Sentence examples for primitive islanders from inspiring English sources

Primitive islanders had to be able to explain the vagaries of weather and other natural life cycles without the benefit of science; Traill Dennison hypothesises that this is why "the imagination of some half savage" may have formed the foundations of the myth.

As the process of distillation evolved in the skilled hands of Scottish Highlanders and islanders, the primitive spirits, though still potent, gradually became more palatable as the centuries passed.

There's also a primitive painting of Saint Columba by the Tory islander Patsy Rodgers.

"Further than the Furthest Thing," as it's called, involves islanders based on those who were forced by a volcano to abandon their primitive life on Tristan da Cunha in the 1960's and find sanctuary in England.

When a volcano erupts, as it did in Tristan da Cunha in 1961, the islanders are evacuated to England where they're forced to shift from a primitive subsistence economy to industrial capitalism virtually overnight.

The juxtaposition of half-naked islanders with nuclear weapons that had the power to reduce everyone to a primitive state provided some with an inspirational motif.

The islanders have long since given up their cramped stone dwellings and turned to tourism and primitive painting.

The islanders move inland.

So primitive!

Very primitive.

The islanders' notion is different.