Sentence examples for primitive trip from inspiring English sources

It was a primitive trip with a sophisticated goal: to understand how heavy use of digital devices and other technology changes how we think and behave, and how a retreat into nature might reverse those effects.

BEFORE the advent of affordable helicopter rides, a backcountry ski trip was primitive.

In 1903 Isadora temporarily abandoned her career so that the Duncans could fulfill their dream of setting foot in Greece, which -- in order to make the trip "as primitive as possible" -- they approached in a little sailing boat, at dawn.

Details denote an unflattering portrait: his sport of "slumming" in places like Manhattan's Tenderloin district — as a precursor to Norman Mailer's "white Negroes" — and his passion for "primitive" women, ogled on trips to Tahiti and Hawaii.

Most of the wrecked boats look too primitive even for a short fishing trip, much less a days-long voyage to Europe with hundreds of people crammed above and below deck.

Before the CGI revolution, Georges Méliès used miniatures to create the primitive visual effects in his groundbreaking Trip to the Moon.

In the late 1930's, 32 men were rescued from a primitive American sub, the Squalus, in four trips with a diving bell in 240 feet of water.

And like Michael Rockefeller he vanishes during a trip to New Guinea to collect some primitive artifacts and becomes the subject of an intensive and ultimately futile search.

Dr. Palmer, who specializes in waterway restoration, described the barriers that she and other scientists faced in trying to question North Korean scientists, and field trips on which she witnessed relatively primitive agricultural practices.

This trip awakened an affinity with so-called primitive styles, which enter his art in myriad ways.

On our first trip, 15 years ago, conditions had been primitive, and the food supply seemed to consist mostly of carrots and eggs.