Sentence examples for primitive appeal from inspiring English sources

Yet its primitive appeal is also its weakness.

Houcke's circus routine doesn't involve nudity, but is not without its own primitive appeal.

The violence is still cruel and primitive — the primitive appeal must be acknowledged — but it produces a special catharsis.

Like the blind-beggar-for-luck, "Kane" has a primitive appeal that is implicit in the conception.

But she made art, too, and her untitled color lithograph from 1978, filled with roughly drawn circles, has primitive appeal.

I took it for [expletive] granted!" Ken Norton Jr. made a primitive appeal to the masculinity of the young Trojans.

So Nesuhi's style today can be understood if one understands the cosmopolitan aspirations of the class of educated Turks from which his family derived, and if one understands as well the appeal that "primitive" black music had for many cultivated Europeans during the twenties and thirties.

The appeal of primitive and ancient ritual art to Moore, the element of surprise in children's toys for Calder, and the wellsprings of irrationality from which Arp and Giacometti drank were for these men the means by which wonder and the marvelous could be restored to sculpture.

Combinatorialists argue that such modal facts can nevertheless be explained in terms that require no appeal to primitive modal features of the world (Armstrong 2004b, 15).

He coined the term "supernormal stimuli" to describe these imitations that appeal to primitive instincts and, oddly, exert a stronger attraction than real things.

This interplay appeals to primitive, atavistic emotions that, in themselves, transcend cultural differences.