Sentence examples for knowing primitive from inspiring English sources
In his two more languorous paintings, discrete clouds with definite outlines are the mesmerizing feature, and Sisley is something of a knowing primitive.
Despite the toylike feel of his figures, he is too knowing to be a primitive, and for all his seemingly topical references mocking scenes, for example, of military juntas he is too dreamy to be a chronicler and too gentle for a parodist.
Many imagined World War III would be fought using advanced weaponry and nuclear arsenals, not knowing that the most primitive weapon, radicalism, is the most lethal amongst all.
"Mobility is not a car or a train, but really a primitive feeling — a value — of knowing you can move where and when you want.
In fact, it's so fundamental to our survival that it's known as a "primitive reflex"; we're born knowing how to suck and no learning is necessary.
"They had built primitive shelters and they ran to them, not knowing it was poison gas.
Not knowing is worse than knowing.
They find that humans, a primitive species that had known how to use radio signals for barely 200 years, had already saved themselves, launching a fleet of ships into the stars, knowing their journey would take hundreds of years.
There were knowing chuckles.
Others exchange knowing glances.
