Sentence examples for primeval fear from inspiring English sources

If statistics cannot assuage our primeval fear, perhaps knowledge can.

Many people, myself included, have a gnawing primeval fear of becoming hopelessly lost.

"Because of having screwed over African-Americans for hundreds of years, whites have a primeval fear of letting them come to power.

The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.

Partly drawing upon childhood memories of Nantucket, and resisting any urge to Melville-style digressions, he found that he had tapped into a widespread primeval fear of the deep.

For we live in a nation in which there is rising hysteria over paedophilia – and when this fuses with primeval fears over people with disabilities, the results can be lethally explosive.

It may be a fear of the primeval Thames".

With a "smothering darkness," descended perhaps from her own Anglo-Victorian culture's fear of the primeval forest, she conveyed the frailty of human efforts against the power of the woods and the spirits in them (2 ).

Walton Ford's drawings recall a time when explorers roamed uncharted oceans, when rumors of primeval lands and exotic creatures fed our fears and dreams.

Tijana had discovered intolerance, fear of a mortal enemy, the primeval comfort of the tribe.

The fear was rapidly growing within me, demanding an answer to the primeval question: fight or flight?