Sentence examples for primitive motivation from inspiring English sources

Like Tolkien's Sauron, willing to slaughter however many it takes to gain power of the ring, Martin's fantasy series is fueled by a primitive motivation: killing something to get something.

Though one might take this predicate as primitive, a desire for ideological economy would provide some motivation for treating it as defined.

A substantial literature has grown up around the programme of giving some independent motivation for this structure ideally, by deriving it from more primitive and plausible axioms governing a generalized probability theory.

In its primitive form moral judgment might have functioned simply to motivate conformity to norms learned in early socialization, accounting for the apparent direct association of moral judgments with motivation.

In most cases, the motivation of these groups is clearly religious, backed up by the most primitive sorts of anti-evolution arguments.

As Wright notes: "Their motivations varied, but they had in common a belief that Islam — pure and primitive, unmitigated by modernity and uncompromised by politics — would cure the wounds that socialism or Arab nationalism had failed to heal.

So primitive!

Very primitive.

"Treatment" is equally primitive.

"Primitive people were disappearing.

That we are primitive.