Many existentialist writers have stressed this primordial, metaphysical function of the work of art as a partial revealing that aims to uncover the totality of Being.
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".
Her title, borrowing a phrase from the writer László Krasznahorkai, refers to art's primum mobile, its primordial first domino.
"The new episodes prove the show has room to grow," said Brad Grey, the executive producer who teamed up more than three years ago with David Chase, a writer, to create the series out of Mr. Chase's primordial issues with his own difficult mother.
Writers describing fires almost inevitably fall back on an atavistic, primordial vocabulary.
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".
Writers, a breed full of need, are a painful planetary species to emerge from both primordial bog and unspeakable blog.
Bell (the pseudonym of a New York writer named Joshua Gaylord) isn't much interested in shocking his readers with visions of zombie inundation, in stoking their primordial fears of the unknown or in spinning lurid fantasies of brute survival.
Innovation is primordial.
The waterfall is primordial.
