atavistic

Example Sentences

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Yet that does nothing to diminish the totemic power they wield over us, which is an expression of the unquestioned, atavistic nature of belief.

From New York Times

How far has the Republican Party fallen into atavistic tribalism?

From Washington Post

Depending on your perspective, this is either heartening or, at a time when the trend seems to be toward mutually agreed-upon porous borders on sexual fidelity, atavistic.

From Salon

There are plenty of remote places here from which to take in the atavistic spectacle: a sublime, disquieting experience, full of renewal and destruction, that shatters one’s sense of magnitude.

From New York Times

Actually, as fashionable as Mekas’s film once was it has an atavistic quality.

From New York Times