Sentence examples for a primeval state from inspiring English sources

And though it has involved serious downsides, the prospect of returning to a primeval state strikes most of us as insane.

Essentially, it imagined a primeval state of human association, prior to the invention of property and the laws which protect it, when all could have access to nature's fruits as their needs dictated.

A way out of the paradox is to think of the big bang not as the beginning but as a transition, when space crystallized from a primeval state of spacelessness.

"Re-wilding is not an attempt to return to some primeval state, that by definition is impossible.

Loon's tribe in "Shaman" isn't exactly a preagricultural utopia — they're starving by the end of each winter — but it's still a pretty benign view of man in his primeval state, closer to Rousseau than Hobbes.

And before we wish the world back to its pristine, primeval state, we should keep this Alex Gregory cartoon in mind.

"The goal of the Mannahatta Project," he writes, "has never been to return Manhattan to its primeval state.

"The goal of the Mannahatta Project has never been to return Manhattan to its primeval state," Sanderson writes.

"Whenever brute force prevails over reason, humankind returns to its primeval state, to the era of the garrote, where everything is reduced to force".

But, as England returns to the state of a primeval forest and Moll is abandoned by her two sons and her neighbours, she is sustained by the company of a curiously gallant boy who bears the mythic name of Arthur.

To view its swollen bodily attributes as appealing to a primeval drive to procreativity is simply to state the obvious.