I am trying to carry on a civilized conversation with an ugly person and you descend, girl, to name calling.

The other dining rooms are quieter but still too loud for civilized conversation.

Why can't two people, who just happened to be married to each other, have a civilized conversation?

It took every bit of Blake's self-control to stay in the same room with her and to carry on a reasonably civilized conversation.

First time any of us have had a civilized conversation with anyone from there in a decade, at least.

Was this civilized, standard conversation taking place as I neared my appointment with a murderer?

'One might wonder when it will rain next' would be used instead in civilized conversation.

I move we be permitted, now and then, to have a banquet in which there is nothing more than civilized conversation.

An onlooker would have seen no more than two men sitting in civilized conversation.

If I may conduct you back to civilized conversation, madam?