Organs became an expression of civic culture, and weekly recitals became huge events as organisers, city councils and businesses became keen to make them accessible to the public.

The president's delay in speaking up cast a stain on the civic culture of an indispensable nation.

The polity based on that idea led to a civic culture that was seen as exceptional by all the world.

She envisions a global civic culture as not simply made of nation states but as a global community of human beings.

Magnificence thus reflects the transformation of traditional political structures and epitomizes the flourishing of a new type of civic culture based on virtues which diverged from the previous feudal values.