Sentences with phrase «died as civilization»

Understanding that the American West didn't flourish under the railroad, but floundered and died as civilization encroached upon and ravished what was believed to be an indefatigable nature, Winterbottom's introduction of the passing of the Central Pacific Railway accomplishes the agile trick of balancing and subtly subverting the perceptions of the railroad in Europe (bad), with the perceptions of the railroad, simultaneously, in the United States (good).

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For the old racism did not die with civil rights, just as the old Adam doesn't disappear with civilization.

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

Harmony is «as important for us now, as [it was] then at the dawn of the modern world, when civilizations of the old type were dying» (Adventures 147).

«A doomer is one who believes that problems of ecological overshoot, such as over population, climate change, pollution and especially peak oil, will cause the collapse of industrial civilization, and, a significant human population die - off.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander), who also directed Ford to success a year before in the Best Picture - nominated Witness, directs this Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Affliction) adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel, casting Ford as Allie Fox, a disgruntled American inventor who gets so pissed off at the loss of what he believes is a dying America, he decides to pack up his bags and family, taking them to the rain forests of South America to live a life away from civilization, and the threat of nuclear annihilation he believes is imminent.

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The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: Orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another.

What follows is perhaps the most unique road movie one could imagine, as Hank hauls the corpse (soon to be dubbed Manny) across the wilderness in search of home, civilization and the girl on the home screen of his rapidly dying signal - bereft phone (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).

The close association of butterflies to fire and warfare persisted through to the Aztec civilization and in Roman as well as Japanese culture the butterfly has been known to be the personification of a person's soul; whether they be living, dying, or already dead.

What «doubters, aka «skeptics», better understood as vicious propagandists need to know for sure... When sea levels rise, millions die, and civilization as we know it ceased to exist, your names will be entered alongside Goebels, Stalin, et al as monsters of history.

At some point you have to suspect that the rulers want a massive die - off as a way to save civilization from the desperate poor, sick, and old.