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Parking is torturous enough through the Melrose corridor on the weekdays, plus giving a restaurant staff off on Saturday and Sunday seems boldly civilized.
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Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
The violence that the banana goliath’s civilizing mission unleashes upon the Colombian landscape and its people is not a bug.
—Eduardo Porter, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
The United Kingdom’s nineteenth-century civilizing mission, although rarely mentioned in Stern’s work, was an article of faith at home and in the empire.
—Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
Colonialism, once equated by the West with civilizing progress, became synonymous with iniquity.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
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Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
The violence that the banana goliath’s civilizing mission unleashes upon the Colombian landscape and its people is not a bug.
—Eduardo Porter, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
The United Kingdom’s nineteenth-century civilizing mission, although rarely mentioned in Stern’s work, was an article of faith at home and in the empire.
—Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
Colonialism, once equated by the West with civilizing progress, became synonymous with iniquity.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
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“Civilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civilize. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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