primitiveness in a sentence
Examples
- When he got to know about the " excessive primitiveness " of the isolated Malers he decided to make them the object of his " scientific investigation ".
- However ancient authors such as Macrobius shared MacRitchie's beliefs that the " giants " of mythology were not giants in size, but huge in impiety ( or their primitiveness ).
- He makes rich, luminous images on parched spruce and fir : portraits medieval in their primitiveness, but so finely wrought and brightly shaded that they almost leap off the wood with life.
- "It's humiliating, as if we were plunged back into the primitiveness of the Middle Ages, " said Branka Nikolic, a physician and a mother of two.
- In many ways, this is art in the service of an ideal, a Platonic belief which gives life its conceptual and moral worth, not its rudimentary, divided, and raw primitiveness.
- Depictions of old-time television and radio tend to take on a nostalgic haze, and this film is no exception, relying heavily on viewers'being charmed by the primitiveness of it all.
- Commentary from American news outlets has focused on the primitiveness of the execution method ( " Butchers, " said the New York Post; " Savages, " said the New York Daily News ).
- Lester del Rey found that although the first volume managed to " avoid the primitiveness and the formula " that spoiled many similar series, the virtues of such series were also missing, leaving him unenthusiastic.
- People who measure everything by money are called in the film " Chaldeans ", i . e . lackeys, and a financially successful Russian businessman is the subject of ridicule due to his ignorance and primitiveness.
- "It's humiliating, as if we were plunged back into the primitiveness of the Middle Ages, " the Associated Press quoted Branka Nikolic, a doctor and mother of two, as saying.