8 sentences with 'primitive'
Example sentences and phrases with the word primitive and other words derived from it.
• « To cure himself, primitive man took magic potions, underwent rituals that purified him and surrendered himself to the power of witches and sorcerers. »
• « The American physician William Fitzgerald took this primitive knowledge and studied it in depth until he devised a theory that there are organ reflex zones in the hands and feet. »
• « Many of those primitive libations combined a supposedly therapeutic sense with a mystical/magical one to alcohol: the goddess Methe, ancient deity of drunks, has her image in the temple consecrated to Aesculapius, father of medicine educated by the centaur Chiron in the healing virtues of natural substances; »
• « Those primitive hordes, wandering restlessly in search of food and shelter, had to face harsh climates that allowed only the strongest, the healthiest, to survive. »
• « Many centuries have passed from the elementary morsels of primitive man to the sophisticated dishes of contemporary man, but the primary function remains the same: to eat in order to live. »
• « The few scattered bones of primitive peoples reveal that concerns about the "afterlife" are ancient, and today there are plenty of testimonies - the only evidence - of people who have returned from another life: I was dead for several minutes, they say in shuddering words. »
• « There are more defences. At least 46,000 species of moths have evolved a primitive ear that functions as an echolocator alarm. This system is capable of picking up the bat's ultrasonic pulses from about 30 metres away, giving it six times the range of the echolocator. »