To use a process of "primitive" means is compartively futuristic.
That Stockhausen could achieve such a result with such primitive means (as they now seem), in the face of scepticism, hostility and incomprehension is a tribute to his strength of character and his unwavering vision.
That Stockhausen could achieve such a result with such primitive means (as they now seem), in the face of scepticism from his professional elders, and constant hostility and incomprehension from audiences, is a tribute to his strength of character and his unwavering visionary purpose.
Smoke signals, torch signaling, heliographs (flashing mirrors), and signal flags are but a few of those primitive means of communicating over distance.
Lithuania is a land of magicians and primitive means.
I think Burroughs got a kick out of that and the demonstration of how easy it was, even with primitive means, to create a televised witch's brew of, say, Nixon's face superimposed on Mao's, speaking with the voice of Hitler or Stalin, or even FDR.
It's his job to keep the city viable, and since no one has yet come up with a smart-watch-like breakthrough, he's been forced to rely on more primitive means, like pumps and asphalt.
But other scholars reported positive results with much more primitive means.
"The banking system is so well patrolled they're resorting to more primitive means".
It's probably unwise to attempt to define punk any more rigorously than that: to contort yourself in the effort to account for its ungodly mixture of world-annihilating rage and boundless joy, or its ability, at its best, to use primitive means to reach complex, sophisticated ends.
In their determined exploration of the world before them, they must have overcome, with the primitive means at their disposal, the extreme rigors of climate, terrain and perhaps the archaic human populations like the fearsome Neanderthals who had preceded them out of Africa.
