Sentence examples for primitive past from inspiring English sources

Back in the primitive past,.

Yet at least this film is located firmly in a more primitive past.

The Cramps reified the band of my dreams: they were irreverent aficionados of rock'n'roll's primitive past, depraved and campy updaters of the raw blues progression.

Tylor noted how customs and beliefs from a distant, primitive past seemed to have lived on into the modern world, and he became well-known for his examination of such "survivals," a concept that he introduced.

As the designer said in his program notes, his ancient heroine represented "either the primitive past or a post-apocalyptic future" — which seemed like an uncomfortable place to be.

By Peter De Vries The New Yorker, July 8 , 1950P. 46 Back in the primitive past, View Article By Larissa MacFarquhar By Rivka Galchen By Lidija Haas By Malcolm Gladwell.

Siena is a beautifully preserved medieval city, famous for its annual horse race as well as the art of Duccio, but the head of St Catherine shockingly transports you to what feels like a dark and primitive living past.

Audiences will be confronted not only with a powerfully Russian style of Wagner singing but also with the audacious sets and costumes of George Tsypin and Tatiana Noginova, which hark back to a primitive Eurasian past quite removed from Wagner's Teutonic roots.

Audiences will be confronted not only with an intensely Russian style of Wagner singing but also with the audacious sets and costumes of George Tsypin and Tatiana Noginova, which hark back to a primitive Eurasian past quite removed from Wagner's Teutonic roots.

This has especially been true in the British theatre since Paul Scofield's granite performance for Peter Brook in 1962, when the play, far from representing some kind of primitive, barbaric past, seemed suddenly, frighteningly, to speak of our own time, godless, loveless, alienated, arbitrary.

But a document in a drawer is likely to be readable long after DVDs become laughable reminders of a primitive digital past.