primitively

Example Sentences

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“Margaux” is as familiar, junky and primitively satisfying as a can of Pringles.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

Not only was she primitively engaging with staging and character development, but she forged her directing instincts by recruiting neighbors and her two younger siblings to perform in her “films.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2022

Back then, my critical faculties were barely developed, and I hadn’t yet learned to distrust that which primitively pleased me.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2019

I try to work out whether his media charm offensive is motivated by selfless patriotic duty, or opportunistic self-interest, but the answer turns out to be more primitively powerful than either: his pride.

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2018

It was the most fiercely, primitively sincere room that I have ever seen, and king or peasant therefore would have felt equally at home in it.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell