The followers of a minor sect turning their backs on civilized comfort for the sake of imagined spiritual reward.

There was a civilized comfort about these winter evenings that gained by contrast with the hardships of daytime.

Why then is the height of civilized comfort sitting sideways in a chair, your legs up and over the arm?

In the civilized comfort of your heated or air-conditioned car, you can swing into a lot and coast into a space.

We learn about his marriage and his two children, and his growing sense, amid the civilized comfort of Haverford, that "the edge of experience lay elsewhere."

If you think there is anything romantic, or desirable per se, in getting along without civilized comforts, well, you just ought to try tackling a two-holer on a frosty morning.

Habits tame the raw wilderness of existence into the civilized comforts of everyday life.

Stay overnight in civilized comfort.

By keeping still, they suggest that they are luxuriating in the civilized comfort of a cafe at twilight.