Sentence examples for primitive traditions from inspiring English sources

The poetic aspect of myths in archaic and primitive traditions is considerable.

A wise move because the comedy resides in their having human nous plus their old primitive traditions.

Mircea Eliade, the historian of religions, wrote that primitive traditions in India, China and among far-flung cultures like the Mayas in Central America and the people of North Asia represented the cosmos as a giant tree.

Given the island's weird medley of modern and primitive traditions, cultures, and scenery, I couldn't think of a better place to escape the tedium of everyday life.

Why does Japan permit this primitive tradition when it also leads the world in such environmental technologies as hybrid cars?

But, in one of the few reviews the anthology received, the critic raved, in syntax tortured on the rack of platitudes, about the range of Muhamed D.'s poetic skills and the courage he had shown by shedding the primitive Bosnian tradition for more modern forms.

Historians of physical science have no difficulty in tracing the continuation of this experimental tradition, primitive and irregular though it was by later standards, throughout the Middle Ages.

Islāmic bath, Arabic Ḥammān, public bathing establishment developed in countries under Islāmic rule that reflects the fusion of a primitive Eastern bath tradition and the elaborate Roman bathing process.

Some bands, however, take pride in clinging to the primitive garage-band tradition pioneered in the '60s by such groups as the Standells, the Seeds and Electric Prunes.

In a shift from historical past to ethnographic present, anthropologists erected 'counterfeit signposts' of a primitive world of enduring traditions, an analytic fiction.

The Titanic is orbiting present day Earth to observe the traditions of primitive cultures, specifically Christmas.