Sentence examples for primitive manner from inspiring English sources

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(The definition of cave man: "One who acts in a rough primitive manner, esp. toward women").

The novelty of More's account is that it gives us a society which has evolved from a rough and primitive manner of life to "a perfection of culture and humanity as makes them now superior to almost all other mortals" (CU: 111), but it has done so without developing a system of private ownership and the inevitable legal safeguards that go with it.

The Japanese film critics labeled the film "Anti-Japanese" for portraying the country and its people in a primitive manner.

I had never behaved in a more primitive manner in my life, leaving nothing I could think of untried, grunting with effort like a Wimbledon tennis player with each punch, scrabbling for sensitive places where I might gouge, squeeze, or twist.

As mentioned earlier, cross_match works in a relatively primitive manner despite its ease of use compared with the other two programs.

Although fewer people were involved in refining mercury than extracting cinnabar ore, they were exposed to greater concentrations of mercury vapor as a result of the primitive manner in which the cinnabar smelters were constructed.

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In particular, it was hard to believe that, in modern Britain, cockles are still harvested in so primitive a manner, with creaky old rakes and griddles.

The curators will show how his Tahiti paintings weave their own kind of mythology, sometimes rather sensationally referring to "primitive" Oceanian manners and morals that were, by the 1890s, distant memories or indeed simply fantasy.

Perhaps the young President will reach the conclusion that there is no need for him alone to stand tall in the face of a miserable fate, either at the hands of angry rebels who would give him the treatment they gave Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in an extremely primitive and bloody manner, or before international tribunals that accuse him of committing crimes against humanity.

And he in turn brings back from an expedition to the New Mexico Reservation a young man born and reared in a primitive and pre-Fordian manner.

He is primitive in the way he lusts after power, ignoring ideals and manners and principles".

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