Sentence examples for primitive people from inspiring English sources

"Primitive people were disappearing.

But primitive people know how to look after themselves.

Primitive people do not pounce upon their visitors.

Charles Darwin lamented the inability of "primitive" people like the Fuegians to rise to our level.

"These were very primitive people — ministers of metallurgy and the like, absolutely Homo sovieticus.

The husband, John, thinks of the locals as "primitive" people, living "by instinct and appetite".

After all, this is music that depicts the dances and rituals of a primitive people in homage to spring.

But in jokes that appeal to children and primitive people, cruelty and boastful self-assertiveness are much in evidence.

Francine Prose, in "Primitive People," and Madison Smartt Bell, somewhat, in "All Souls' Rising," and E. L. Doctorow, in "Ragtime," are others who succeed.

A lot about this premise is oddly reminiscent of Ms. Prose's 1992 novel "Primitive People," in which a Haitian woman gets an au pair job with a family in a bucolic Hudson Valley town.

He combined this with sharp appetite to know the variety and surprise of what exotic not primitive people did.