Sentence examples for primordial idea from inspiring English sources

According to Michael Wolff's supercilious yet star-struck portrait of Rupert Murdoch, the planet's most notorious press baron has a crude, simple, primordial idea of a good time.

Back in the mid-eighteen-eighties, the Greek-born poet Jean Moréas, who coined the term Symbolism, had renounced the depiction of concrete phenomena; Symbolist writers, he declared, gestured instead toward a primordial Idea, which could be conjured by "pure sounds," "densely convoluted sentences," and "knowingly organized disorder".

But another is the tour de force that the show's curators have brought off by putting multifarious works — paintings, sculpture, photographs, videos, installations — in orbit around a primordial idea: home, where you hang your hat, if you have one, and where the heart is or, for some grim reason, fails to be.

I realize how naive I am, clinging to a primordial idea of a united and flourishing country.

According to Jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, or universal primordial images and ideas.

One authority burrows into another, as when the painter Cy Twombly is cited as quoting the poet John Crowe Ransom's assertion that "the image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness which ideas can never claim".

Mitchell has recalled that "lurking in Cloud Atlas' primordial soup was an idea for a novel with a Russian-doll structure" that would allow him to house multiple narratives within each other.

There's also the idea of primordial black holes, which are revived periodically as a candidate for dark matter.

Crenactin being a (or the) primordial actin supports the idea that Crenarchaea (or more precisely one of their progenitors) developed into the eukaryotic lineage, after bacterial endosymbionts were included in several independent events.

It is the "blankness" of Antarctica that appeals to Francis's imagination, "the absence of worn paths or cultural memories", "a whitewashed primordial backdrop against which ideas, memories, ambitions, regrets, could be examined without distraction".

The dualistic idea of two primordial spirits, called twins by Zarathustra, goes back to an Indo-European prototype.