But another way of seeing this is that, while the old values enshrined in the art gallery no longer apply, there is a more atavistic sense in which Tate Modern is true to its origins.
There is a far more atavistic element playing out in this war as well.
President Chávez is not part of that movement, but instead recalls a more atavistic political tradition.
If you're using certain Android Samsung phones your email icon is even more atavistic - an envelope with a red wax seal.
Rosenthal's utter dislike of Bradlee was more atavistic.
58008_35007 agrees with my proposition that it might be an atavistic thing, harking back to a gorilla love of grooming.
El Kana, the jealous god who accepts nothing but total submission to his will, for most Jewish liberals is an atavistic, inhuman idea, more akin to a cruel, wanton king insistent on total obedience than a benevolent god, and they recoil from Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son just to demonstrate total submission.
Similarly, in a time when most 20-year-olds are driving small, zippy cars like the Ford Focus or the Acura Integra, like a vegetarian secretly hungering after a cheeseburger, there is an almost atavistic desire lurking just below the surface for something more brutal.
It's a kind of atavistic response to the dark; we like to light a fire.
What they cannot agree on — and what will ultimately tear apart at least one of the relationships in the play — is who they really are and what they stand for, once the veneer of civilized achievement has been scraped away to reveal more atavistic urges.
