Sentence examples for primal drive from inspiring English sources
But the chief reason for the primal drive to build forts?
They occupy a peculiar niche in a city full of peculiar niches, where the primal drive to obtain living space can force the marriage of tenant and trattoria.
When you presume to constrict, divert, disguise, and otherwise finesse a primal drive, you give it the run of your imagination.
The curators posit drawing less as a medium than as a primal drive, heedless of artistic categories; special reference is made to dance.
An important factor contributing to the Western world's obesity epidemic is that our primal drive to eat is at odds with the modern abundance of high-calorie foods.
Their point is that white people are melting away like the icecaps, and they have a primal drive to stop it.
He regularly proclaimed his allegiance to primal drives as the only credible substitute for meaning in a hostile universe.
Those primal drives had not gone away; they were simply being channeled in more modern times into an intense state-centered patriotism and xenophobia.
On the basis of this character alone, the movie, whimsical yet profound, with a stirringly idealistic vision of a liberal culture that honors the primal drives of human nature, would be immortal.
But these primal drives take on an eerie, entrancing strangeness in the gutsy revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms" that opened Monday night at the St. James Theater.
The exorcising of such baleful spirits seems to have been one of the primal drives underlying the production of the 800-odd stories Chekhov left behind: happiness, in his work, almost always occurs against an encroaching darkness that requires constant warding off.
