You have a civilized culture here and it has been contaminated by barbaric influences.

Their own civilized and disciplined culture, developed over 8,000 years of freedom, was not considered.

Or, more specifically, their fear that two humans who love each other and want to get married will destroy "civilized" culture.

Y' might expect that kind of thing in a civilized culture, but.

It sounds as if they were very close to developing a truly civilized culture.

Things we learn in the process of growing up in a civilized culture.

Which, it's uniformly agreed, is frightening and should not be the way of a civilized culture.

The ancient Greeks thought of themselves as the most civilized culture in the world.

There wasn't any sign of civilized culture on that planet.

This valley had long been cut off from the civilized culture outside and was discovered only few years back.