Example Sentences

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It’s a primitivist ritual in masks, with a symbolic tree and lots of Graham vocabulary.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2022

He appeals to the primitivist ideas of everyone around him.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2020

Giacometti took to creating only works that, he said, he had visualized in advance, in forms and styles that hopscotched from primitivist to abstract and from sweetly poetic to viciously aggressive.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018

When you combine that unusual shape with the tower’s skin of stone panels, the effect is distinctly primitivist, with hints of the way Mayan or Egyptian temples preside over wide empty plazas.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2017

Ulysses Marshall ditched the box in favor of a larger, coffin-shaped form covered in graffiti and primitivist pictures.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2016