"We were minding our own business, having a perfectly civilized discussion, and suddenly we were attacked for no reason."

A Hungarian melody squeezed here, clipped there, became through adaptive engineering a perfectly civilized member of Haydn's symphonic world.

David Blunkett, a former cabinet minister, urged Labor supporters to give Mr. Blair time to orchestrate his departure in a leisurely and "perfectly civilized way."

They conducted themselves in exemplary fashion and had established a perfectly civilized relationship with the Ganymeans long before the ship came to Earth.

We lived in a perfectly civilized little town.

But I find it profoundly depressing that it is even newsworthy that a handful of Muslims are having a perfectly civilized discussion about human rights.

At first glance, like a perfectly civilized affair, a trifling matter that might be settled over dinner.

Industrial Algebra had approached us in a perfectly civilized fashion, at first.

It looked like a perfectly civilized summit, except for the fact that one of the men had a gun resting in his lap.

Alan's parents were perfectly civilized about the marriage, and Alan took considerable satisfaction in the fact that he knew they were rather shocked.