Sentence examples for while primitive from inspiring English sources

While primitive compared to today's photographic techniques, the complexity of the daguerreotype process often resulted in images containing such a multitude of information that they emit what Nijhuis describes as an "eerie clarity".

While primitive, it was fun to use.

Their efforts, while primitive, are limited right now by funding and time.

This early attempt, while primitive, was the basis for a whole series of amazing – and amazingly useful – robotic arms.

While primitive people in the presocial or early communal stages might have been awed by such manifestations of natural power and ascribed them to the action of the gods, they would not necessarily have explained them as chastisement for human crimes before the concept of punishment became familiar under the regime of law.

While primitive man tended to view only his clan or tribe as fully human and so worthy of moral consideration, the ties forged among peoples via their cooperative interactions encouraged them to expand the moral circle from tribe, to ethnic group, to nation, and ultimately to all human beings.

And Tony Kushner's brilliant screenplay closes the gap between contemporary and 19th-century politics, all the while evoking how primitive 19th-century American life was, even in the White House.

The sad story of Michael Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller's son who disappeared in 1961 while collecting primitive art in the wilds of New Guinea, has already been the basis for at least one play and a television documentary.

In Asia elk are confined to cold grasslands found on the high plateaus of Outer Mongolia, southern Siberia, and the Altai and Tien Shan mountains, while more primitive red deer subspecies occupy the valley bottoms and upland forests.

While more primitive than signification, the semiotic participates in signifying practices.

While seemingly primitive, flexible turn-taking is surprisingly efficient, even relative to what can be achieved by mechanisms using monetary transfers.