elemental
Example Sentences
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Octaves in contrary motion smoked with ferocity in the Hindemith, and sforzandos in the Beethoven reintroduced audiences to the elemental wildness of a composer of repertory standards.
From New York Times
They were something he experienced as a malign, elemental force.
From BBC
Global warming is an elemental threat to life on Earth, and ignoring it as its deniers advocate is a recipe for extinction.
From Los Angeles Times
Gradually, something elemental, true and human, begins to form.
From Los Angeles Times
We learn that this figurative formula accommodated an unusual range of proportions, emotions and body language, encouraging a kind of elemental connoisseurship.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
