atavistic
Example Sentences
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Tribal pull isn’t the brain’s only atavistic trait that struggles with modern life.
“Parade,” which delves into antisemitism, systemic bias in our judicial system and the power of a wily demagogue to stoke atavistic hatred for self-gain, has a disconcerting timeliness.
From Los Angeles Times
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
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
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