Sentences with phrase «called civilized»

One of the common postures in the so - called civilized world is that of the phone addicted, with their head bowed toward the device, thumbs hovering over the keyboard, just waiting for one more email or one more funny picture or one more text message to arrive.

Hidden beneath the totems of so - called civilized culture, we find the barbaric truths of feudalism, serfdom, colonialism, and imperialism.

Seeking, seizing and holding «control,» necessary as it sometimes seem in a so - called civilized society, almost always leads to bad things, including most of the dog abuse that occurs in our country.

If I had been asked to write about that vehicle, I would have used words like screamer and addictive, I doubt if I'd have called it civilized.

Walkabout is a deceptively simple tale about lost children trying to find their way home that slowly grows into a treatise against the continued expansion of industry, the domination of humanity over unbridled nature, and the correlation between the savageries still inherent in so - called civilized society.

Back in the olden days, all food was finger food and even so - called civilized folks ate with their hands, with perhaps just a knife for cutting meat.

Not only have natural disasters such as earthquakes occurred; atrocities of apocalyptic dimensions have been committed by the so - called civilized nations.

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.

Every one of the so - called civilized countries knows this game.

I am saying, for one thing, that violence is the general rule for the existence of societies — including the societies that call themselves civilized but have only camouflaged violence by explaining and justifying it and putting a good face on it.

What a shame billions of dollars and thousands of lives have been lost and we call ourselves civilized.

How can we call ourselves a civilized nation if we can't even do something so basic as to care for mothers after the birth of a child?

It's a vile substance that frankly has no place anywhere that calls itself civilized, even partly aware of the impact of that place's effect on polluting the environment and sustainable use of resources.

Not exact matches

«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.

Separately, Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, is circulating a letter among his colleagues, calling on the A.T.F. to re-evaluate bump stocks, which he said had «no place in civilized society.»

The way I see it — the terrorists who kill are perpetrating a killing which itself is in response to a much larger killing that is being perpetrated by civilized, clean - shaven, so - called progressive westerners like yourself.

The rest of the civilized world calls that lying.

The s @v @ge races as you call them are intermixing with the civilized races.

If I was having this discussion with someone on Youtube, I would now be calling you an asshole; but, we try to be more civilized than that here.

Forms — let's call them for the moment manners, little rules of protocol, the observance of ceremonies — are the heart and soul of civilized life.

Myroslav Marynovych, a vice-rector, quoted King George VI's words to the British people in 1939: «We have been forced into a conflict, for which we are called... to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.»

It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the human rights norms that every civilized nation agrees on.

As a preliminary point it is worth noting that neither a civilized society nor a Society per se is to be classified as an instance of what Whitehead calls an «actual entity» or primary existent.

It is quite another to call the fight by civilized nations against terrorism, including state sponsored terrorism, an act of terrorism itself whether you agree with the fight or not.

In The True and Only Heaven, Christopher Lasch called such an approach the «politics of the civilized minority.»

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..

I call people who seek revenge, other than what is allowed under a civilized society's laws (as in, laws not based on religious «laws» that might allow an eye - for - an - eye mentality), for having their property destroyed stupid and primitive.

Under the Arsacids, a Parthian dynasty, it embraced most of the Tigris - Euphrates Valley with its early seats of civilized mankind as well as what we now call Iran.

after these types of actions by the so called «civilized» american society, christians and other non-muslims will be put in further danger in places like Pakistan.

Kenneth Boulding calls the twentieth century a period of transition, from a civilized society to the age of post-civilization.

«Since neither President Muhammadu Buhari nor Acting President Yemi Osinbajo could have authorized the contemptuous statement issued on behalf of the Presidency, Mr. Shehu Garba should be called to order and restrained from further exposing the Federal Republic of Nigeria to ridicule before the comity of civilized nations» Falana said.

We huddled in our cook tent and listened to some music on a pair of battery - powered speakers while Mackay made us a treat: a dash of rum with Raro, a Tang - like powder drink popular in New Zealand, the last civilized port of call for researchers heading to the Dry Valleys.

In a hundred years, historians will probably divide modern civilization into pre-HTML and post-HTML eras in the same way we called the time before we invented writing pre-history, and history as the time after writing; the gift that civilized us.

We are still operating in an 18th - century mindset, believing that these young, half - civilized things called children must be literally whipped into shape, if not with a stick then with a never - ending schedule.

We'd be hard - pressed to call the littlest bull «civilized,» but it's certainly one of the most livable Lamborghinis we've been in.

New Car Test Drive called it... the smoothest, quietest, most civilized, best equipped, and most enjoyable pickup truck we \ \ \ \ \ \ \'ve ever driven... J.D. Power and Associates gave the 2005 Silverado 2500HD 4 out of 5 Power Circles for Overall Initial Quality Mechanical.

For I don't subscribe to a narrative that places tribes on one end of the binary and nation - states on the other end, especially how this binary too often calls one end «savage» and the other «civilized.»

Johanna, called «Cicada» by the Kiowa, gradually responds to his attempts at conversation and «civilized» manners, especially when his voice turns patient and soothing.

About the Book Clone City narrates the story of a city called Joypolis whose inhabitants believe it is the last civilized outpost of humankind.

The right to buy and own property and for a rule of law to treat all citizens equally are the hallmarks of a civilized, democratic society no matter what it is called.

In fact, just about everyone tired of being called a racist, xenophobe, homophobe, moroon, mouth breather, deplorable and anything else irrelevant in a civilized political debate tended to swing in Trump's direction given the alternative.

All very civilized without any name calling.

All in all, it was a very civilized riot, and a great learning experience for everyone involved, that would prove to be just the beginning of a very productive relationship between Carswell and CALL.