Sentence examples for primal illness from inspiring English sources
Throughout the eighteen-thirties, the give-and-take between Carlyle's deeply pessimistic sense of the primal violence that lay beneath the surface of civilization and Mill's insistence that the cure for the primal illness was more civilization was one of the creative engines of English thought.
The album contains no "conceptual underpinnings", instead focusing on themes that are personal and intimate to Stevens himself; the label Asthmatic Kitty describes the themes as "personal and primal … love, sex, death, disease, illness, anxiety, and suicide".
This reading is only strengthened by the fact that in one of his earliest pictures, the diabolical Shivers (1975), Cronenberg addressed the fear of sexually transmitted illnesses, showing how the primal fervor of desire and disease upends the sterile and bourgeois enclave of a ritzy apartment complex.
Certainly they represented an extreme life, a conjunction of primal need, pleasure and intense fears of illness and death.
