How To Use Primitive In A Sentence
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By the 3rd millennium B.C., they had developed a primitive form of cost accounting, elaborate techniques of budgeting and planning, and calculative techniques for devising labor standards.
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The largest of these primitive ‘trees’ were giant lycopods reaching upwards of 20 meters, but most of the plants grew to less than a meter above the ground.
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Accordingly he compromised by saying that while the present world as it is is not eternal, it came from a primitive "hyle" or matter, which was eternal.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
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Many primitive societies attach existential weight to the names of things.
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
The Waverley
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The success of the barometer led to the development of primitive air pumps.
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Myles L. Miller, Scott S. Hughes, 2009, Mixing primitive and evolved olivine tholeiite magmas in the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho
Scientific Articles on Yellowstone
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Furthermore, outgroup comparison (with macaques, for example) indicates that some of these characters are primitive for the cercopithecid clade that includes these species (Papionina).
Archive 2006-06-01
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The sound of the human whistle, like that in the most primitive instrumental forms - a whistle fashioned from a hollow tube of wood or straw - is made by the turbulence generated in an airstream at the narrow orifice formed by pursing the lips.
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* In primitive conditions, given the unsually demanding task (compared to other mammals) of raising human babies, paternal investment in offspring is required.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Interracial Marriage Rates Going Up
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In an earlier time, we would have said that such people were primitives, uncivilized.
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The first he would have described as a natural system - like a primitive state of nature, an uncivilized, anarchic world where the most powerful tyrannize the rest.
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This second gene is only found in holometabolous insects, Drosophila, and silkworms but not in the more primitive hemimetabolous insects, like grasshoppers or springtails.
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This trio of young ones from Melbourne, Australia makes a primitive, minimalist form of noise rock (vocalist Jonnine Standish's percussion instrument is a single maraca and a floor tom).
Boing Boing
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The minority in the primitive forest used to live on a diet of wild animals.
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the hedgehog is a primitive and generalized mammal
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My research has largely been in the chemistry of how the particular components of chondrites, very primitive meteorites, actually formed in the solar nebula.
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How much easier, and how reassuring, if they could all simply be understood as primitive, unevolved manikins.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let her go abroad and tell the world how primitive is the structure of our society.
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It was originally built of brick and rubblework, but since the restoration in the seventeenth century it has lost its primitive character.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Unlike fetishism, say, or scopophilia, the unappeasable, primitive drives that figure in Antoni's work don't readily lend themselves to sophisticated, daring imagery, the stuff of art.
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Reich 1974 placed the impulsive character, the neurotic character, and the psychopath between neurosis and psychosis and observed the ambivalence, hostile pregenital impulses, ego and superego deficits, immature defenses, and primitive narcissistic features of the impulsive personality.
Clinical Work with Adolescents
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There, the primitive mind practiced animistic shamanism.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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There is no matematical or physic law which can explain a primitive life form such as a animalcule.
Why biology is harder than physics
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I came to intellectually accept the existence of this energy and often cited it when chatting with friends, but deep down I wondered whether it really existed and whether it might be simply a primitive word for the circulation of the blood, the tingling of nerves, the flow of lymph, or, more technically, the bioelectric energy of life stimulated by the charge potential that exists across cell membranes.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Do You Feel the Energy of Life?
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The Balinese tourism industry would be destroyed and the island, now poor but developing, would be plunged into primitive semi-starvation.
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They are triggered by the basal ganglia, clusters of neurones located deep in the primitive, nonreasoning area of the brain.
Times, Sunday Times
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They often use primitive weapons rocks, blunt objects and machetes to conserve their limited munitions and inflect maximum brutality.
Jedidiah Jenkins: Obama Made the Right Decision in Africa, Here's Why...
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After the egg has been fertilized by the male, the blastoderm, or primitive skin, forms, and subsequently two layers, or embryonal membranes, appear; the outer is called the amnion (Fig. 114, _am_), while the inner visceral membrane (_db_) partially wraps the rude form of the embryo in its folds.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
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A number of types of armor have been found with it, indicating that primitive as well as advanced titanosaurs possessed bony plates in the skin.
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In relatively primitive organisms like clams, all nerves are unmyelinated.
Stem cells, Part 1, Introduction and Ethics
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It is, however, much more common in alluvial grounds than among primitive and pyrogenous rocks.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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First came the Primitive or Primary rocks, then the Secondary, than finally the Alluvial or Tertiary.
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Besides, it is not only possible, but even probable, that both theories -- that of heterogenetic generation and that of gradual development -- may have to share with one another in the explanation of the origin of species; and even that, especially for the lowest species and for the beginnings of the main types, primitive generation also has its share in the establishment of the paternity.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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The French had a good breech-loading rifle, the chassepot, also the mitrailleuse, a primitive machine gun, but their muzzle-loading artillery was outclassed by Prussian breech-loaders.
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I was merrily typing away to friends in some primitive chat room on my IBM XT (super nerd), listening to some music (probably Flock of Seagulls -- nerd++), and watching Back to the Future with the sound off (neeeeerrrrrrrd).
Archive 2006-08-01
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In each the primitive, sometimes bestial is joined obdurately to the modern and sophisticated.
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It also opens a wider question as to whether civilised societies could so quickly revert to primitive behaviour.
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The one certain aspect is that the summits and depths reached by the adventure tourist are found in a state of magnificent and primitive valor, making the adventurer a universal traveler.
Guide to alternative tourism in Michoacán
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Since two of the primitive calymenides, Pharostomina and Bavarilla, had natant hypostomes it seems very likely that the Cambrian sister taxon would also be natant.
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A typical marine community consisted of these animals, plus red and green algae, primitive fish, cephalopods, corals, crinoids, and gastropods.
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In the early spring of 1762 Hazen joined the pioneers with a party of settlers who built a primitive sawmill and gristmill and constructed rude shelters.
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The minority in the primitive forest used to live on a diet of wild animals.
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Ancient and primitive tribes used these plants, often combined with different earths, to colour and decorate their faces and bodies.
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This analysis is a first step in reconstructing the details of possible evolutionary relationships among primitive cladid crinoids.
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According to the theory of evolution, all flora and fauna developed from a single-celled being, something like a primitive bacterium.
Modern Science in the Bible
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Living conditions in the camp were pretty primitive.
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The heart appears to be the most primitive of all adult vertebrates, with the auricle, ventricle and conus arteriosus arranged in straight line, rather than being doubled over one another.
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Thus primitive Christians had all things common, Acts iv. 32, but that is no ground for anabaptistical community.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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The platypus is considered a primitive mammal, yet its bill appears to be highly advanced.
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The bitwise operators allow you to manipulate individual bits in an integral primitive data type.
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We retain reptilian reflexes deep in our minds (fight or flight) while the more complex structuring of knowledge (how to do statistics) is layered over those primitive networks.
Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives
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Kale is the more primitive of the two, and was the ordinary green stuff of country people in most parts of Europe until the end of the Middle Ages, when the headed cabbages were bred.
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I shall count my country _lost_, in the loss of the primitive _principles_, and the primitive _practices_, upon which it was at first established: but certainly one good way to save that _loss_, would be to do something, that the memory of _the great things done for us by our God_, may not be _lost_, and that the story of the circumstances attending the _foundation_ and _formation_ of this country, and of its _preservation_ hitherto, may be impartially handed unto posterity.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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Antonio and I looked closely at their wrappings and noted the way in which their mummied forms had been ranged before this idol -- that certainly belonged to a primitive time -- the more were we inclined to believe that this weird sepulchre belonged to the very far back past.
The Aztec Treasure-House
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The term ‘stem cells’ refers to a diverse group of primitive cells that are themselves relatively undifferentiated and unspecialized.
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Sanskrit _bharna_, which signifies "the borne one," "that which is born," from the primitive Indo-European root _bhr_, "to bear, to carry in the womb," whence our "to _bear_" and the German
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
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William Penn, son of a vice-admiral, resolved to go and establish what he called the primitive Church on the shores of
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Most of us realize that humanity made a grave mistake by considering ancient civilizations to be primitive.
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From the caves of Lascaux to the clay or stone figures made by primitives and modernists, animal likenesses or essences have abounded in humankind's representational practices.
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The Eskimos of the far north are primitive.
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The art work is primitive but the silly little joke is what comics used to be about.
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The simplest two-instrument cell injection technique for both primitive streak stage and for early somite stage embryos will be described.
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For her father's comfort, noting the sad wistful eyes that watched her coming in and going out, she had resigned herself to spend long melancholy hours within doors, reading aloud till Sir John fell asleep, playing backgammon -- a game she detested worse even than shove-halfpenny, which latter primitive game they played sometimes on the shovel-board in the hall.
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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Those struggles were of an extremely primitive character, involving the destruction of machinery by workers.
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There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it.
Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
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The word is either a corruption of "bandore" or "pandura" (_q. v._), an instrument of the guitar type, or is derived from "bania," the name of a similar primitive Senegambian instrument.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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Over thousands of years, the accuracy of maps didn't improve significantly faster than the accuracy of primitive timepieces such as the sundial or water clock.
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But this ‘primitive chemistry’ was also a sophisticated hermetic philosophy.
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They do it by seein" that primitive forms are in what they call the older layers.
Space
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We also stopped to hike on a primitive trail, up and over a short ridge to a small, isolated lake.
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But the secret and symbolical hint was the harmonical nature of the soul; which, delivered from the body, went again to enjoy the primitive harmony of heaven, from whence it first descended; which, according to its progress traced by antiquity, came down by Cancer, and ascended by
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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The art forms that emerged in the early period of civilisation are primitive and catered to a people who had no alternative.
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In the 1980s Jacques Kerchache, a former dealer, collector and connoisseur of primitive art, took up the cudgels again.
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Both sites show evidence they once contained liquid water and might therefore harbor fossils of primitive life.
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D Mens t-shirt in white cotton jersey, generously cut and decorated with a primitive fish motif.
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4 Based on its primitive characteristics, Louis identified the tooth as that of a cercopithecoid a monkey and sent it along with the other Laetoli fossils to the British Museum of Natural History.
Ancestral Passions
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The medical practitioner in primitive society, the medicine man, is primarily priest or shaman.
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The new foliage is astonishingly delicate, as good as any maple, and everyone loves that primitive, fan-shaped leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has long been known that the shrimps and lobsters are the most primitive of the decapods and, in fact, have the oldest fossil records.
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The presence of cyanite, rutile-titanite, and garnets, and the absence of Lydian stone, and all fragmentary or arenaceous rocks, seem to characterise the formation we describe as primitive.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Ostriches and emus are primitive birds that have more in common with dinosaurs than more advanced birds like robins, Schweitzer said.
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Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms.
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Primitive Pythagorean triangles are a bit like prime numbers in that every integer is either prime or a multiple of a prime.
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And a sharp, almost primitive need to call hin back again.
The Tycoon's Mistress
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How do the peoples of the given area divide themselves as cultural beings? what are the outstanding cultural areas and what are the dominant ideas in each (e.g., the Mohammedan north of Africa; the primitive hunting, non-agricultural culture of the Bushmen in the south; the culture of the Australian natives, poor in physical respects but richly developed in ceremonialism; the more advanced and highly specialized culture of Polynesia)?
Chapter 10. Language, Race and Culture
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Art historically, they imaginatively summarize his stylistic dalliances with Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism and the period's interest in ‘primitive’ art.
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The village was a place of stereotypes brought to life, where the word primitive bubbled to the lips.
Spellbound
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While coming home from fishing one night, the narrator was suddenly overwhelmed by a sense of rank, primitive animality, a feeling of wildness.
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Thus, relative to the primitive therian condition, marsupials have a distinctive, derived pattern of reduced dental replacement.
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If large body lengths are primitive for jawed fishes, which is also true for many placoderms, then a marked reduction in body size may have occurred with the origin of ray-finned fishes.
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At this moment primitive sexual gland former base excretive spermary ketone is right become divided of male reproduction organ forms a move decisive action.
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His work at this time was vaguely Surrealist, with forms resembling primitive hieroglyphs painted in a heavy impasto.
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Amphioxus is a primitive chordate, more primitive than lampreys, that clot their haemolymph.
The Panda's Thumb: Ian Musgrave Archives
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They are addressed to a nomadic tribe whose main economy is primitive agriculture and whose wealth is sometimes counted in people as well as animals.
Religion
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These characteristics of B. bahloi are expected to be found in the ancestor of B. attenuatus, since they represent a more primitive evolutionary stage.
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Because of the harsh cold weather, the once theorized Bering Strait that was thought to have frozen over to allow the primitives to cross to North America, was now again solidly frozen.
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They are referenced in this faux-primitive romp fashioned for nine dancers in briefs or skimpy bathing suits.
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A filternetwork provides a canvas on which icons representing synthesis primitives are patched together to create a processing or synthesis chain.
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Called shechita in Jewish kosher laws and zabiha in Islam's halal rules, these slaughter practices were developed in a primitive desert world where human survival should have been the only concern.
Kamran Pasha: Was Jesus a Vegetarian?
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Sometimes primitive or exotic art is not far away across oceans, but within our own nation.
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I was still half-asleep, but some primitive sense of self-preservation told me to get off the balcony.
Day of Honey
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Their analysis also indicated, however, that the two snakes were not primitive ancestors, but advanced snakes similar to modern boas and pythons.
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Both have, however, one common ground on which they become indistinguishable, -- that region of the supernatural which is most primitive and most vague; and the closest relation between the savage and the civilized fancy may be found in the fears which we call childish, -- of darkness, shadows, and things dreamed.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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The bichir and other primitive freshwater fish have a pouch opening from the gut to enable them to breathe air.
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Smell, our seemingly most primitive sense, is often linked to spiritual or esoteric ideas.
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This little animal, Sinosauropteryx, is a fairly primitive coelurosaur, so you would not expect to see feathers on it.
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In Scotland, the bannock was pre-eminently made with barley (or bere meal, bere being a primitive form of barley that does better in acid soils); in England, more often of oats.
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This may be a primitive character-state expression for the family (choripetaly in Azima is presumably less specialized than incipient sympetaly in Salvadora).
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Most 3rd world skilled builders/labourers have the most primitive and basic hand tools only. and arc/tig/mig or oxyacetylene would be beyond their purchasing power.
PREFAB FRIDAY: Container House by Leger Wanaselja | Inhabitat
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As the most primitive of the Neocephalopoda, they were the ancestors of the Bactridida, which in turn seem to represent the stem group form which all advanced Cephalopoda evolved.
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In a series of articles, beginning in 1934, Péter developed various deep theorems about primitive recursive functions, most of them with an explicit algorithmic content.
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This is not barely affirmed, concerning these primitive Christians, but spoken of them as their high praise and encomium; as being a discovery of the refinedness, excellency, and greatness of their spirits, who could so far lift up themselves above sense and sensible things, as to place their highest and most vigorous love upon an unseen Object.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
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T.A. Chapman has shown (1893) that the completely obtect pupa characterises the more highly developed families of Lepidoptera, while in the more primitive families the pupa is incompletely obtect.
The Life-Story of Insects
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You must be prepared to leave the comfort of your home for a more primitive place in the country many miles away at which you will live and work for two months.
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Seeds of diploid wheats and primitive tetraploid wheats (ssp. dicoccum) were obtained from Dr CI Kling (State Plant Breeding Institute, University Hohenheim, Stuttgart).
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Clients typically call their divorce lawyers when they are locked in the grip of primitive emotion.
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Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honorable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts! Mehmet Murat ildan
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The primitive but often inspired toons remind us that hip-hop has enjoyed a stronger visual identity than other genres.
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It seems impossible to avoid the conclusion that the active, armoured campodeiform grub differing less from its parent than an eruciform larva differs from its parent, is as a larval type more primitive than the caterpillar or maggot.
The Life-Story of Insects
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Exodermis with Casparian bands was found in roots of hydrophytic, mesophytic and xerophytic species and in members of primitive as well as advanced families.
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As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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While most of the Culture lives in this peaceable way, some spend their life fighting amongst more primitive civilizations.
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I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals.
Chapter 29
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In ways the hee-hee council was an adumbration of the councils of primitive man, and of the great national assemblies and international conventions of latter-day man.
CHAPTER XIV
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It was a radical group of artists and poets who were interested in folk and primitive art as well as in spontaneous expression.
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That's part of the charm of the record, this very primitiveness of instrumentation and melody - as though we are looking in on something that isn't quite ready to be shown to the public yet, or was never even intended for it.
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Let's begin pondering briefly a primitive barter economy where goods are traded for goods.
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It's a primitive, benighted method of ordering life that is based mostly on coercion and the world would be much better off if all its forms were banned forever.
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Of that golden age, Cotton Mather himself, "smitten with a just fear of encroaching and ill-bodied degeneracies," sat down to write the history, recording in the _Magnalia_ "the great things done for us by our God," in the hope that he might thereby do something "to prevent the loss of the primitive principles and the primitive practices.
Beginnings of the American People
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While individual signals were often used for handshaking and signaling special events on Parallel ATA and SCSI, on the new serial busses it is the ‘primitives’ that perform the handshaking and event signaling.
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Ultimately, it also proves the primitively atavistic nature of human beings: that altruism is an unnatural societal construct and that self-interest is the natural impulse of the human animal.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Inside Job
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primitive mammals
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Plants had been growing on dry land for at least 75 million years, but they were little more than mosses and liverworts growing on damp ground, along with some primitive vascular plants with stems a few inches high.
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However, their vertebral structure appears to have retained the primitive undulatory movement of the axial column.
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By the start of the 1930s, the old primitive concept of statism, dominant throughout the monarchist age in Europe, began to reemerge.
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During the 1970s and 80s emphasis in basal whale research began to shift from Africa to Asia, at first because Sahni & Mishra (1972) described primitive whale remains discovered in India, and later as West (1980) figured and identified lower jaw specimens from Pakistan.
Archive 2006-02-01
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It had a pagan, primitive look, like some kind of armlet or anklet, yet it was too big for an arm or an ankle.
COMPULSION
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Taylor endured primitive living conditions and long marches between an endless series of makeshift camps.
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This is not a primitive Walkman but a pseudophone, clamped like a nutcracker on the skull of its inventor, psychologist Paul T. Young, Ph.D.
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Gjuve basalts are generally more primitive and have a greater range of major element compositions than the Morgedal basalts.
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Dealers in primitive, tribal, Oriental art, classical antiquities, and objetsd'art are excluded.
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I believe that certain aspects of other cultures are primitive and uncivilized.
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Economists generally take for granted, if only tacitly, a teleological view of money's historical development, according to which it first takes the "primitive" form of mundane commodities such as cowrie shells and cacao seeds, and then advances through various stages, culminating in the national fiat monies most economies rely upon today. offers a spirited rebuttal to this naively "whiggish" perspective.
EconLog
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Members of the audience actually gasped when Hayek referred to Socialism as 'atavistic' - the reversion to an older, more primitive form.
Socialism as Primitivism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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And now he possessed her utterly , primitively - as a hunter does his quarry, a tiger his kill.
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He rejects empiricism, reason and logic for a primitive bloodlust that can only be described as barbaric.
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For instance, many other Americans fail to realize that Puerto Ricans are natural-born American citizens or wrongly view their native island as a primitive tropical land of grass huts and grass skirts.
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On it had been painted a picture of a naked woman, in a primitive style.
THE EXECUTION
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During this stage, proteins were not yet engaged in biochemical reactions and RNA carried out both the information storage task of genetic information and the full range of catalytic roles necessary in a very primitive self-replicating system.
The RNA World
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Her entire face stood out prominently, almost prognathously, an atavism that hinted of something deeply primitive in her.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The "Leda" of Leonardo, repainted from motives of prudery by the great-grandfather of Louis-Philippe, was bought at the sale of that ex-king's pictures in Paris, in 1849, for thirty dollars, restored to its primitive condition, and sold, we are informed, for one hundred thousand francs.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
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The walls were dark paneling, the ceiling had a very old, or primitive, or both, large fluorescent light hanging from the white ceiling.
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Especially Africa, because I think conquest and advertisement and television and religion has succeeded in manipulating the international African people into a pool of consumership and cheap labour, and in the process has divorced us from admiration of our heritage and relegated our heritage to being primitive and backward and pagan and barbaric; and we've come to believe as a society that fallacy.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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Named in 1884, this shark is a living representative of a primitive shark order, Hexanchiformes.
Archive 2007-01-01
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And as Evelyn Van Wyck fled through the sombre forest aisles before the too arduous advances of her slant-browed, skin-clad wooer, the door of the cabin opened, without the courtesy of a knock, and a skin-clad woman, savage and primitive, came in.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR
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The bichir and other primitive freshwater fish have a pouch opening from the gut to enable them to breathe air.
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Young Dick learned death — not the ordered, decent death of civilization, wherein doctors and nurses and hypodermics ease the stricken one into the darkness, and ceremony and function and flowers and undertaking institutions conspire to give a happy leave-taking and send-off to the departing shade, but sudden death, primitive death, ugly and ungarnished, like the death of a steer in the shambles or a fat swine stuck in the jugular.
CHAPTER V
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Apparently through all traditional time their cultus has been the rudest and most primitive form of nature-worship, the attaching of
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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But there can be no complex concepts without simple concepts, and it is to these latter primitive representational structures that the thesis of this paper is meant to apply.
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Primitive races colonized these islands 2,000 years ago.
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Although a primitive recording programme was in progress, the company evidently had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for material.
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Amongst orchids, where the pedicel of the flower or the ovary is normally twisted, so that the labellum occupies the anterior or inferior part of the flower, it frequently happens, in cases of peloria and other changes, that the primitive position is retained, the twist does not take place, and so with other resupinate flowers.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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That suit of schist contans a large number of abundant aluminium mineral: staurolite, almandine and biotite, so the primitive is mostly clayrock.
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In this picture, justification operates on two levels: a basic level, at which we grasp primitive truths, and a reflective level that reinforces and stabilizes knowledge gained in the first way.
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Beth McMullian will lead participants in a hands on electronics workshop where participants will built a primitive lie detector known as the galvanic skin response meter.
Bettina Korek: PLAN ForYourArt: August 18-24
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In Paris Cafe society we may be viewed as petty tyrants but, say what you will, at least we are not like them, the primitive Yiddish schnorrers in black robes and fur hats.
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The native of that region still live in primitive straw huts.
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Eggs have been used as a binding medium for pigment paint since primitive times.
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Those writings are largely based upon Freud's assertion that firesetting in youth is a regressive retreat to ‘primitive man's’ desire to gain power and control over nature.
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However, he was not at first as interested in the Fine Arts of painting and drawing as he was with the exotic primitive arts that were being collected from South Sea Islands at that time.
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In England, for example, Primitive Methodists were mainly working class, Congregationalists were a cut above Baptists, while Unitarians and Quakers were predominantly the families of professional men and businessmen.
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Diagram of the four secondary germinal layers, transverse section through the metazoic embryo: Figure 1.74 of an annelid, Figure 1.75 of a vermalian. a primitive gut, dd ventral glandular layer, df ventral fibre-layer, hm skin-fibre-layer, hs skin-sense-layer, u beginning of the rudimentary kidneys, n beginning of the nerve-plates.)
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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a psalm from the dear old Scottish paraphrase, with its primitive inversion of the simple perfect Bible words; and a kind of precentor stood up, and, having sounded the note on a pitch-pipe, sang a couple of lines by way of indicating the tune; then all the congregation stood up, and sang aloud, Mr Bradshaw's great bass voice being half
Ruth
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The most primitive ruanas are made from undyed wool in shades of brown.
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The food was poor, services primitive and the crossing rough.
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For instance, bauxite or uranium have no value in a primitive society where they cannot be utilised, but in an economy that produces aluminium or harnesses atomic power they become valuable resources.
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The cells were surrounded by a basal lamina and joined by primitive junctions.
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Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honorable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts! Mehmet Murat ildan
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Individually, he would much prefer to have been one of his own "Seven Vagabonds" rather than one of the austerest preachers of the primitive church of New England; but the austerest preacher of the primitive church of New England would have been more tender and considerate to a real Mr. Dimmesdale and a real
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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To refine on the primitive experiment let us replace the shreds by a pithball hung from a support by a silk thread, as in figure 2.
The Story of Electricity
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Thought to be Anglo-Saxon, this could have been a primitive pottery kiln or a malting oven, used in beer making.
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The ancestral amniotes were small animals, superficially resembling primitive, insectivorous lizards.
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Organs, fluids, eggs, scrotal sacs all might come to mind; the secret life of the body and our most primitive biological heritage swarm this nest of coeval somethings.
Louise Bourgeois: 10 essential artworks
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Even as the artworks probe the limits of our most primitive ethnocentric biases, they affirm our place on the planet as the dominant species - having the power to discriminate over other life forms.
Spread ArtCulture: Patricia Piccinini's World of Creatures Great & Small
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We are ignorant of the extent of the cavities which subterranean fires and volcanic agitations may have produced in the bowels of the earth in those primitive rocks, which, containing considerable quantities of amphibole, mica, garnet, magnetic iron-stone, and red schorl (titanite), appear to be anterior to granite.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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The fictile vessels are all of a very primitive nature, being entirely moulded by hand, and showing no trace of the use of the potter's wheel.
Stonehenge Today and Yesterday
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Conditions were primitive and patients arrived suffering from malaria, crocodile or snake bites, or burns from open cooking fires.
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In defense of our approach, I would say only that ours can include the modern primitives, and also include Zen, Sufism, The Troubadours, western anarchism, cyberpunk, punk rock, cubism, Voltaire, ad infinitum.
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As an illustration of the primitive condition of the steel pen trade then, it may be mentioned that at this period the pens were "blued" and varnished in
Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men
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Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering.
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Endemism is particularly high in 33 angiosperm and six gymnosperm, and fern families, most of which are ancient or primitive with restricted relict distributions.
Queensland tropical rain forests
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Ricoeur argues that this primitive desire for order, at least in its more developed forms, takes precedence over the desire for retribution.
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incomplete metamorphosis" of the Orthoptera is the primitive one,
Facts and Arguments for Darwin
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Aside from the primitive roads and the occasional seismometer or tiltmeter, there is no sign of human habitation.
Archive 2006-10-01
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That type of mentality called animism which anthropologists designate as the essence of primitive man characterizes the Mother's mind.
The Mother is a seer
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By contrast, the specimens are primitive relative to homologous teeth of typical palaeoryctids in having a more lingual molar paraconid that is less appressed to the metaconid, and a shorter molar trigonid relative to the talonid.
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Although the small shop houses a grinder-buffer, drill, bench sander and electric saw, most of the tools are primitive looking hammers, mallets and anvils.
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That colinearity seems to be a consequence of a primitive pattern of regulation that coupled the timing of development to the spatial arrangements of the tissues, and many organisms have evolved more sophisticated control of these patterning genes, making the old regulators obsolete…and allowing the clusters to break up without extreme consequences to the animal.
Hox complexity - The Panda's Thumb
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The direction and inclination of the stratum remain the same, and the thonschiefer, which takes the look of a transition-rock, is but a modification of the primitive mica-slate of Maniquarez, containing garnets, cyanite, and rutile titanite.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America