Sentence examples for primordial urge from inspiring English sources

"It's a primordial urge to be interested in your evolutionary past," Mr. Crabtree said.

Jesse Griffiths, the Austin butcher and proprietor of the locavore-style food enterprise Dai Due, has tapped into that primordial urge with his new book "Afield," a sort of field guide to preparing game for experienced and new hunters.

Woodpeckers peck partly for bugs, partly to communicate to a mate, to answer the raw and primordial urge of reproduction, which may be a spark, or a hormone secretion.

One officer, a low-ranking cabo (corporal), remarked to me that he loved philosophy Hobbes was his favorite because it helped him understand "how the criminal mind really works". He continued, "Violence is in our souls," as some primordial urge "that only disappears as society and the Catholic Church cover it up" through social integration.

I mean, how would you feel if your very own lusty primordial urges were thrust into the hip, mainstream light?

Schlemmer saw the modern world driven by two main currents: the mechanized (human as machine) and the primordial (depths of emotional and creative urges).

The crowd, on command, burst into hysterical howls of laughter, aching belly howls that went on and on and on, an event which frightened me far more than my 6 billion co-inhabitants, as a demonstration of how easily mass emotion can be created, just by urging one to recall primordial fears.

Whitehead also calls this primordial aspect "the lure for feeling, the eternal urge of desire," pulling the entities in the universe toward as-yet unrealized possibilities.

Because none of them is a seasoned filmmaker with a busy and diverse career; they're all hitching their directorial wagons to the forceful personalities of the real-life characters they're depicting, venting an urge to pay homage or spark celebration that takes precedence over the primordial cinematic drive for observation.

The urge to greet the new year with public songs and dancing may well be primordial, and from local lounges to concert halls, in places that have music every night and places that don't, New Year's Eve is the occasion to crank up both the volume and the price.

The reasons they'll be running stretch the distance of the 26.2 mile trek from Hopkinton to Boylston Street in Boston, yet threading through them are certain primordial drives — the determination to overcome a challenge, the instinct to be part of something larger, the urge to test their own endurance — that they believe will propel them to the finish line of the 123rd Boston Marathon.