Sentence examples for regarded as primitive from inspiring English sources
His approach was regarded as primitive.
Because of their apparently ancient origin, cathartids may be regarded as primitive survivors.
And Erich Jarvis, a neuroscientist at Duke University, argues that avian brains, long regarded as primitive, are not so different from mammalian brains after all.
Her warning against Islamic exceptionalism is one that needs to be taken to heart if we are to come to terms with what is too easily regarded as primitive religious fundamentalism and barbarism.
Dr. Chittka — who said that the bumblebee group, although highly social, was regarded as primitive in social habits — wondered why a single bumblebee, after returning to the nest, beat its wings excitedly and ran around crazily in circles.
When operas of this period were being "rediscovered" in the early 20th century, they were often regarded as "primitive", just as much of the visual art of the Renaissance was.
As well as high rates of opportunistic murder, hunter-gatherer societies have another trait we would regard as primitive.
"A practice we generally regard as primitive -- dropping your children by the wayside -- has suddenly become favored and promoted," said Joan Hollinger, a professor of family law at the University of California at Berkeley.
'Not a sexy area,' he says, 'because this was the time when people were doing their first cloning, when molecular biology was still looking at RNA and protein and new, exciting things.' His work was largely abstract, and limited by what we would now regard as primitive technology.
And if there is no privileged set of sentences reporting experience, then the rug would seem to have been pulled out from under some of the main presumptions and motivations for the Positivist program: what would be the significance of "analyzing" the meaning of a claim into merely what a particular theorist had (arbitrarily?) decided to regard as primitive?
