Atavistic

Members of the audience actually gasped when Hayek referred to Socialism as 'atavistic' - the reversion to an older, more primitive form. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe they're just being atavistic, which is generally part of the successful business person's act anyway. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But such cases are so infrequent that they may well be counted atavistic, that is, of the nature of a tendency to return to a previous merely animal condition. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

But it divides between those whose feelings might be termed atavistic or revanchist and those who make a reasoned critique, in sorrow as much as anger, of Western policies - especially the Iraq war, the Kosovo affair from 1999 onwards, United States plans for theatre missile-defence, and, not least, the expansion of NATO. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I have come to the conclusion that certain types of people need scapegoats and sacrificial victims to satisfy some kind of atavistic sadism that compels them to attack what is beautiful and good. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, admittedly I had to look up "atavistic" and it means a "throwback", or old fashioned. ❋ NYT (2010)

In a delivery style that was uncharacteristically fluent, he lambasted the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), describing them as "atavistic" and operating as if they are in the "dark ages". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Likewise, spending an hour or two wandering rows of nearly endless varieties of apple trees or a slope covered in lines of tidy blueberry bushes with the sun on your face, looking for ripe fruit with your kids, or even a date, is the kind of atavistic, wholesome good time that Wii hasn't gotten close to touching yet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In this view, disputed by church leaders, the contest becomes a kind of atavistic zero-sum game. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Clearly, there's some kind of atavistic appeal at work here that scrapes directly from the very bottom of the barrel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

19: Some kind of atavistic comics-reader species-memory makes me think that this X-Treem '90s version of Mr. Mind must be a visual riff on the revelation of the big bad Mr. Mind as the bespectacled worm in the original "Monster Society of Evil" serial back in the '40s. ❋ Douglas Wolk (2007)

"atavistic" concept of social justice alive in the social-democratic project. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This history is written in our tissues and our bones, in our functions and our organs, in our brain cells and in our spirits, and in all sorts of physical and psychic atavistic urgencies and compulsions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not just with the sworn testimony, but with the casual remarks made over a Cobb salad at the Geithners', the atavistic courtside grunts at a Wizards game, the patter of Ben Bernanke the gracious dinner guest. ❋ Peter Jeffrey (2011)

I believe the two failures are linked by an indifference, inherited in the first instance, atavistic in the second, to the rights and well being of dark people. 1950s Bill did not care that white people oppressed black people, 2000s Bill did not care that brown people tormented brown people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[I am] an atavistic.:[-D] ❋ Tirumarai (2006)

The [atavistic] [dew] claw in many dog breeds is a simple example of a genetic [throwback] to an earler stage of dog evolution. An atavistic example in humans is when babies are born with true tails. ❋ OneBadAsp (2006)

English GSCE: "[Mr Hyde] has an [atavistic] nature, acting on his [gut instinct]." Pulling hot birds: "Hey babe that top looks highly atavistic ;)." ❋ AtavisticMouseTrap (2018)