Primitivistic

An alchemist at the easel who transforms her feelings into works of primitivistic power, Ms. Snyder is probably the closest thing we have in Western art to a witchdoctor or shaman. ❋ Lance Esplund (2011)

We hope that no matter what miracle invention or abomination to the ears comes along, Mr. Guano will be there to embrace it or ignore it or react with primitivistic paranoia. ❋ Desuko. (2009)

Her sculptures from the 1940s and 1950s are lumpy and massive; the figures are primitivistic, with thick legs and arms, although the feminine figures are graceful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The manifesto shares the title of a Dada publication of two issues, Cannibale, whose lively primitivistic spirit is joined to the Russian Rayonists, with their Why-We-Paint-Our-Faces manifesto against the sophisticated and over-civilized society. ❋ Greenintegerblog (2008)

Riefenstahl had been accused of glorifying the Nazi regime in films that she made for Hitler during the 1930s, and her book of photographs of the Nuba people was also attacked for what some people believed was a racist, primitivistic portrayal of this ethnic group. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)

But at the same time they were not bothered with foreign trade and navigation, which apparently most primitivistic authors disdained, and rather than seek food in foreign lands they let themselves die of famine. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

Though Lucretius 'contemporary Cicero favored antiprimitivism to primitivism, there were certain primitivistic strains which appear in his writings. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

But psychologically the misfortune was not so great, for it satisfied those who had primitivistic leanings. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

The main function of these writers in the history of cultural primitivism was to keep alive the idea that it was possible to live in a hard primitivistic fashion and at the same time be virtuous, in fact exemplary in behavior. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

But this version, which is not purely primitivistic, we owe to Vergil (Aeneid VIII, 314-27). ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

To read medieval literature on this topic is to be entertained with a variety of fantastic dreams, dreams of a soft primitivistic life which were not exceeded by those of any of the Pagans. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

But his primitivistic vocabulary did not prevent the Nazi from using all the modern methods of destruction when he made war. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), provides a convincing example of the pervasiveness of primitivistic concep - tions even though Swift himself was highly mundane and sophisticated. ❋ A. OWEN ALDRIDGE (1968)

But there was another candidate for the position of primitivistic paradigm waiting in the wings, ready to enter the stage when the cue came. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

The Scythians, like most Noble Savages, lived a hard primitivistic life. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

Early collectors of folklore had been antiquarian hobbyists, recording local survivals, or travelling amateurs, reporting home from primitivistic explorations. ❋ HARRY LEVIN (1968)

One of the problems that confronted the primitivist was the discovery, if possible, of the natural man — the man who followed nature rather than custom or opin - ion, and who was a living exemplar of the primitivistic life. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

Of these movements in their most primitivistic form one might select the Adamites. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

His primary doctrines, nevertheless, supported primitivistic suppositions. ❋ A. OWEN ALDRIDGE (1968)

There has also been a reversion to a form of anti - intellectualism with primitivistic overtones in the work of both Freud and Jung. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

Every [hunter gatherer] in the world is an [anarcho-primitivist] and [proof] that it works. ❋ Ted Slade (2010)

"So do you support the left or the right?" "Neither, I'm an Accelerationist Post Modern Primitivist!" "What the hell is that?" "Basically, REJECT [MODERNITY] [RETURN TO MONKE].......but with [robot] arms" ❋ GingerLandWhale (2020)