primal
Example Sentences
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Wrestling strips life’s complications down to primal conflicts, and few wrestlers embodied this approach as famously, and forebodingly, as Hulk Hogan.
But there’s a primal quality to the play’s conflicts that endows the work with an eternal vitality in the theater.
From Los Angeles Times
“There’s a base, kind of primal feeling to it, and I think that’s what people like about it. It’s down to business, you know? Especially in the arena, there’s no political stuff. It’s right there.”
From Salon
The plotting doesn’t have any subterranean levels either, trusting solely in its primal display of sweat, hormones and heartbreak.
From Los Angeles Times
In 1961, a small child looks with fear into the eyes of a costumed Santa in New York City, a primal reaction that transcends decades.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
