But it was the audience that got the present: an evening of dance as giddily civilized pleasure.

Their summers were made of small, civilized pleasures acted out on what seemed the most exquisite stage in the world.

Flowers were my parents' only meeting place, for she yearned for the civilized pleasures of fine silver, good company and classical music, and he wanted only the rough satisfactions of plowing, fishing and shooting.

The company's lovely performance made "Airs" a civilized pleasure.

Bourani seemed greenly remote from all that; so far, and yet so near; its small mysteries, which grew smaller as the week passed, no more than an added tang, or hazard, in its other promise of civilized pleasure.

When was the last time you enjoyed any of those civilized pleasures?

The brains of the youngsters would respond by growing circuits that made civilized pleasures and behavior automatic.

In any case, he will be relishing the serene and civilized pleasures of a 9-in-the-morning drink.

But it looks to me like civilized pleasure.

He lavished more devotion on that horse than ever he had on her or their daughters, yet had the temerity to brutally denounce the civilized pleasures she took with her succession of love girls as depraved and unnatural!