Sentence examples for primal terror from inspiring English sources

Before politics, before history and religion, there is the primal terror.

"It's a profoundly affecting tool in evoking primal terror," Dr. Northwood said.

BACK IN THE days of the tyranny of distance, the primal terror of Australians was the fear of abandonment.

"We all experience anxiety, unhappiness, heartbreaks," Mr. Weinstein recalled, "but that was sheer, primal terror".

Concocted out of a sinister blend of primal terror, childhood memory and urban legend, Freddy represented something authentically scary: the unconscious brought to literal, murderous life.

The movie's primal terror, Mr. Scott says, is the idea that "those who are supposed to be protecting us are impostors".

Ms. Winocour deftly evokes primal terrors of captivity and cruelty, and also the erotic fascination that lingers around such fears.

But in evoking a fear of darkness and of shrieking batlike things slicing at you when the lights go out, the movie shrewdly taps into the lurking primal terrors of anyone who ever had to sleep with a night light.

It's visceral, almost primal.

The dream world of "The Science of Sleep" is not haunted by primal sexual terror or constructed for purposes of social criticism, the way Buñuel's landscapes were.

Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" is also the story of an actor who spends lots of time in a car; that actor an alienated one, who never successfully unifies his work and his private life, and for whom performing is mainly a means to a mercenary end faces a primal moral terror and glimmer of enlightenment as he sits for a test of a full-head mask that turns him, under the camera's gaze, into an old man.