Sentence examples for primitive beings from inspiring English sources

This melancholy vision of tragic refinement — of exquisite, enervated aliens overcome by the vigor of more primitive beings — seems very French but not very Darwinian.

This melancholy vision of tragic refinement of exquisite, enervated aliens overcome by the vigor of more primitive beings—seems very French but not very Darwinian.

They were accorded no cultural achievements remotely commensurate with those of the west; they were considered primitive beings in need of tutelage.

We are like primitive beings — or fools — dwelling in a futuristic age of technological ease, where movies and pictures can now be created and exchanged so effortlessly.

A Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization study suggests economics helped do in Neanderthals, the primitive beings who suddenly went extinct after 200,000 years.

Popularly, it is assumed to represent an upward journey of life from the most primitive beings at the bottom to the most advanced at the top man at the summit of all life even though, to Haeckel, it was a direct chain of human ancestors.

Maybe the pure challenge for most fellrunners is the seemingly herculean feat of man (or woman) versus nature: a return perhaps to our primitive being?

"My failure to evolve has been causing me a lot of grief lately," the author writes, imagining himself as a primitive being ill-adapted to glass-strewn streets and swank soirées.

If its ancient watery, organic soils eventually led to the appearance of primitive living beings before catastrophe struck, we can conclude that life could be relatively commonplace in the cosmos, he argues.

With Il vecchio della montagna (1900; "The Old Man of the Mountain") she began to write about the tragic effects of temptation and sin among primitive human beings.

In Part I of the Second Discourse, Rousseau's focus is slightly different and occurs in the context of a polemic against philosophers (such as natural law theorists like Condillac) who attribute to primitive human beings a developed capacity for abstract reasoning.