Yet today we must recognize with horror that these pillars of civilized human existence have lost their firmness.

He saw little of Addels except at the stately dinners which Ad- dels considered a basic element of civilized existence.

Privacy is an essential ingredient of civilized human existence.

Peter went through the credit cards, club membership cards, driver's licence and all the other clutter of civilized existence.

A return to handmade goods for the home, which was celebrated as the core of civilized existence, was the goal of the movement.

The cat was the hunter's only link to the past, to the civilized existence the hunter once had known.

They win every time, and allow us to return to the bland safety of our civilized existences.

Such mental influence was contrary to every ethical and moral tenet his people had developed over millennia of civilized existence.

Thereafter he mournfully accepted life in retirement, and amenities of civilized existence.

To air differences and remain friends, the essence of civilized existence, don't you think?