primitively
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Not only was she primitively engaging with staging and character development, but she forged her directing instincts by recruiting neighbors and her two younger siblings to perform in her “films.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
Back then, my critical faculties were barely developed, and I hadn’t yet learned to distrust that which primitively pleased me.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
I try to work out whether his media charm offensive is motivated by selfless patriotic duty, or opportunistic self-interest, but the answer turns out to be more primitively powerful than either: his pride.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2018
He winds through the primitively dark streets of New York City, 1973, trembling in the rain-speckled windows, the lurid lights of downtown nightclubs and the seedy arcades of Times Square blinking and blurry.
From The Verge ● Feb. 12, 2016
Lucetta went on with her mending, the fish-bone needle making her progress primitively slow.
From Stranded in Arcady by Lynde, Francis
