Sentence examples for a more primeval from inspiring English sources

The great beasts serve as screens for the projection of ideological fantasies about a more primeval America, where competition ran unchecked and might was all that mattered.

I would suggest walking at the end of the day, towards twilight, when our perception is sharp and we seem to have a more primeval outlook.

Or were we talking about a more primeval Golden State, John Steinbeck's prelapsarian Salinas Valley from East of Eden, or the 60s netherworld of Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem or luridly fictionalized in Play It as It Lays?

Neighbouring Poland views Lithuania the way the English view Scotland, as wild and untamed, with "more primeval forests and a valiant but not-too-civilized people".

In fact, it's not Earth at all, but a parallel world that's darker and more primeval, with lush forests, treacherous jungles and Cubist-inspired architecture.

This is a story line that goes beyond sports and appeals to something more primeval: Can the legendary but battle-scarred warrior king, whom fate has risen up and struck down, return to the battlefield in triumph?

Dr. Sacks can be even more primeval, turning the clock back as far as it will go.

As Andy Roddick finally began to tire in the match that refused to end, Federer turned beyond pure natural talent to something more primeval: the refusal to yield, the compulsion to prevail that allows those with a special knack for playing sport to go on and become champions.

The new works at the Hammer feel even more primeval: geological accretions of paper and paint webbed with lines and singed circles that, in works such as "Test 3," almost take on the feel of bullet holes.

In Grazing Ecology and Forest History F.W.M. Vera published his hypothesis that Europe's primeval vegetation was not closed forest but a more open, park-like landscape maintained by the grazing of large herbivores.

The Atlantic has a more pure ocean smell; it's more intensely moist and salty, almost primeval.