Sentences with phrase «encroaching civilization»

Jacquette uses her distinctive bird's - eye view to arrange powerful compositions, depicting well - known buildings, bridges, and neighborhood intersections with an acute attention to architectural detail, or identifying rural scenes subject to the dangers of encroaching civilization.

The mythological tale of a war between encroaching civilization and the beast gods of the forest.

It is where the tiny crinkled yellow - brown aborigines known as Bushmen have made their last stand against encroaching civilization, speaking in the clucking tongue of turkeys, eating lizards, hunting with bows and arrows and enduring the probing of fascinated anthropologists.

Not exact matches

The world has been in religion - cultural turmoil during the last two centuries, as the Western civilization has encroached into, penetrated, destroyed and dominated non-Western religions, cultures and civilizations on a global scale.

of Lemurs: Madagascar (G) Morgan Freeman narrates this endangered species documentary, shot in IMAX 3D, offering a spectacular peek at lemurs» struggle to survive as civilization continues to encroach on their natural habitat.

The story, cobbled together by the director and young film enthusiasts Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, plays like a collection of the genre's greatest hits: the tense, real - time set pieces of High Noon; the mysterious hero of Shane; the encroaching antlike forces of civilization as explored in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

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).

... closely observed gastronomic and natural history vignettes laced with a sense of a disappearing world as civilization encroaches on the wilds...

Civilization tends to grow so as it grows and / or encroaches it will create a trend.