Sentence examples for primitive response from inspiring English sources

"Every loss of a breast inevitably reawakens this primitive response, reviving earlier dramas of self-abasement, sacrifice and submission to punishment...

In the short term, following a currency wobble over the summer, the government has resorted to a more primitive response, hiking taxes and imposing quotas on gold imports.

The instinct and even enthusiasm for gardening thus appear to arise from some primitive response to nature, engendering a wish to produce growth and harmony in a creative partnership with it.

In this case, the primitive response is combined with the circumstances that Welles' name had been heavily featured for years, that the role was a new creation, that the movie audience's image of Welles was set by this overpowering role, in which they saw him for the first time, and that not only was the role partly based on him but he began to live up to it.

Blame is a primitive response.

It's the sucking reflex combined with another primitive response, the rooting reflex, that allows infants to breastfeed.

An exhaustive and addictively readable history of the ironclad automaton and a meditation on the armored machine's power to stoke our most primitive responses.

Perceiving others as "others" causes fear, anger or disgust, universal "primitive" responses to threats whose physiological mechanisms are relatively well understood.

This thick and addictively readable book is a searching meditation on the tank's strange power to stoke our most primitive responses, wrapped around enough historical, technological and tactical bulk to sate a military scholar.

Even our most primitive responses to challenge or conflict, the urge to fight or flight, are rooted in a desire for control.

The paradox of the human experience is that we are built for rapid and sudden adaptation, but we want everything perfectly organized and in its place, and we want it to all stay that way or else! Just because we are created to go with the mutable flow does not make us immune to primitive responses such as rigidity, fearfulness, inflexibility and unreasonable stubbornness.