"elemental need" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a basic or fundamental need that is essential for survival or well-being. Example: Food and water are elemental needs for human beings.
The persistence of this vision in the face of adversity, he said, suggests that space travel reflects "an elemental need".
Prudent restraint on Mr. Bush's part to avoid another Vietnam -- or phony excuses from bozos who fail to understand the elemental need for humanitarian intervention in any new world order?
But Hoffman's Willy embraced his son with hungry physical intensity, hands open and grasping, as if his miserable existence had found its destiny, which was simply to hold and be held by another person, for no profit or purpose beyond fulfilling an elemental need.
Kapoor started out in his teens with ambitions to be an engineer and this project has more than satisfied any remaining vestiges of those dreams: "I hope," he says, "I always will have a fascination with that archaic, elemental need to feel like an ant in an ant colony.
And when it comes to the most elemental needs — food, light, heat — the students play the largest role in providing them.
In a number of respects e.g., in supplying certain goods, food, and wives each group is dependent on the other for elemental needs.
It must bring its popular ideas and attitudes in line with the elemental needs of the state, to help it regain its monopoly on necessary force.
The oil spill might seem a completely man-made mess, the result of some careless drilling, but the nature of the enterprise — plumbing the ocean's resources, daring the dangers of the deep, risking lives to fill elemental needs — is unthinkable without taking the sea's powers and promise into account.
" 'Soft City' shows how, in the midst of physical decay, a city can flourish by fulfilling an elemental human need, the need to play out fantasies of self," Richard Sennett said here in 1974.
However, the mass-bias contributions by instrumental mass discrimination and laser-induced elemental fractionation need to be determined independently.
