What is "overcivilized"

Usage examples of "overcivilized".

These people are the product of a highly civilized, perhaps overcivilized, epoch.

I know who makes you and Hurthang look like effete, overcivilized diplomats.

At six feet two inches, Brandark Brandarkson was shorter than Tellian, far less Bahzell, and he dressed like someone who was as close to an overcivilized fop as any hradani could hope to come.

For overcivilized people to experience the approach of such a predator as sexually attractive was not strange.

The whole room seemed ludicrously overdecorated and overstyled and overcivilized, given the issues at hand.

So beautiful is she that I am always having difficulty in remembering that she is a primitive, half-savage cave girl of the stone age, and often find myself mentally limiting her ca-pacities to those of the effete and overcivilized beauties of the outer crust.

She could feel herself shedding the artifice of New York, the overcivilized pretentiousness that defined city life.

There was not a soul around, so that it seemed strange to him when all at once, almost at his elbow, he heard a politely familiar, incidentally rather pleasant voice, with that sweetly drawn-out intonation flaunted among us by overcivilized tradesmen or young, curly-headed sales-clerks from the shopping arcade.

What comes through most vividly is the sense that through these sexual activities the overcivilized inhabitants of Pangbourne can make their escape into a more brutal and more real world of the senses.

These draftee and non-special operations soldiers spent their time either huddling in the oversized, overcivilized base camps, or else timorously sweeping the jungle.

The hierogamy was an old mystery that repelled the overcivilized mind, dying with the old Celtic and Greek votaries.