Sentence examples for primitive fear from inspiring English sources

Hitchcock, as ever, taps a reservoir of primitive fear.

The man who makes you lower your eyes in primitive fear and dread".

"There's a primitive fear, an old, ancient panic when your family unit breaks apart," Apter says.

Yet he can't overcome his "primitive fear of the weapons we are advanced enough to design and produce".

Humans have a primitive fear of difference, often expressed as negative attitudes to outsiders or those who do not look or behave the way we expect.

The colt was nearly liberated of its primitive fear, the dark danger a horse unmanned represented to itself and anyone else around it.

Raising barriers and playing on people's most primitive fears cannot – and must not – be the way forward.

But I've read that this is one of those primitive fears which everybody secretly has; it bears little relation to what actually happens.

But after a "monstrous" wolf is sighted and one of the scientists is torn apart by a wolf pack, primitive fears are awakened.

Now Labor and Liberals, with honourable exceptions, compete to pander to primitive fears about boat people, especially in suburban swing seats.They do not, however, seek to exploit the plight of the main group to have experienced discrimination in Australia: its oldest inhabitants, the aborigines.

Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear, and O'Rourke captures that emotional violence with elegant candor.