Sentence examples for was a primordial from inspiring English sources

Founding United Artists with Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith was a primordial independent filmmaker.

Weber was a primordial master of point-of-view shots, which she deploys among other highly inflected angles to infuse the action with psychological torment.

Always beloved as the place that had more lox than the Panama Canal, Greengrass was a primordial fixture of the quondam mythical kingdom of the Upper West Side.

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.

In matters of sex, though, it was a primordial swamp.

Back then, all stars needed to form was a primordial soup of mostly hydrogen and some helium atoms, perturbed by the effects of gravity on minuscule differences in the density of the gases, and the mysterious substance known as dark matter.

It could be a primordial mix of rock and ice.

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

The existence — and the suppression — of "Cocksucker Blues" is a primordial moment in this historic shift.

It might be a primordial scene, or a vision of post-apocalyptic doom like that witnessed by HG Wells's time traveller.

He told me that the book is a primordial account, both scholarly and enthusiastic, of silent movies; I bought the book, of course, and am finding (writing here midstream) that his praise is entirely justified.