Sentences with phrase «highly civilized»

The takeaway for those who mainly drive on paved roads — and let's be honest, that's the vast majority — is this: The Jeep Renegade is a highly civilized small SUV.

A Quiet Passion: Filmed in Belgium and looking like it was shot by Vermeer, Terence Davies» Emily Dickinson biopic persuasively transports us to 19th century Massachusetts and into the fiercely brainy poet's (not always) highly civilized home.

Political economists, indeed, will not give it this rank; but whether we regard it as joke or earnest, it is not the less true, that, of two countries, with an equal amount of population, we may declare with positive certainty, that the wealthiest and most highly civilized is that which consumes the greatest weight of soap.

When I read that the only Caribbean island with its own Zagat Restaurant Guide is Barbados, I flashed back to our trip to that highly civilized country that is run like a business.

One asks: How could the Holocaust have occurred in a highly civilized society rich in historical mores, the practice of religion, and a vigorous intellectual life?

His major political accomplishment, in fact, seems to have been to have held the British empire to a highly civilized moral standard.

In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.

Thus the form of Gnostic self - expression can be understood as a consequence of the direct impact of Socratic existence on highly civilized peoples prepared for the axial revolution, but not yet freed from the dominant power of the mythical.

The Babylonians were a highly civilized mercantile people.

Few nations were to all appearance more effectively put down: exhausted by successive defeats in war, reduced to a mere remnant, deported to distant countries, subjected to the long - continued domination of alien and highly civilized Great Powers.

Not exact matches

Most of the highly successful, civilized countries of this world were founded by Christians or are now civilized and habitable due to Christians.

Kpagih explained that he had visited the ten Local Government Areas where the election would hold and discovered that people in those areas were highly intelligent, peaceful, educated and civilized citizens.

As it stands, Arthur and his men are somewhat civilized, but they live in a highly uncivilized time.

If you're looking for a big, roomy, highly capable hauler that's as quiet, comfortable and civilized as most luxury sedans, you have two logical choices.

The highly refined suspension system and the carlike demeanor of the ML320 make it a civilized off - road vehicle.

The beauty and power of the natural world and the accomplishments of highly literate and civilized cultures are celebrated in Beverly Miller Orthwein's sophisticated watercolors.

With a panel of highly professional and experienced mediators, we have helped many couples all across Massachusetts to end their marriage in a civilized and non traumatic way.