Sentence examples for primordial version from inspiring English sources

Here he turns his attention to a primordial version of the institution: the implantation of new social order in the untamed frontier.

It's a sort of primordial version of "Ratatouille," about a Parisian mouse who is a world-class connoisseur of cheese — but then I discovered that an animated version of "Anatole" was made in 1960, directed by Gene Deitch.

Flora Armetta's post at The Book Bench about writers who counsel other writers to be brief and cut as much as possible reminded me of a primordial version of that advice — a practical example that goes beyond Gertrude's exhortation to "more matter, with less art".

As a journalist, he had a keen sense of a story—he was fast to pick up on the artistry of Martin Scorsese, that very year, when he saw, at the Chicago Film Festival, the primordial version of "Who's That Knocking At My Door?," and, the following year, on the artistry of Werner Herzog.

Reaching New York penniless, he falls under the spell of an advertising executive (Dawn Addams) who gets him onto a primordial version of reality TV and into a whiskey commercial that's the precursor to Bill Murray's great commercial scene in Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation".

I'm no Talmudist, but it has always seemed to me that the injunction to Lot and his troupe not to look back at the destruction being rained down upon the sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah was a primordial version of pulling the plug on the Internet: the Lord didn't want His people to see the horrors that He, in his wrath, was capable of inflicting.

It is full speed ahead, they say, on the new machine, which is designed to accelerate protons, the building blocks of ordinary matter, to energies of 7 trillion electron volts and then bang them together to produce tiny primordial fireballs, miniature versions of the Big Bang.

At times his version of primordial life looks Darwinian: in Sunrise With Sea Monsters a lucid sunrise has not yet cleared away the mists within which two unclassifiable leviathans, spouting or frothing and grinning with razory teeth, start the long evolutionary trek towards land.

In some, massive expanses of mutant pastels block out otherwise meticulously tricked-out sections, where laser-sharp lines bisect noxious puddles of muddy colors and vast expanses of burbling goo that might be the digital version of primordial soup, if such a thing existed.

But maybe — without even consciously realizing it — he was performing a rock 'n' roll version of a primordial ritual of mourning.

Someone has to do it, or else these pieces of property will sink back into the primordial ooze or its modern version, real estate development.