Sentence examples for more atavistic principles from inspiring English sources

When the sound shifts to the darker turbulence of Nyx, a harsher imperative takes hold: Edward Watson, commanding and hieratic, dominates the stage, and his six followers are rougher, fiercer beings, capable of elegance but driven by more atavistic principles of male energy.

But there may be a more atavistic reason.

In the east it dwells on more atavistic grievances: ethnic minorities, old territorial disputes, homosexuals, international financiers and, naturally, Jews.

There is a far more atavistic element playing out in this war as well.

That has helped more atavistic nationalist parties, like the National Front in France and Golden Dawn in Greece.

President Chávez is not part of that movement, but instead recalls a more atavistic political tradition.

The Angels/Outcasts dispute that cost Mal St Clair and Flipper Armstrong their lives is almost certainly just one more atavistic, pointless turf war.

As newspapers get rid of the more atavistic elements in their print editions such as the pages of (inherently out-of-date) share prices they also save on ink and paper.

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.

She did not believe in the state; she believed in the family, believed that it would restrain our more atavistic and anti-social desires, and show us how properly to behave, in private and public.

The voluntary party is the lifeblood and bedrock of democratic politics: starve it, suffocate it, isolate and ignore it, and you might just get rid of the more atavistic irritants; the "turnip Taliban", the "dinosaurs" and the "backwoodsmen".