at least in every single muslim country someone can practice their religion... and i know for a fact that theres dozens of churches in jordan and many other muslim countries, JUST not in saudi arabia, which you people feel obliged to keep poking at... if you don't respect their most holy spot, how do you call yourselves «civilized people», more like bullies..

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

One has only to look at the areas of the world where terror has held sway to see that the violence there is typically prolonged by terrorism, sometimes indefinitely, as the opposing sides come to perceive each other as «criminal» and thus as beyond the pale of civilized negotiation.

Like the son of one of the victims said during the CNN interview... we are not civilized... this incident and many others should at this point bring realization to our community that we need to find things out for ourselves.

People need to get over the garbage we are fed in the media and only then will we be able to sit down and talk like civilized people (and not as scared little finger - pointers who yell «terrorist» at everyone they disagree with).

@netwallwarrior — at what point in our history was this society anymore moral or civilized than it is today?

But more generally, Postman is worried about why young people «turn away from civilized speech,» and in his view, the right answer is that «the electronic information environment, with television at its center, is fundamentally hostile to conceptual, segmented, linear modes of expression, so that both writing and speech must lose some of their power» (TCA 74).

Impoverished people in underdeveloped agrarian societies, newly aware of the abundance enjoyed by the people of advanced industrial societies with a long history of civilized development, are demanding at once the benefits of civilization without creating the instruments necessary to produce them.

Such religion defends the status quo at all costs, identifies faith in God with staunch conservatism, and associates «civilized» life with stony immobility in the face of revisionist efforts.

But that doesn't mean I think you are bad or that we can't discuss our disagreement in a civilized manner — as I believe we have manage to do at times.

At a conservative estimate the story of man's origins takes us back at least half a million years and man has been civilized for only about two per cent of this perioAt a conservative estimate the story of man's origins takes us back at least half a million years and man has been civilized for only about two per cent of this perioat least half a million years and man has been civilized for only about two per cent of this period.

That appraisal would have been supported by the fact that geographically Christianity was confined to a smaller proportion of the earth's surface than it had been at the close of the fifth century and that the cultures into which it had entered were held by fewer of civilized mankind than had been true at the close of the preceding height of the Christian tide.

At the extremities of geography, beyond the civilized precincts of all that is safe, we enter the dread terrain of our own extremities as conscious selves.

The whole Genesis story is one of the author's envy at how animals seemed to have it all, including s3x whenever they felt like it, and drew the conclusion that we must somehow have decided to become «civilized» and left our paradise of a jungle and now can not have s3x, etc., because we made a bad choice and were driven out by an angry god for presuming to think for ourselves in complex ways.

He mentions the Americas at some length in his work, but mainly as a recapitulation of the earlier episode of Christian triumph when pagan Roman civilization was successfully converted and civilized.