Completely civilized, did you say?

We live in a civilized society.

All civilized countries are against war.

He's much more civilized than that.

Seems like a very civilized fellow.

You're a civilized man, aren't you?

Ben, I think we're two civilized human beings.

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

You could try and be a bit more civilized.

The man, killing just for sport, is called civilized.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

If it were not for electricity, our civilized life would be impossible.

Build our science, civilized and advanced idea of marriage and giving birth.

A completely civilized point of view. I tell you what you do.

In a civilized society, a network of laws protects man against his own brutality, but for Richard Kimble, living outside the law, the civilized world has become a jungle.

I shall naturally order my behaviour according to the accepted rules of civilized intercourse.

The surrounding scene shows a struggle between civilized humans and the wild and ferocious animals.

He was just enough civilized to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manners.

And so I thought perhaps a really civilized sounding British accent might help things a bit.

Civil, as in civilized, as in covered still, for the time being, under this veil of civility.

Since using a version database is the first thing to use in any kind of civilized software development,

For instance, this is what it's like to go to a newsstand almost anywhere in the civilized world.

Mr. Uef! I am a representative of a civilized planet, and I demand that you mind your lexicon!

I'll put a price on your head so big... you won't be able to go near a civilized system.

In China, in the run up to the Olympics when we were there, there was a campaign called Let's get civilized , where they were trying to encourage the people to behave in a much more civilized manner to show their country in a good light.

When we learned how to make carbon our slave, instead of other human beings, we started to learn how to be able to be civilized people.

Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a civilized town, that astonishment soon departed upon taking my first daylight stroll through the streets of New Bedford.

Because these weapons can kill on a mass scale with no distinction between soldier and infant, the civilized world has spent a century working to ban them.

For we are called to meet the challenge of of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

That means, we can imagine I don't say it was fantastic, but in the '80s, there was not too much war, like that, it was we can imagine that the civilization can become civilized.

And if we cannot demonstrate to these groups that if you move towards democracy, if you move towards taking part in civilized and normal standards among states, there are some rewards on the other side.

Thinks I, Queequeg, under the circumstances, this is a very civilized overture but, the truth is, these savages have an innate sense of delicacy, say what you will it is marvellous how essentially polite they are.

Even the issue of civility, which we're all talking so much about or our lack of it has its roots across the dinner plate because it's there that we all learned our first lesson in civilized behavior, right?

But ultimately, the government prevailed in the end, because the majority of the British public, and certainly the majority of members of Parliament, came to the conclusion that it was really something that should not be tolerated in a civilized society.

And he, when Toussaint L'Ouverture shows up by himself for a very civilized meeting, he gets some people to arrest him, capture him, and then send him on a boat to France, and essentially Toussaint L'Ouverture, he dies in France in a prison.

If he had not been a small degree civilized, he very probably would not have troubled himself with boots at all but then, if he had not been still a savage, he never would have dreamt of getting under the bed to put them on.

But they also wanted it absolutely set down that they didn't agree with it, from a decent respect for the opinions and practice of civilized nations, whether under republican or monarchical forms of government, whose custom it is to annex, through the office of the Chief Magistrate, titles of respectability not bloody President.

Maybe they exaggerated their style because they thought that they were not considered to be quite civilized, and they transferred that generational attitude or anxiety onto us, the next generation, so much so that when I was growing up, if ever on the television news or radio a report came up about a black person committing some crime a mugging, a murder, a burglary we winced along with our parents, because they were letting the side down.