Sentence examples for would be primitive from inspiring English sources

His next novel, "Mamba's Daughters," published in 1929, imagines an all-black opera, with music that would be "primitive -- sophisticated -- neither?

(Would it be primitive to say that he seems so English in this way, though he's become an American citizen?) When he shares a tender memory, his preference is to quickly convert it into a larger political observation; for him, politics remains the most crucial sphere of moral and intellectual life.

The small and scattered skeletal assemblage from Ucheliungs and Omedokel caves may show traits that would appear to be "primitive" to the genus Homo, but comparisons with other Palauan samples and those from both within and outside of the Pacific show them to fall well within the range of modern human variation.

The police chief said the investigation would be "very primitive".

Bush's speech went some distance in reassuring those who feared that his response to this crisis would be a primitive spasm of vengeful violence.

Many biologists assumed that Kuphus would be the primitive forerunner of both lines — the mud-dweller from which all others arose.

"You might have thought that the first browser would be very primitive but it was not.

"The only continent that would astound the Renaissance time-travelers would be North America, which was primitive and nearly vacant as late as 1607, but which today hosts the mightiest, richest, most dynamic civilization in history -- a civilization, moreover, that perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing".

This ancestor would have been primitive, with a limited brain, meaning it is likely to have communicated using grunts and vocalisations similar to modern chimps.

"We set out to explore the ability of minerals to catalyse reactions that would be important in a primitive metabolic sense," Dr. Cody said.

She thought Miss Leland would be shocked by the primitive quality, but instead she said the steps didn't look hard at all.