Sentence examples for a primordial version from inspiring English sources

Here he turns his attention to a primordial version of the institution: the implantation of new social order in the untamed frontier.

Flora Armetta's post at The Book Bench about writers who counsel other writers to be brief and cut as much as possible reminded me of a primordial version of that advice — a practical example that goes beyond Gertrude's exhortation to "more matter, with less art".

Reaching New York penniless, he falls under the spell of an advertising executive (Dawn Addams) who gets him onto a primordial version of reality TV and into a whiskey commercial that's the precursor to Bill Murray's great commercial scene in Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation".

I'm no Talmudist, but it has always seemed to me that the injunction to Lot and his troupe not to look back at the destruction being rained down upon the sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah was a primordial version of pulling the plug on the Internet: the Lord didn't want His people to see the horrors that He, in his wrath, was capable of inflicting.

It's a sort of primordial version of "Ratatouille," about a Parisian mouse who is a world-class connoisseur of cheese — but then I discovered that an animated version of "Anatole" was made in 1960, directed by Gene Deitch.

As a journalist, he had a keen sense of a story—he was fast to pick up on the artistry of Martin Scorsese, that very year, when he saw, at the Chicago Film Festival, the primordial version of "Who's That Knocking At My Door?," and, the following year, on the artistry of Werner Herzog.

But maybe — without even consciously realizing it — he was performing a rock 'n' roll version of a primordial ritual of mourning.

Nevertheless, at least some of these scenarios – and, in my opinion, the more plausible ones – include some version of a primordial pool of mixing and matching genetic elements[ 93, 94].

Simplified versions in other excavates might indicate a primordial complex or secondary loss of selected subunits, as seen for some fungal lineages.

It rouses a primordial sense of wonder.

Harvard researchers are proposing using a "primordial standard clock" as a probe of the primordial universe.