primal

Example Sentences

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As societies emerged, we began to develop egos, those brittle parts of our selves taxed with negotiating between our primal urges and the constraints of a civilized order.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Motherhood can activate insecurity, comparison, and fear of exclusion in ways that feel almost primal."

From BBC

Wrestling strips life’s complications down to primal conflicts, and few wrestlers embodied this approach as famously, and forebodingly, as Hulk Hogan.

From The Wall Street Journal

But there’s a primal quality to the play’s conflicts that endows the work with an eternal vitality in the theater.

From Los Angeles Times

“There’s a base, kind of primal feeling to it, and I think that’s what people like about it. It’s down to business, you know? Especially in the arena, there’s no political stuff. It’s right there.”

From Salon