Sentence examples for primitive minds from inspiring English sources
Even primitive minds are too complicated for that.
Frequently, they are relegated to children, primitive minds, superstition, parapsychology or psychopathology.
Movies like "The Philadelphia Story" remain terrific because they managed to delay their Code-mandated descent into awfulness until the last possible moment — so we get headstrong Katharine Hepburn pledging to be meek and "yar" in the final reel — but Shirley Temple's movies are full-throated odes to the Code, jerry-built to delight the most primitive minds of 1936.
To your primitive mind, it's as if there are lions and tigers lurking around every corner.
He interested in nineteenth and twentieth century constructions of "the primitive mind" and the nexus of anthropology and the mind sciences more generally.
"The Meaning of Paleolithic Rock Art" dismissed the various, too creative theories of its predecessors, and, with them, any residual nineteenthcentury prejudice or romance about the "primitive" mind.
The pinnacle of human development is the achievement of the ego, which imposes order on the anarchy of a primitive mind buffeted by magical thinking.
Are the nonbelievers right, and is religion at its core an empty undertaking, a misdirection, a vestigial artifact of a primitive mind?
What used to be called, pre-Geraldo, the "primitive mind" was mired in the belief that memorable events are always significant: the comet looms in the sky, and kingdoms must fall; the river floods, and the gods are angry.
The lessons one learns from reading him are timeless and invaluable: because the distinctions between the cognitive processes of the "primitive mind" and its modern "civilized" counterpart may be fewer than we would like to think, it is always worthwhile to look at the familiar as if it were foreign and search for the familiar in what appears to be hopelessly foreign.
Anthropologists say his way of looking at human culture did away with conceptions of indigenous groups as having "savage" or "primitive" minds--as well as the corollary view that Western civilization is uniquely advanced.
