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

The society is post-industrial, but only primitively digital—a lot of dot-matrix printers and monochrome displays.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2018

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

By some direct and primitively human way her benighted mind had reached its determination.

From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Duncan, Norman