Sentence examples for primeval man from inspiring English sources

If they don't carry the ball, they're grunting and groaning out there like Primeval Man.

The art historian Erwin Panofsky detected in them no Arcadian nostalgia but the "emotional atavisms" of "a primitive who happened to live in a period of sophisticated civilization," yet seemed "to have re-experienced the emotions of primeval man".

For example, the attraction between man and woman (and the consequent institution of marriage) is explained by the myth that primeval man was one creature, subsequently divided into two parts, male and female, which are attracted to one another to regain their pristine unity.

"Primeval man, or rather some early progenitor of man, probably first used his voice in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing," he wrote.

Moreover "actions are regarded by savages, and were probably so regarded by primeval man, solely as they affect in an obvious manner the welfare of the tribe, not that of the species, nor that of… an individual member" (Darwin 1871, p. 96).

Writing about the development of morality in primeval man, for example, he suspects that, "it is hardly possible to exaggerate the importance during rude times of the love of praise and the dread of blame" (p. 157).

Among the popular ideas now in circulation about how our primeval cave-man brain influences modern behavior is the theory that when we go shopping, women "forage" and men "hunt".

This was a mysterious wanderer, a modern Odysseus journeying who knew where; or perhaps a Jungian archetype, ranging the primeval savannah as man had done for most of the past 10,000 years.

Moschophoros captured the primeval ease between man and calf.

Is it a means of reconnecting with our primeval past, when men hunted to survive?

Perhaps there is a deep craving in man for the primeval ooze from which he emerged.