primal

It’s the primal wanting and need of drama, I feel like, as humans.

He is of primal, protean, raw voice on the Harlem Square Club version of “Chain Gang,” but we experience that idea again of someone writing to reach us.

For all of our 21st-century trappings, our human paths align across the millennia, and we all carry the primal memories of skin contact with the earth and each other.

We ditch the pretense of our urban lives and become some sort of primal survivor.

Sitwell’s intense reaction to the fictional retelling of his primal loss reminds readers that history belongs to those who control its narrative, and that fiction can be as powerful, and in some cases even more influential, than fact.

And to this day, liberals in the political world use the name “Willie Horton” to describe an appeal to primal racial fears.

Levine broods in the meat locker, mad with desire for Prinsloo, whose appetite for him is equally primal.

I wanted to fill her with pain and primal rage, which was really fun for me.

Because primal violence is justified by religious belief, “the offenders have no remorse, no fear, and are extremely confident.”

The “exotic” foreign civilization is somehow more natural, more primal, more sensual, the way people really ought to live.

The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.

The primal rigidity of the straight line yields later on to the freedom of an organ.

From that day to this, man has been occupied in unfolding this method, and has advanced enormously beyond his primal state.

Anaximenes, seeing that animals die without air, thought that air was the great primal cause.

Whatever you said to him sank without splash into this almost primal calm and was lost to your view forever.