Sentence examples for primitive urge from inspiring English sources

If they conceive of a desire for change, it is as a dangerous menace, a primitive urge to turn back the clock, or pie-in-the-sky fantasy all labels they have flung at the Leap Manifesto.

There are also major setbacks in the war that, our nurses conclude, are only reversed by the appearance of Australian troops: "The fact that these were of her tribe and looked unflustered seemed like a curative for the Allied retreat and evoked in Sally and the others a primitive urge for celebration".

It's often nothing more than a primitive urge to impress others.

More, instead of juxtaposing technology and consciousness, science and morality as James Cameron did in Avatar, director Christopher Nolan panders to our primitive urge to resort to fantasy rather than reality when facing the very problems that have put humanity in its current pickle.

"Most writers are good at depicting either intricate social ambiguities or more primitive urges," Jacqueline Carey wrote here last year.

The id was defined in terms of the most primitive urges for gratification in the infant, urges dominated by the desire for pleasure through the release of tension and the cathexis of energy.

Still, I wondered how it would fare on an urban road course punctuated with preposterously steep hills and intermittently horrendous traffic, as well as some less congested stretches of curves and twisties that encourage the right foot to explore its primitive urges.

To learn that "the unconscious is structured like a language" is to see this aspect of the self as radically different from the way it is popularly misrepresented, as a murky soup of dream fragments and primitive urges from which it's possible to fish out the occasional insight, a kind of primordial chaos from which higher consciousness distinguishes itself.

It is important to note that Mencian beginnings of morality are not just blind feelings or primitive urges to act in certain ways, but contain within them certain intuitive judgments about what is right and wrong, what is to be disdained and what is deferential, respectful behavior.

This exerted a tremendous upward, positive pressure on a civilization still trying to escape the ravages of its more primitive urges.

With the melting away of the social order – based almost entirely, it turns out, on the smooth functioning of the machine-like building – a base set of primitive urges rise to the surface, a state of affairs quickly embraced by the more strongly constituted.