primitive

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And they are all presented, in a belabored game-recognize-game metaphor, as players: The principal characters are given old-school avatars, and the movie’s many international locations are delineated using primitive video graphics.

From Los Angeles Times

“The idea was Persians or Arabs brought civilization with them to benighted, primitive Africans,” adds Mark Horton, an archaeologist at the Royal Agricultural University.

From Science Magazine

He has unearthed novel techniques within those recordings, including a primitive form of overdubbing.

From New York Times

“All these databases are very primitive and I had not been put on the federal wanted list yet. And this is the case in many other examples.”

From Washington Post

Rather, he lets his muse, Dafoe, simply inhabit this harrowing journey with his strange magnetism and sense of timelessness, in a performance that is simultaneously primitive and transcendent.

From Los Angeles Times