Sentence examples for know primitive from inspiring English sources

Giving up comfort, commercial success, and artistic acclaim, he embraced isolation to know primitive idyll and find the core truth missing from his life.

Because of the limbs and characteristics of the skulls, they had been thought to be the oldest known primitive snakes, related to even more primitive marine reptiles known as mosasaurs.

The earliest known primitive shrines appeared in Egypt by the late Predynastic Period, in the late fourth millennium BC.

With the satanic Born still at large, a desperate need to know – that primitive but vital fictional engine – sends the reader scurrying to a conclusion that is more satisfying in terms of its ideas than its emotional resolution.

Philodemus reports that Prodicus believed that "the gods of popular belief do not exist nor do they know, but primitive man, [out of admiration, deified] the fruits of the earth and virtually everything that contributed to his existence".

All of these methods can be formalized in a system known as primitive recursive arithmetic (PRA), which allows definitions of functions by primitive recursion and induction on quantifier-free formulas (ibid).

Wealth accumulation in noncapitalistic societies was often predicated on forced seizure – a process known as "primitive accumulation".

It is known that primitive hominids — human ancestors and their close kin — walked upright across the plains of Africa at this time.

It is well known that primitive plants known as cyanobacteria have a talent for concentrating CO2 within their cells at levels that make photosynthesis more efficient.

Individuals and populations showing transitional morphologies between each of the mammoth species are known, and primitive and derived species coexisted as well until the former disappeared.

Furthermore, up to now, most work on ant stridulations refers only to the subfamily Myrmicinae, and almost nothing is known about primitive ants like the Ponerinae.