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primitive culture
noun as in barbarism
Example Sentences
In the Trocadéro, they were presented as ageless, unchanging, primitive objects, evidence of an ageless, unchanging, primitive culture.
Fitriyah said she was appalled that Jake became a Na’vi in that film, playing into what she called a colonialist trope that a foreigner can easily “go Native” by looking the part and learning what’s implied to be a primitive culture.
Many of them believed in a connection between what they saw as primitive culture and the deeper wellsprings of psychological life, a way to reference and represent urges and emotional drives that had been suppressed by “civilization.”
“Euphoria” has a darkness and tension to its plot as its characters explore unconventional sexual roles in a remote, primitive culture.
The “King” to Xue’s “I” is none other than Hillary Rodham Clinton, portrayed, like the 1951 musical’s King Mongkut, as a natural leader trapped in a primitive culture.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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