Example sentences for: primal

How can you use “primal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Clinton is the primal father, who has claimed sexual access to all women.

  • White Heat features two of Cagney's greatest primal tantrums: in prison, when he finds out that his mother is dead and moans like a maniac; and at a chemical refinery, where he screams, "Top of the world, Ma!"

  • In form, it's a showbizzy patter song, but because of its lightning tempo (which makes the words barely intelligible) and the steady repetition of "bitch" on the downbeat, it has the primal force of an incantation:

  • By initiating his glossolalic cant with beth -element words ( feemalator, wamalama ) and continuing with palatal variations on their respective themes ( jasperator, gamanama ) the boy is apparently responding to the same primal urge that motivated the anonymous creators of our alphabet to begin their artificial series of sounds with aleph, beth, gimel , and daleth --and not with something like zis boom bah!

  • Why do big-studio movies that celebrate wildness and primal man and equate civilization with corruption tend to play as if their plots have been hammered out by Hollywood executives on car phones?


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