primitively
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Not only was she primitively engaging with staging and character development, but she forged her directing instincts by recruiting neighbors and her two younger siblings to perform in her “films.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
Back then, my critical faculties were barely developed, and I hadn’t yet learned to distrust that which primitively pleased me.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
I try to work out whether his media charm offensive is motivated by selfless patriotic duty, or opportunistic self-interest, but the answer turns out to be more primitively powerful than either: his pride.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2018
Despite its Western trappings, Takarazuka draws on “ideas of purity that are very primitively Japanese,” Akio Miki, a veteran Takarazuka director, said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2016
Land primitively belongs to a nation, and no man naturally has any right to more of it than he can himself cultivate and use.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
