Sentence examples for primitive act from inspiring English sources

We keep these things as a primitive act of love, I suppose: the milk teeth, the pregnancy tests, a lopped-off curl from a first haircut.

Armstrong has called Simeoni a liar, but his most primitive act against his critic might have been ill-advised since it called attention to his anger about charges of doping in the cycling culture.

It springs from the primitive act of theatre - an actor and an audience - fuelled by an all-consuming, raging need on both parts of the equation, which is why a theatre that doesn't have a company at its centre will always, by one means or another, end up cerebral, and that spells death for it.

No Reservations Eating with someone is a private, primitive act of trust building that dates back to the caveman.

And the fastest, most efficient, most powerful action, said Kruglanski, is "the most primitive, primordial act a human being [can take] -- showing one's power over other human beings". The ideologies of the Islamic State -- to which Mateen declared allegiance in a 911 call from within the nightclub -- appear to have served his need.

Denying the existence of an object is thereby taken to be a primitive mental act, parallel to the affirmation of its existence.

Soames needs a number of primitive mental acts beyond predication.

The circuits are meant to be just one aspect of a cryptographic system, a so-called "primitive" that acts as the basis for further encryption.

Other more complex propositions are identified with events types of agents performing sequences of primitive mental acts.[20] Soames doesn't say what he takes events (types or tokens) to be.

This suggests primitive cells acted as containers of the emerging protein domains already during this first evolutionary phase.

It is important to note that Mencian beginnings of morality are not just blind feelings or primitive urges to act in certain ways, but contain within them certain intuitive judgments about what is right and wrong, what is to be disdained and what is deferential, respectful behavior.