primal

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• We ditch the pretense of our urban lives and become some sort of primal survivor.

• Sitwell’s intense reaction to the fictional retelling of his primal loss reminds readers that history belongs to those who control its narrative, and that fiction can be as powerful, and in some cases even more influential, than fact.

• Such remarks suggest that this primal bond deserves more thorough appraisal than it receives here.

• Back in the ’60s and ’70s, “primal scream” therapy was in vogue with folks as high-profile as John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

• And to this day, liberals in the political world use the name “Willie Horton” to describe an appeal to primal racial fears.

• Levine broods in the meat locker, mad with desire for Prinsloo, whose appetite for him is equally primal.

• I wanted to fill her with pain and primal rage, which was really fun for me.

• Because primal violence is justified by religious belief, “the offenders have no remorse, no fear, and are extremely confident.”

• The “exotic” foreign civilization is somehow more natural, more primal, more sensual, the way people really ought to live.

• The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.

• The primal rigidity of the straight line yields later on to the freedom of an organ.