primitively
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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
Picture, as a backdrop, one of those primitively drawn 19th-century mourning paintings with rickety white gravestones and age-worn monuments standing under the faded green canopy of a couple of delicately sketched trees.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2017
The creature feels a sense of personal property in his food and in his sleeping-place, but appears not to extend his conception of individual rights beyond these primitively established limits.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
