| 单词 | atavistic |
| 例句 | Pure atavistic hatred and butchery from people who moments before might have said, “Good morning, Officer.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Except in some atavistic part of his brain, he knows exactly what they’ll do. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her palm lines do not branch into head, heart, and life lines like other people’s but crease with just one atavistic fold. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s an atavistic guy thing: Any danger involved is worth the thrill of belonging. ‘Horses of God,’ Nabil Ayouch’s Film About Islamic Extremism 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z When his scorn and loathing is intelligently applied, he tears away the veil of socialised politesse, revealing the world at its atavistic, carnal purest. Doug Stanhope ? review 2011-04-04T20:45:00Z Photograph: Rex Features The genius of Stravinsky's 1913 ballet, The Rite of Spring, looked two ways: embodying the atavistic impulses of human nature and the shattering birth pangs of modern art. Akram Khan Company: iTMOi – review 2013-05-30T18:49:35Z Neanderthal masculine possessive instincts alienate McClane from Holly initially, but those very same plain-guy atavistic impulses are what wow her, and everybody else as the film goes on. We don't need a Die Hard 'origin' story 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Few have so convincingly explored the atavistic impulses that underlie racial violence. Greg Iles concludes his spectacular Natchez Burning trilogy 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z I became an animal and I leaned into the long, atavistic trail to find my way. Childbirth is my extreme sport 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z He cannot erase an atavistic sense of pride in the powerful rise of Islamism — despite the violence it has engendered. Josh Radner and Gretchen Mol Star in 'Disgraced' on Broadway 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The setup could be described as “Casanova meets Dracula”—or, skeptical, empirical modernity, the cult of calculated, maximized pleasure meets the cult of pain and mystique, of the irrepressible and inextirpable atavistic and pre-rational forces. Albert Serra’s “Story of My Death” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z He’s an atavistic avatar of how to look hard yet write simply. Books Of the Times: Five Poets Seasoned by Life 2011-05-29T22:06:07Z A kind of condensed version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, it is half bad-sex romp, half atavistic nightmare, and all hilarious. Smalltown ? review 2011-02-21T21:30:02Z The fascinating thing about all this is the atavistic return of an old idea: “polite society.” An art loan from Bill Cosby draws the Smithsonian into a national debate I note this atavistic hypervigilance in others, too, when I am out and about. 'I feel I might die any waking moment': can I escape the grip of PTSD? 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Having spent the better part of 30 years in Japan, I’m ever more impressed by how profoundly primal beliefs and atavistic rites underlie even the sleekest Harajuku fashions. Waves of Destruction, Physical and Spiritual, Buffet Japan 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Lethem lays out a paranoid world of atavistic passions, complete with a new paganism that divides these bikers, hippies and hangers-on into warring camps: Rabbits and Bears — a DIY version of Athens and Sparta. Review | Jonathan Lethem is back on the detective beat looking for America’s troubled soul 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z This not only expresses a deep, atavistic need to escape from poverty and unemployment: it also reminds us that the joy of the show lies in well-drilled ensemble movement. 42nd Street 2010-07-02T20:45:00Z Myrdal put the full weight of American racism on the South, fueling the Southern exceptionalism myth that white supremacy was parochial, atavistic and doomed. ‘Ghetto,’ by Mitchell Duneier 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z This atavistic force is portrayed with great theatrical wit, stylishness and economy. | 'Being Harold Pinter': Political Theater, Brought to You by the Politically Powerless 2011-01-06T23:29:42Z He can do anything, play anybody: a dimwit New York bartender, a Russian copper, a cruel, atavistic London gangster. Jude Law is one but Tom Hardy isn't: what makes a movie star? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Standing on Cubist bases of welded industrial metal parts, they are paradoxical pastiches of atavistic futurism. Art In Review: AARON CURRY: ‘Buzz Kill’ 2012-05-24T20:27:38Z Watching her fly, graceful and fierce, I get a kind of atavistic buzz. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways "The Turin Horse," a slow and solemn black-and-white film set in a 19th-century wilderness and inspired by an anecdote involving philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, displays Tarr's uncompromising, atavistic commitment to darkness, difficulty and lapidary pictorial sublimity. 'The Turin Horse': Facing the abyss in slow, black-and-white film 2012-04-19T20:22:06Z Still, Mr. Eggers, a native of rural New Hampshire, telescopes several atavistic traumas. ‘The Witch’ and Five Hedy Lamarr Films Come to Disc, Casting Spells 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Immediately before and after describing his drunken car ride, Hopps talks about art, in his characteristically granular way: Lobdell’s paintings are full of “blunt and atavistic” biomorphism, hovering “right on the edge of abstraction.” The remarkable curator Walter Hopps and the less than perfect book about him, 'The Dream Colony' 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z We all know what heinous acts have been perpetrated in the name of these atavistic human impulses. ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’: Enter the dragon 2013-12-12T00:35:31Z So apparently atavistic, it seems to fit naturally with the retrograde nature of Southern life and labor, its economic and cultural underdevelopment, its racial caste system and its desperate attachment to the “lost cause.” Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z The men always carry spears or bows to defend themselves against “bushmen”— the vicious, atavistic descendants of criminals and beggars — or even occasional marauders from Wales and Ireland. Review | A look at the post-apocalyptic world envisioned in the novel ‘After London’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Indeed, I was hesitant to move during the experience for atavistic fear of disrupting the trance. ‘Red Moon Tide’ Review: A Village Paralyzed in Grief 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z No animal twangs our atavistic nerves like the great white shark. Diving with the shark attack survivor who filmed Jaws 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Equally, Thatcherism created massive job insecurity, higher pay for a few with static pay for the majority, and much more atavistic workplaces, with some of the longest working hours in Europe. Should workplaces have on-site psychiatrists? 2013-02-16T17:59:01Z And if the choice between safety and danger, virtue and vice is at times made overwhelmingly literal, it’s also in keeping with the movie’s atavistic tone and unblinking focus on the act of mothering. ‘Daughter of Mine’ Review: Lessons in Imperfect Parenting 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z It would be all too easy to mock the author’s commitment to recognising his atavistic abilities and releasing his inner animal. Animal instinct 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Robert Delaunay called his wife’s color sense “atavistic,” a word that accurately encompasses her fiercely holistic sensibility. The Week Ahead: Mar. 13 ? 19 2011-03-11T15:34:45Z There is something exotic and also comfortingly atavistic about Russian agents. | 'Covert Affairs': USA?s ?Covert Affairs? Evokes a Cold War Feeling 2010-07-12T21:49:00Z Two Vastly Different Enemies Share a Common Thirst for Blood From the heaving mass of carnage in Neil Marshall’s galumphing, atavistic gorefest, “Centurion,” a cautionary message struggles to escape. | 'Centurion': Two Vastly Different Enemies Share a Common Thirst for Blood 2010-08-27T00:01:00Z Rooted somewhere in every traveler’s psyche is an atavistic affection for a small, slimy creature that carries only what it needs on its back. Personal Journeys: They’re Souvenirs, Not Stuff! 2012-08-31T15:14:52Z He later progressed to people, making haunting, atavistic masks and, eventually, entire human forms. Eric Joisel, French Sculptor of Origami, Dies at 53 2010-10-20T04:06:00Z At 72, he’s retained a seeker’s curiosity, the poetic spirit that set them apart and the atavistic energy found in most great drummers. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z But a well-engineered 3-D Blu-ray still generates a particular kind of atavistic excitement, as if the View-Master slides I loved as a child had acquired a new depth, definition and ability to move. Video: 3-D Movies Are Taking a New Path 2011-09-09T15:00:00Z In the testosterone-saturated world of “Do You Feel Anger?,” words have been uprooted and mangled to the point that they now convey only the most atavistic impulses. Review: ‘Do You Feel Anger’ Plumbs the Depths of Office Humor 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z One very long day later Piers Morgan is still energetically defending himself, intoning his children's admiration for his arm's-length parenting method — all very pleasingly British in an adorably atavistic way. Piers Morgan taunts Daniel Craig over baby sling, and secure dads aren’t having it 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “The Turin Horse,” a slow and solemn black-and-white film set in a 19th-century wilderness and inspired by an anecdote involving Friedrich Nietzsche, displays Mr. Tarr’s uncompromising, atavistic commitment to darkness, difficulty and lapidary pictorial sublimity. Movie Review: Bela Tarr?s Final Film, ?The Turin Horse? 2012-02-09T22:58:40Z The movie aims for a kind of epic grandeur that taps into the atavistic legends of the forests and mountains of the Pacific Northwest but misses by a mile. Twilight Saga: Eclipse 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z No matter how many people attempt to convince me otherwise, the atavistic part of me is convinced I am going to die. 'Sick and asphyxiating' – why we live in an age of anxiety 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Depending on your perspective, this is either heartening or, at a time when the trend seems to be toward mutually agreed-upon porous borders on sexual fidelity, atavistic. Women on the verge: Is "Mammals" really about marriage and monogamy after all? 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z The more compelling nakedness on display is that of people revealed in the altogether of their atavistic impulses: the will to keep living and the fear of dying. Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The enemy airfields are destroyed in giant fireballs with billowing black smoke that awaken the same atavistic feelings of awed satisfaction provided by period combat films and wartime newsreels. | 'Red Tails': ?Red Tails,? George Lucas?s Tale of Tuskegee Airmen - Review 2012-01-19T13:00:00Z There Is Hope explores our seemingly universal impulse to believe in heaven and hell, good and evil, but does so at the level of atavistic impulse. Rosie Kay Dance Company – review 2013-03-15T17:33:37Z This atavistic behavior highlights a sea change long in the making. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z An owl perched on a chair-back stares at us like an atavistic, simian head, in a painting as bare as an empty larder. Picasso: War, peace and a life of extremes 2010-05-19T20:29:00Z There were more atavistic stirrings at the gym – here reimagined as a surrogate shipyard or colliery in which post-industrial man puts in a shift of hard graft in the eyes of his peers. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z Ruth quickly becomes the cynosure of desire – and loathing – for her in-laws, whose atavistic longing takes bizarre twists. An exemplary 'Homecoming' at Pacific Resident Theatre 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z It’s not hard, in a country that felt an atavistic hunger for saints and sanctification, to grasp the need for such bardolatry. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z These split impulses — the atavistic desire to rock out versus the hunger to reconquer contemporary pop radio — mean that “Warrior” is more varied than “Animal” but less cohesive. Music: Kesha Tilts Closer to a Rock Sound With ‘Warrior’ 2012-11-25T00:10:06Z Since then, he’s launched several other restaurants and expanded his atavistic men’s wear line, Freemans Sporting Club. | The Godfather of Hipster American Dining Serves Up a Fresh Dish: Enlightenment 2014-01-30T23:25:01Z Its deep-set eyes may convey primeval wisdom or atavistic aggression, or both, depending on your mood and the impulse to anthropomorphize what you see. Movie Review: Godfrey Reggio’s ‘Visitors’ Is a Slow Parade of Faces 2014-01-23T13:00:01Z And it awakens atavistic beliefs about morality and the body, as if our face, like the painting in Dorian Gray’s old schoolroom, is a physical record of our deeds. Perspective | It’s not enough for Facebook to own your images. It wants to own your mortality, too. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z British soccer louts, the First and Second World Wars, the brutalities of South African apartheid—to Lessing, all punctured the “sentimental” fiction that human beings are more than the sum of their atavistic urges. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The duets they dance, charged with tenderness, anguish and exhilaration, appear like atavistic blueprints of human behaviour. Royal Ballet: Triple Bill 2010-05-07T21:20:00Z Like the play itself, this dance number starts off silly and exuberant, shades into a darker quirkiness and ends in a disquieting burst of isolating, atavistic energy. Review: Paging Pablo Escobar in ‘Our Dear Dead Drug Lord’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Slow-moving and inarguably nutty, “Lamb” nevertheless wields its atavistic power with the straightest of faces, helped in no small measure by an Oscar-worthy cast of farm animals. ‘Lamb’ Review: Oh No, Not My Baby! 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z On some atavistic, deep-buried level, migrants, refugees, and those with starkly different values, bring with them the fearful perfume of uhygge. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Criminologists in the late Victorian period thought tattoos would be useful in identifying atavistic types; it is not known precisely why Wellcome wanted these examples in his collection. Tattoos: the naked truth about our forebears 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z For all of Hollywood’s supposed political correctness, some of the bigger awards went to movies with an oddly atavistic way of righting social wrongs. The TV Watch: Billy Crystal?s Shtick, and the Academy, Need Freshening 2012-02-27T05:54:50Z It’s an atavistic portrait of Cook County politics; Rahm Emanuel is the current Chicago mayor, and nobody fears a machine anymore. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z There was an atavistic pull to Piper’s performance that both commanded attention and defied easy analysis. ‘Medea’ Review: Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, Torched by Love 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z His raw material, you might say, since “The Northman” insists on the primal, brutal, atavistic dimensions of the tale. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Using notebooks is not an atavistic gesture; it's just what works for me, line after line, page after page. Craig Taylor: my desktop 2013-06-12T07:00:00Z His work is at once futuristic and atavistic. The Artistic Machines of Anton Alvarez 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z If there’s any component of fiction we think of as unfortunate, it’s plot—that “low atavistic form,” as E.M. An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z “Love” seems to posit that behind the genial, meek facade of the domesticated millennial guy lurks the atavistic anger and repressed hostility of the male animal. Awkward Sex, Onscreen and Off 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z For those of us who grew up on it, it’s strange how those atavistic memories of little girls saying, “How rude!” come rushing back to you like one of Proust’s madeleines. Fuller House: Tanner family nostalgia doesn't make redundant sitcom better 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Actually, as fashionable as Mekas’s film once was it has an atavistic quality. An Avant-Garde Film That Went for Laughs Instead of Scandal 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The idea that we’re buttoned-up moderns with atavistic needs does not become more persuasive through repetition alone. Review: ‘The Moth Snowstorm,’ and Other Natural Bliss-Outs 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z They sort of oscillate between these two atavistic or primitive states. Human, all too human: 10 sci-fi films that show what it means to be alive 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z They saw a parade of trussed-up trophy wives and argued that the designer was atavistic, oblivious to the realities of women who were not simply partying but working. Recalling the Lacroix Era 2013-04-19T23:17:23Z At first glance, much of what Jones writes is over-done, and in thrall to the strangulated cult-studs vernacular; it's too full of words such as "concordance" and "atavistic". Clampdown: Pop-cultural Wars on Class and Gender by Rhian E Jones – review 2013-05-16T06:00:08Z Michael Keegan-Dolan's version of Rite for Fabulous Beast For Keegan-Dolan, one key aspect of Rite was its attempt to create – and connect with – an atavistic past. The Rite of Spring at Sadler's Wells: 'It takes you to so many places' 2013-04-03T17:30:01Z I tell Kunzru I fund this passage fascinating because, in it, both parties are ostensibly secular, but as soon as rearing a child gets serious, they revert atavistically to Sikh and Jew. Hari Kunzru: 'What's happened since 2008 is a class war based on faith and credit' 2011-08-07T19:00:02Z It is a catalogue of atavistic brutalities and yet strangely unimaginative in its celebration of violence. Immolation of Jordanian pilot aims to drag us back to barbarism 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z In his latest study, Zipes argues that the fairytale, with its atavistic moral architecture, presents the reader with a "counterworld", which in turn offers a perspective on the shoddy morality of their own world. Why 2012 was the year of the fairytale 2012-12-24T08:30:01Z The setup unleashes the gang’s atavistic tendencies, anguished confessions and speculation on Mr. Peterson’s motives, along with geysers of blood that even spritz the lens. ‘Triggered’ Review: School’s Out Forever 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z The forward-facing, commercial ethos of the old GOP would have to accommodate itself to the atavistic, Lost Cause-nostalgia of the American South. Why liberalism drives so many people crazy 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z Yet that does nothing to diminish the totemic power they wield over us, which is an expression of the unquestioned, atavistic nature of belief. Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z How far has the Republican Party fallen into atavistic tribalism? Opinion | Republicans, you can do better than Herschel Walker. Draw a line. 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z There are plenty of remote places here from which to take in the atavistic spectacle: a sublime, disquieting experience, full of renewal and destruction, that shatters one’s sense of magnitude. The 25 Travel Experiences You Must Have 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z But I quickly discovered that what I crave from archery is simplicity: the pure feel and atavistic beauty of a single-piece wooden recurve bow, aimed without sights or other accoutrements — instinctively — with both eyes open. Feeling that pandemic panic? Skip the coffee break and shoot some arrows 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Donald Trump partnered with the most atavistic of all humans to get elected. Did "surprise witness" Cassidy Hutchinson save America from Trump's comeback? 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Kevin Mallon, 40, a shopkeeper on the bustling Falls Road, a Catholic stronghold, said nationalists were more interested in economic prosperity than in uniting with the South, even if that idea still holds atavistic appeal. In Northern Ireland, Divided Unionists Leave an Opening for Nationalists 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z But what Trump and the rest of these old, dangerous, atavistic, arrogant authoritarians haven't learned yet is that their time is up. Trump, Putin and their kind are still dangerous — but their time is almost up 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z But many women called it a put-down, an atavistic reaction to the feminist movement. Robert Bly, Poet Who Gave Rise to a Men’s Movement, Dies at 94 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump wanted to abandon the war in Afghanistan, but he understood atavistically that it would damage him politically to have a terrorist attack or a Saigon comparison attached to his policy choices. Opinion | What Trump’s Disgraceful Deal With the Taliban Has Wrought 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z But the story itself is kind of atavistic, too. Review | ‘Saw’ sequel ‘Spiral’ is a throwback — for better and for worse 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z But it wasn’t easy to overcome the atavistic tug toward his former ways. A loss of tourism threatens Costa Rica’s lush paradise 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z This week wasn’t just an atrocity, it was a glimpse into an atavistic nativism that always threatens to grip the American soul. This is when the fever breaks 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z War is not the atavistic behavior we think it is; it is, alas, highly sophisticated — perhaps, MacMillan writes, “the most organized of all human activities.” Review | Why human progress is inextricably linked to war 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z They descend into an atavistic savagery, something not only Freud but Joseph Conrad and Primo Levi knew lurks beneath the thin veneer of civilized society. The politics of cultural despair: That's what's killing us, not Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z When a manager “loses the team,” it’s atavistic, not intellectual. Perspective | It’s not which sports figures are speaking out that’s telling. It’s how many. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z It’s unabashedly physical and without guile, a siren call to the game’s most atavistic desire: seeing how far one can smash the ball. Five fascinating long drivers tell the stories behind their success - Golf Digest 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z “The need to help is atavistic, and that’s wonderful,’’ he said. How to Help in a Pandemic: Ask Before You Donate 1,000 Pizzas 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z They are evolutionary throwbacks, “savages” with apish, “atavistic” features. Can the Shape of Your Face Predict Your Propensity for Violence? 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z And then there is the nostalgia that verges on the atavistic. 'They tell the truth’: Spanish town where 34.5% voted for far-right Vox 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Two years ago, the far-right outfit was viewed as an atavistic irrelevance. Spanish election: Sánchez set to fall short of majority – live updates 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Puritan theology may have created fertile ground for capitalist economic success, as Weber claimed, but atavistic moralizing about labor, wealth and intrinsic individual worth is a terrible basis for shaping our modern health-care system. Opinion | Virginia’s Medicaid work requirements are puritanism run amok 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Ethiopia's system of ethnic federalism was always going to be vulnerable to politicians playing on atavistic sentiments. Bold reforms expose Ethiopia's ethnic divides 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z He was the first “starchitect” — a very public enfant terrible who, as Lamster notes, had an “atavistic need to be the center of attention.” Review: An engaging biography records the polemical life of architect Philip Johnson 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z By taking his atavistic appeals to the extreme, the president has prompted such a backlash that the same tribal ties he seeks to promote are starting to come undone. Opinion | Mark Harris’s son and the irony of Trumpism 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z In his usual atavistic way, the hope is that he will garner support from those who refuse to believe that most things change over time. Opinion | Trump doesn’t actually care about coal country 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Just think of it: A 21st-century democratic government shut down over an atavistic wall by a chief executive unable to decide whether he most wants to be maker of deals or the archetype of bellicosity. How Progressive Era radical Thorstein Veblen helps explain Donald Trump 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z By 2016, many saw that as prophecy: All they needed to do was wait for the GOP's atavistic denizens to die off, leaving the country to those on the right side of history. Opinion | Will the Blue Wave collapse before it reaches the shore? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z For the four-person family, moving into a hanok wasn’t just an aesthetic choice but an opportunity to atavistically reorient their lives. Has This Neighborhood in Seoul Figured Out the Secret to Slow Living? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z There’s plenty that’s atavistic in the buzz about tonight’s lunar eclipse, which will turn the moon blood-red. Enjoy the blood moon while you can. Donald Trump has plans for it | Philip Ball 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z What does work seems to be Harris’ distinctive atavistic mash-up: vaudeville for the social media era. Meet the sequined, Elvis-haired ringmaster who fights childhood hunger with quips and hard work 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z He brandishes indiscriminately the atavistic preferences of little old ladies in Winnetka, rantings of certifiable kooks, epithets tossed off in the bumpings and grindings of ethnic conflict, and rumblings of anti-Semitism that are truly sinister. Alan Dershowitz, Jewish identity and the long road to defending Donald Trump 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Instead, “as actual conditions change”, people in closed societies were forced to abide by an atavistic ideology that was increasingly unpersuasive. The George Soros philosophy – and its fatal flaw 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z In an era of short attention spans, it can seem atavistic to watch a half-hour series, let alone binge-watch it. “SKAM,” the Radical Teen Drama That Unfolds One Post at a Time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s atavistic, something to do with large mammoths and small cave men in need of food. Perspective | The Capitals’ best chance to shed their demons? Embrace the moment. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z I’d inherited, without really thinking about it, a set of default liberal Zionist beliefs about Israel as the good guy in its confrontation with the Palestinians, whose hostility I understood to be atavistic and irrational. Opinion | How the Online Left Fuels the Right 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z It is a paradox that, as Mr Corrales puts it, “groundbreaking innovations in public policy coexist with atavistic attitudes” in Latin America. The lives and deaths of transgender Latin Americans 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The architectural style of the bathhouses themselves was formal and atavistic, with marble walls, high arches, domed ceilings and mosaic floors. In Search of Lost Time in Europe’s Sanatoriums 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Americans’ atavistic impulses got the better of us because we grew complacent. Review | Have our tribes become more important than our country? 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Did nothing in Justice League thrill you, even on an atavistic level? Does Justice League do any of its heroes justice? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z It is human curiosity to see stairs, a tree, a hill, and the atavistic instinct is to climb up, to get a better view. Mount Everest is collapsing under our weight. Time to dump the bucket list | Philip Hoare 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The idea that he would be treated poorly, compared with the way other presidents were treated, seems to trigger an atavistic response. Opinion | Trump thinks he’s under attack. That’s very dangerous. 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z But while Trump was certainly tapping atavistic and nationalistic nerves, he was also tapping popular culture ones. Reality-show presidency goes to war: Why Trump was able to sucker the world on Syria 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z “The multi-ethnic drift from ex-colonies was substantial, inevitable and also irresistible. No little atavistic fears, despite Brexit, are going to change that. The black power movement, and Darcus, helped make Britain what it is today.” The story of the British Black Panthers through race, politics, love and power 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Because the single most striking thing about his matchlessly strange first week is how primitive, atavistic, and uncomplicatedly brutal Trump’s brand of authoritarianism is turning out to be. Orwell’s “1984” and Trump’s America 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Where he tried to conciliate, Trump’s victory suggests an atavistic yearning for confrontation. Europe loved Obama. Trump’s excesses remind us precisely why | Anne Perkins 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Many Australians have an atavistic fear of an uncontrolled flood of Asian migrants, and no government wants to look lax on “border security”. The American solution 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z I’ll do everything I can due to this atavistic doubt will not be able to come about but what is fundamental, what is true, is that the message goes through. Read President Obama's Remarks Telling Donald Trump to 'Stop Whining' 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z To many outside Hungary, the government’s brutal treatment of asylum-seekers, its atavistic rejection of outsiders and its elimination of domestic checks and balances place it outside the European mainstream. The wizard of Budapest 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z In contrast to the model of atavistic cultures, the silhouette of the rhizome places identity in the development of composite cultures through a networking of external inputs. Nicolas Sarkozy’s bigotry cannot define our worth as children of immigrants | Christelle Oyiri 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Your word, "atavistic," is just right, Mr. E. To my mind, the most effective way of diminishing his support is to show that he is in fact, to use his favorite put-down, a "loser". And Then There Was Trump 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z It is one thing to see these atavistic impulses surfacing from the depths of the human psyche in a work of art: Sachs’s handful of xenophobic lines are controversial enough in that context. We’re just 10 days from making the most terrible mistake on Europe | Matthew d’Ancona 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z It is the kind of atavistic thinking that makes me step back from my own nationalism, now and then. Dear Britain: Elena Ferrante, Slavoj Žižek and other European writers on Brexit 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z His harangue, delivered during a book reading in February, was in atavistic beatnik dialect. Why I Hate the Internet found so many readers 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Republican leaders fear their party is on the cusp of a split between familiar conservatism and a rekindled, atavistic nationalism. Trump’s victory fuels fears of Republican Party split 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z How do you deal with an opponent immune to the truth, whose appeal is atavistic rather than rational? And Then There Was Trump 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z I’m starting to wonder, given the increasing dysfunction of our democratic institutions, if the Hillary cult isn’t perhaps registering an atavistic longing for monarchy. Enough with the Hillary cult: Her admirers ignore reality, dream of worshipping a queen 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z As with Trump’s China-bashing comments and his threats to murder the relatives of Islamist terrorists while taking over Iraq’s oil reserves, Hitler too appealed to an atavistic, reckless sort of ultra-nationalism. It’s already happening here: Donald Trump and America’s creeping fascism 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The fear is basic, almost atavistic, in these days of advanced warfare. The Tunnels Under Gaza 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z It’s by putting ourselves — our highest ideals, our most atavistic impulses, our deepest loyalties — in conversation with the world, with vulnerability and conviction, that new possibilities open up. Could you trade in your political beliefs for their exact opposite? These six people did. 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In between the comb-over and the ducktail, between the two follicular spaces representing the modernistic and the atavistic, the fantastical and the nostalgic, there is a third tranche. White man pathology: inside the fandom of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z But this is no class war – the residents are all middle-class professionals – it’s territorial, atavistic. Why JG Ballard’s High-Rise takes dystopian science fiction to a new level 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Truth be told, the atavistic Yankee in me quietly set aside a few points for a bit of extra tenderness, too. Europe’s Steaks Get a Makeover Travelers Can Savor 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Our inability to prevail over such atavistic tactics is telling. ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z It is a sabotage apparently borne of a grotesque, atavistic culinary longing, like some deranged Brit on the Costa del Sol lacing a paella with brown sauce. Dill with it: Russia’s obsession with the spindly herb menace 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Florida State is allowed this atavistic display thanks to the approval of the Seminole nation. Pride or Prejudice? 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Some countries are reverting to atavistic impulses; witness Hungary’s construction of a fence along its border with Serbia. The birth-pangs of a policy 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The assumption, however, was that these atavistic attitudes were relics of the past, and things would get better as Japan became more open, more international, more liberal … and more feminist. Congratulations To Ariana Miyamoto, The Japanese 'Hafu' Beauty Queen -- Towards A More Open Japan? 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Referring to California’s water policy as “atavistic, Byzantine and unnecessarily complicated.” Moby Calling Upon California Governor For Water Reform. 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Then Obama accused his opponents of being irrational, militant and atavistic — the functional equivalent of the Iranian mullahs. What is the president doing on Iran? 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Of course, there is something wonderfully atavistic about the recent rise of the smartwatch. The Smartest Thing A Smartwatch Can Do: Disappear 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z There are even hints that Annelise, who is very blond, is inspired by atavistic Scandinavian nationalism. “The Americans” and America’s Afghanistan Baggage 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z I enjoy shooting with Brownies because they represent a pure atavistic photography experience. The camera that captured readers' lives 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Not only does this flout government policy; it panders to an atavistic fear that Hindus are producing fewer children than Muslims. The Hindutva rate of growth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Lewis has a passion for how “cats hold the ecological system intact” and for man’s atavistic relationship to nature. Art In Stellenbosch: There's Much More Than Wine In South Africa's Western Cape 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z His thinking on spheres of influence seems atavistic. A new Ostpolitik 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Such depictions suggested to Victorian men of science that imitation was an atavistic impulse, and confirmed their widely-held belief that some people lacked the will-power to discipline their unruly, primitive bodies. The human copying machine 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z The IS project is certainly megalomaniac and atavistic, but it is building on an idea that is much more than a fantasy. What's the appeal of a caliphate? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Some atavistic meat frenzy kicked in, and I devoured the sandwich, completely forgetting my mission to photograph it. Sandwiches can be little slices of heaven at these three spots 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Speaking at a medical engineering conference held at Imperial College London, on 11 September, Davies outlined a set of therapies for cancer based on this atavistic model. Physicists' model proposes evolutionary role for cancer 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Speaking at a medical engineering conference held at Imperial College London, on September 11, Davies outlined a set of therapies for cancer based on this atavistic model. Did Cancer Evolve to Protect Us? 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z There’s something atavistic about this pose, because you are, in effect, protecting your most vulnerable spot. Is Your Posture A Dead Giveaway? Three Postures That Raise Red Flags 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The sexual stalker, who is often an alienated loser consumed with his own failures, is motivated by an atavistic hunting reflex. Camille Paglia: The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z More atavistic still, they continue to assume that, on heterosexual first dates, the man should pay. Why do we cling to prehistoric dating rituals in a technological age? 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Once again, as is so often the case in the twentieth century, the atavistic thrill of nationalism is ballooned up by the blithe certainty that it will somehow magically lead to a progressive paradise. Scotland and the Auld Alliance 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Azov and the other paramils are plenty loyal to the atavistic cause—one reason Kiev deploys them—but there are not enough of them, either. “A steady flow of stupidity”: Reality in Ukraine — and Obama and the New York Times’ bizarro parallel universe 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z If Britain can't find a way of sticking together, it is the death of the liberal enlightenment before the atavistic forces of nationalism and ethnicity – a dark omen for the 21st century. We have 10 days to find a settlement to save the union 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Yet we needn’t surrender to our atavistic impulses. Is everyone a little bit racist? 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z My own ambivalence has a source different from the glory and shame of the union, which some Yes and No partisans atavistically invoke. Scotland's complicity with empire does not disqualify it from independence 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Oddly, perhaps, whole swaths of humankind remain dedicated to various ancient and atavistic sacrificial practices, a self-destructive allegiance that we may witness, more or less, worldwide. Society's Violent Habit in Iraq, Syria and the Middle East 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The spark in 1914 ignited among the atavistic blood feuds of the Balkans. What Historians Get Wrong About World War I 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z People were travelling across the world, for holidays or a conference, when they flew into an airspace poisoned by the atavistic, primeval madness of nationalism. The MH17 crash images show us what war in Europe looks like in 2014 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z But his use of words like “tribal,” “atavistic” and “clannish” to describe Arab peoples rankled some. Fouad Ajami Is Dead at 68; Expert in Arab History 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z In France, the FN will continue to tap the nation's atavistic attachment to the state and mistrust of markets. French National Front's changing face 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z In team sports, coaches inculcate the atavistic spirit and focus of a hunting clan. Motherlode Blog: Parents Should Coach Academics as Seriously as They Do Sports 2014-04-09T14:08:41Z Many fewer desire a decisive break with Russia, and among those who do are atavistic anti-communist fanatics of varieties such as the Right Sector, running all the way to neo-Nazis. Thomas Friedman, supreme toady: Also, shameless! 2014-03-01T15:00:00Z If you're using certain Android Samsung phones your email icon is even more atavistic - an envelope with a red wax seal. What is skeuomorphism? 2013-06-12T23:36:39Z I went after Nome, shouting his name in a fury, but he’d gone atavistic, tearing wool and hide from one bleating animal after another. T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Night of the Satellite.” 2013-04-08T04:00:00Z Her almost atavistic approach to foreign policy — shaped by naked British nationalism and a hawkish Cold War–era paranoia — appears today, at best, anachronistic and at worst deeply hypocritical. Thatcher's Foreign Policy: On the Wrong Side of History? 2013-04-09T08:05:23Z Even Mexico, a tenth of whose citizens live abroad and whose economy is more open than that of any other country its size, remains atavistically touchy about outsiders. Schumpeter: The new New World 2013-04-04T15:09:49Z Like many Americans, they experienced an almost atavistic desire for revenge, not to mention an impulse to rally around the flag. The Iraq War: 10 Years Later 2013-03-19T08:45:00Z “The animosity is not atavistic, it is intensely political,” said human rights activist and political analyst Maina Kiai, executive director of InformAction, a nonprofit working for political and social accountability in Kenya. Tribal conflict in Kenya leaves more than 180 dead 2013-03-01T19:50:00Z But Don Flynn, director of the Migrants’ Rights Network, an interest group, said the new version propagated a snobby, atavistic, superior approach to British culture and history. London Journal: Welcome to Britain. Our Weather Is Appalling. 2013-01-30T00:51:20Z These councils have been seeking amendments in the Hindu Marriage Act to support their atavistic views. India’s Fatal Rape Was No Anomaly 2013-01-02T09:45:00Z Among the perfumed, synthetic orchids of urban parks, the environmental movement of the mid-20th century seemed like an atavistic longing for the primitive. Will High Tech Cool a Hot Earth? (preview) 2012-12-26T15:45:00.500Z Conceding that support for a British exit was not confined to "atavistic little Englanders", Blair said it would be wrong to pretend Britain would collapse if it left. UK's Blair says EU exit would be "monumental error" 2012-11-28T14:20:15Z Was it some atavistic impulse to die alone, out of sight? Junot Díaz: “Miss Lora.” 2012-04-16T04:00:00Z Dr. Lieberman seemed to be touched also by an unscientific atavistic influence. African Foot Fossil Indicates Another Hominin Species Lived With Lucy 2012-03-28T17:05:36Z There are unregenerate atavistic impulses; Harry would dearly have liked to box her ears. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z Merely galloping back for an instant, and finding the summons was not repeated, he returned to his atavistic task. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z In the dream this atavistic relic of humanity manifests its existence within us, for it is the foundation upon which the higher rational faculty developed itself and still develops itself in every individual. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z Deering was very human and fought against an atavistic shrinking from the dark and loneliness. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Like all nascent social movements involving myriad interest groups, there are inchoate, atavistic impulses at work. The Media Equation: Wall Street Protestors Have Ink-Stained Fingers 2011-10-10T01:51:17Z These were my thoughts rather than later meditations on whether this might not be a sort of atavistic social instinct, faintly reminiscent of the gregariousness of their caterpillar youth. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z And it was as he had succeeded in telling Constance at last, after so many hesitations: everything that was atavistic in him had prevented him from becoming a brother, a fellow-worker. The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z I hope he has already been hanged, because only the hangman's cord could remove his atavistic cruelty. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z Just the same, every man has his little atavistic streak, if you can hit upon it. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z But before that eminently obvious first step at sanitising Barton's public statements, there were already means for Pardew to deal with a player who has consistently proved himself apt to yield to atavistic urges. New rules of engagement needed to curb players who tweet out of turn 2011-08-04T20:19:49Z As it happens, I’m too much of a scalawag to dispute the atavistic tendencies of my native region. The Tea Party is bigger than the South 2011-08-03T18:07:00Z Florida’s unique law expressly eliminating mens rea for drug offenses, the judge wrote, is “atavistic and repugnant to the common law.” | SOUTH: Florida: Drug Laws Ruled Unconstitutional 2011-07-28T03:35:15Z Veracity: The appendix vermiformis of the human character; a quaint atavistic instinct. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z He was in one of those atavistic rages which should have revealed to him the original type of bare-armed thanes from whom he was descended. Playing With Fire 2011-06-29T02:00:30.590Z In view of the undoubted scientific foundation upon which the germ-plasm theory rests, there is no limit to be set to atavistic memory. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z The coincidence in form between Hutchinson’s and malformed teeth and those of the chameleon suggests that tropho-neurotic change produces atavistic teeth. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z On either side stood plastered stone walls, which bore curious marks and circles, made—who shall say when or by whom?—remaining there as an atavistic suggestion of Etruscan symbolism. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z There’s a certain atavistic frisson provoked by an encounter with a species that humans have hunted, and have been hunted by, since the era of cave paintings. Green: The Eastern Cougar: Dead or Alive? 2011-03-05T13:44:52Z More than 100 signatories to a letter to the Sunday Telegraph letter, from Joanna Trollope to the archbishop of Canterbury, showed the atavistic, gut nature of the forests campaign. Cameron faces the other countryside alliance in Grizedale forest 2011-01-28T19:05:47Z Hence, rudimentary collision detection and sketchy AI, but a massive roster of cars and circuits; an atavistic celebration of storage capacity. Top 20 Games of 2010: part four 2010-12-24T09:17:58Z More than twenty teeth in the temporary set, or thirty-two in the permanent set, is hence an atavistic abnormality. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Mr. Paladino’s invective, on the other hand, smacks of hate and fear; his rhetoric designed to appeal to the most atavistic and base among us and our instincts. City Room: Paladino Admits to Some Missteps 2010-10-12T16:10:00Z I was simply a conduit for these atavistic stirrings that warranted neither protest nor approbation. Opening Night Excitement Blues 2010-09-30T11:00:00Z But there's something bizarrely atavistic about a sport species that refuses to acknowledge that homo sapiens have hands. A Film Critic on the World Cup: You Call that Football? 2010-07-10T13:50:00Z It taps into atavistic human urges to search for strong leaders, and to conduct witch-hunts against individuals seen to embody threats to the community. Superheroes and supervillains ? why the cult of the CEO blinds us to reality 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z Having now fixed a standard from which to study the degenerate face, it should be remembered that jaws which protrude beyond this line are atavistic, and those which recede are even more degenerate. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It is not a destination but a trajectory – from atavistic nationalism to co-operative internationalism. The European Idea lies dead, killed by the credit crunch 2010-05-22T23:06:00Z They thrive on atavistic fears of Islamic militancy and tug at unspoken apprehensions that politicians seek to parlay into votes. Letter From Europe: Of Values, Veils and Mistresses 2010-04-29T15:00:00Z Ms. Palin’s politics can border on the atavistic, but beyond her Tea Party theatrics, she has tunneled her own route into the public consciousness and gone into the Sarah Palin Across America business. The Media Equation: Sarah Palin?s Lucrative Career in Mainstream Media 2010-04-05T02:01:00Z "You have a very gentle, noble, pastoral nature, with a strong atavistic tendency!" said Paul, teasing her. Small Souls From an evolution standpoint these deformities are atavistic. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The Jews contend that anti-Semitism is a mere atavistic revival of the Jew-hatred of the middle ages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" My spine, too, like Conlon's, registered an authentic shiver of protest and atavistic fear. The Book of Susan A Novel But no words came for the one and she was not quite atavistic enough for the other. Thirty It was Stark who yelled in blind atavistic fear, and the echo of his own cry brought him up standing, shaking in every limb. Black Amazon of Mars The appearance of structural defects in habitual criminals points less to atavistic reversion than to radical divergence from the normal type of humanity. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists I suppose you might say I went atavistic, or something, at hearing this fellow claim he was Wetzel's nephew. Call Him Savage Unlike Ibsen or Nietzsche, he does not belong to the twentieth century; his religion, his social doctrines are atavistic, are of the past. Ivory Apes and Peacocks His blood, atavistically effected, pulsed faster until his new creed came to grips with his old emotions. The Junkmakers What I propose doing is to animate my earliest atavistic yearnings in a like fashion. The Land of Look Behind Somewhere within him was the sense of kinship with the wilderness that has become atavistic in Americans of six or eight generations on the soil. The Side Of The Angels A Novel We must distinguish between atavistic and parental influences. My Autobiography A Fragment Hatred, fury, malice, blind, atavistic passions distorted her face. Tante Although on the whole more innocent, the results of this atavistic instinct are no more elevated than those of jealousy. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Finally, it was shown that epilepsy frequently reproduced atavistic characteristics, including even those common to lower animals. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso But wouldn't it make him drop that too? flash of atavistic cunning came to him. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 On the other side a primal beast, just as huge, rage-driven, atavistic, savage. The Martian Cabal But when great ends are to be gained, he who would gain them must strip himself of those disturbing atavistic things we call the tender emotions. The Affair of the Brains We often hear of justified jealousy; I maintain, on the contrary, that jealousy is never justified, and that it is only the brutal stupidity of an atavistic heritage, or a pathological symptom. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study It was these anomalies that first drew my father's attention to the close relationship between the criminal and the savage and made him suspect that criminal tendencies are of atavistic origin. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso He wondered whether he unconsciously remembered his father's talk, or if the curious sense of familiarity was, so to speak, atavistic. Partners of the Out-Trail Philosophers have said that no matter how far the human race advances in the sciences, its fundamental reactions will still be atavistic. In the Orbit of Saturn From our saddles we could study these outbreaks of atavistic rage with serene enjoyment. A Son of the Middle Border You know what that stock is, a good sea-faring strain, and a race of wonderfully fine women, ‘atavistic aristocrats’ I remember an author in the Atlantic Monthly called them once. Turn About Eleanor This distinctly atavistic character is connected with the position of the hind-limb in quadrupeds. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso He was always fond of that class; possibly also some vague atavistic sympathy for the toilers of the sea lay dormant in his blood like an inherited memory. The Martian I am tempted to go so far as to maintain that a profound atavistic instinct in normal women makes them really contemptuous in their hearts of any purely aesthetic or intellectual type. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Again he would be dominated by an atavistic tenderness, displaying a certain religious respect toward his race. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Everything that has been forbidden, by discretion, by caution, by self-respect, by atavistic inhibition, seems suddenly to leap up out of the darkness and seize upon one with fierce, indescribable caresses. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions The excessive dimensions of the jaws and cheek-bones admit of other explanations besides the atavistic one of a greater development of the masticatory system. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso The stubborn power of hope, that heritage from his atavistic ancestors, was surging through his blood. Omega, the Man On the contrary, in all ordinary cases of mutilation the purely atavistic elements or gemmules would be set free from any modifying influence of the non-existent or mutilated part. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin An atavistic throwback to primitive barbarism is more difficult for us who have twenty centuries behind us more than they have. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 The doctrines of communism and of nihilism are the products of retrogressive genius and are clearly atavistic, inasmuch as they are a reversion to the mental habitudes of our savage ancestors. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire Several abnormal characters, which point to an atavistic origin, are found in the palm and fingers. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso But he was equally atavistic, once prejudice had taken possession of him, for what he suggested must be regarded as not one whit more refined than tar and feathers. The Prairie Mother Perhaps it is atavistic—this desire to rest and swing in a hamaca. Edge of the Jungle They were no longer doing a stunt, they were atavistic. Black Oxen Call it an atavistic response to the unknowns of darkness. Attrition They are the outward and visible signs of a mysterious and complicated process of degeneration, which in the case of the criminal evokes evil impulses that are largely of atavistic origin. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Why not be atavistic if you can be, and follow at a man's heel just because he's a man. The Lost Girl But he knows that those ages are past and that present day adherence to the old ideals is atavistic and reactionary. Socialism: Positive and Negative There is, to my mind, something inhuman in senility, something crouching and atavistic; the human qualities seem to drop from old people insensibly day by day. The Red Room It is implied that the process may be atavistic. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis It is only an atavistic phenomenon, the return to a former state. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Is it surviving physical excellence which reveals itself in this way, or is it a cumbrous atavistic relic like the appendix which the doctors remove? Personality in Literature Some atavistic trait of the protective instinct in man made me take a little more pains in caring for her than I might have taken with a man. The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette It is not likely to show itself atavistically in the children. Woman Her Sex and Love Life But he did not admit that so many atavistic instincts were at work in him. The Argonauts The atavistic origin of crime is certainly one of the most important discoveries of criminal anthropology, but it is important only theoretically, since it merely explains the phenomenon. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso But the longing of all at times, whether it be an atavistic or a cultivated longing, is for the real trees and all that goes with them. Modern American Prose Selections And from the depths of ancient atavistic instincts came the hope that Amherst was right—that by sacrificing their precious solitude to Mr. Langhope's convenience they might still deceive the gods. The Fruit of the Tree The atavistic nature of his act in throwing the dog into the oil tank is quite evident. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry The forehead was atavistically low, the cheek bones very prominent, the nose wide and flat, the lips loose and thick. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure This is an atavistic character common to animals and lower or prehistoric human races and contrasts with the numerical uniformity characteristic of civilised mankind. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Carnot's death accomplished nothing except to arouse a transitory atavistic hatred of Italians. Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) He will know that Mr Kipling is not profoundly and instinctively an atavistic prophet, because his atavism is more atavistic than the atavism of the first man who ever was born. Rudyard Kipling For the most part she studied his primitive attire, crudely made, but not without a certain atavistic grace. The Mantooth Simon Kartinkin was the atavistic production of serfdom, stupid, without education, and even without religion. The Awakening The Resurrection The criminal is an atavistic being, a relic of a vanished race. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso War is old--atavistic, a confession of failure, evidence of retrogression. Class of '29 Who knows?—for we have become unnatural and abnormal—subject to atavistic tendencies in thought and action.... Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation There was, rather strangely, something about Anne which fitted in with this atavistic idea. The Gay Cockade Attalaq was a type of the older warriors; unlike his more gentle tribesmen he possessed the atavistic savagery of his forebears of centuries ago when it was customary to abduct brides. The Eternal Maiden He examines the equivalents of crime among plants, animals, savages, and children, describes the pathological causes which call forth atavistic instincts and alludes to other special kinds of degeneration peculiar to criminals. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso A thin wisp of straw-colored hair across a low, atavistic forehead, unhealthy, yellowish skin, with pale, lack-lustre, faded blue eyes, he looked evil and vicious and cruel. The Bells of San Juan And yet the motives which we have enumerated are plainly atavistic and pathological. Outspoken Essays Also a single passenger: a swarthy little man with ink-black hair plastered down close upon a low, atavistic forehead and with small ink-black eyes. Six Feet Four The old atavistic fear of the dark and the mysterious dangers that threatened our savage ancestors? The Lure of the North The first part contains a summing-up of the author's ideas on the atavistic and pathological origin of the criminal. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso But he could still undergo an atavistic reversion to the ancient ways of his forefathers. The Romanization of Roman Britain I believe, however, that there is no justifiable jealousy; it is always atavistic or else pathological; at the best it is nothing more than a brutal animal stupidity. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Between her and the dead woman there was a similarity that was something more than superficially atavistic. The Conqueror The view of London as a growth from embryos, and the view of Paris as the outcome of atavistic instinct, belong to different planes of scientific thinking. Civics: as Applied Sociology The hieroglyphics of criminals are closely allied to their slang, of which in fact they are only a pictorial representation, and, although largely inspired by the necessity for secrecy, show, in addition, evident atavistic tendencies. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso But such cases are so infrequent that they may well be counted atavistic, that is, of the nature of a tendency to return to a previous merely animal condition. Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise It was her ruddy train rustling round the turns ahead that aroused these atavistic superstitions. The Collectors The best known of these theories are, first, the Schiller-Spencer surplus energy theory; second, the Groos preparation for life theory; third, the G. Stanley Hall atavistic theory; fourth, the Appleton biological theory. How to Teach "Piaget, Piaget, go away, go away," she mumbled inaudibly to herself slurring and babbling the consonants and vowels as if she were now beginning to imitate the language of her son atavistically. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America The spectacle of Lord Palmerston trying to save or serve Austria, which he detested, in obedience to the atavistic tendencies of the Foreign Office, is a lesson in history. Cavour By a singular, atavistic reversion, the last descendant resembled the old grandsire, from whom he had inherited the pointed, remarkably fair beard and an ambiguous expression, at once weary and cunning. Against the Grain There is to my mind something inhuman in senility, something crouching and atavistic; the human qualities seem to drop from old people insensibly day by day. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories One race is lively and progressive, the other is sluggish and atavistic. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories It was the corollary of the need to survive that existed atavistically and came about instinctually as a response passed on from the youngest of the earliest Homo sapiens. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America What atavistic strain, hidden deep within me, had been touched into vile response, giving this flash of intuitive comprehension, I cannot say. The Damned The chances for a survival and transmission of atavistic traits are greatest in those classes that are most sheltered from the stress of circumstances. Theory of the Leisure Class By this time he was getting old, and philosophic, and tolerant, and spiritually atavistic. The Red One This legal triumph of the atavistic instincts was terrible. The Psychology of Revolution She told herself that there was indeed something atavistic about it. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America These sentiments are atavistic residuum of the instincts of the primitive man, which the fear of punishment obliges the isolated and responsible individual to curb. The Crowd; study of the popular mind It should be possible for such aberrant or atavistic individuals to unfold their life activity on ante-predatory lines without suffering as prompt a repression or elimination as in the lower walks of life. Theory of the Leisure Class Two thousand years' disuse had left very little of the instinct; also we must remember that those who had at times manifested it as atavistic exceptions were often, by that very fact, denied motherhood. Herland But some strains of germplasm carry an excessive freightage of memories—are, to be scientific, more atavistic than other strains; and such a strain is mine. Before Adam Long hours of atavistic sleep to keep the body still and hidden from barely visible predators had been utile in prehistory but now it was an anachronistic vestige of adaptation. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America She always impresses me as a sort of atavistic idealization of the old Kelt at his finest and best. The Damnation of Theron Ware He recommends that your rights of paternity be revoked on the grounds that he believes yours to be a case of atavistic radicalism. City of Endless Night He was atavistically brutal, and to improvise the accompanying dialogue he did not find difficult. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice In this I take it that Red-Eye, in spite of his tremendous atavistic tendencies, foreshadowed the coming of man, for it is the males of the human species only that murder their mates. Before Adam It is in the Balkans that all ethnic distinctions fail and it is here that they prevail anachronistically and atavistically. Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema Their religion, atavistic and rigid, insists on ritual slaughter and male circumcision. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism He needed truth of some sort, and this sorted well with his need of action, his atavistic French bourgeois characteristics, and his weariness of liberty. Jean-Christophe Journey's End Here belongs a large amount of folk-lore and folk-speech relating to the defective, delinquent, and dependent members of human society, whose misfortunes or misdeeds are assigned to atavistic causes, to demoniacal influences. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day They themselves, individually and collectively, exhibited an unfeigned distaste for every form of aquatic sport which, Brett wickedly suggested, might be due to some subconscious atavistic emotion relative to the Red Sea episode. The Vision of Desire He falls desperately in love with Greenleaf's False Self and it is the revelation of the latter's dilapidated True Self that leads to the atavistically bloody scene in the boat. Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema The children, he found, were far less sensitive to light than the adults--a natural sequence of the atavistic principle well known to all biologists. Darkness and Dawn This atavistic movement, this retrogression towards primevalism, must have possessed a certain charm, for it attracted vast multitudes; it was only hemmed, at last, by a physical obstacle. Old Calabria They are the outward symbol of an atavistic striving: the modern infâme. Alone The monophylly may therefore be considered as a reversion to a more primitive state and the monophyllous varieties may be called atavistic. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Perhaps Kit was moved by an atavistic fear of the dark forest, and he owned that he was influenced by the civilized man's longing for the shelter of a house. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" Stern, with the atavistic instincts of even the most civilized man, scented the kill. Darkness and Dawn For the rest, indefinite segregation, such as we propose for the most dangerous atavistic criminals, is a measure which is already in use for ordinary lunatics as well us for criminal lunatics. The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 With what difficulty do we entirely throw off atavistic notions! The Secret of the Tower On the other hand we have seen that these atavistic varieties may revert to their nearest progenitors, and this leads to the curious conception of positive and negative atavism. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Mrs. Porter herself would have put it down to some atavistic tendency or pre-natal influence. The Coming of Bill Half hidden, the woman's perfect body, beautiful as that of a wood-nymph or a pagan dryad, roused atavistic passions in the engineer. Darkness and Dawn This is the atavistic type of criminals which represents an involutionary, or retrogressive, form of abnormality, due to an arrested development or an atavistic reversion to a savage and primitive type. The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 These atavistic human tails are often mobile; sometimes they contain only muscles and fat, sometimes also rudiments of caudal vertebrae. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 The production of varietal and of atavistic leaves is dependent to a high degree on external conditions. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Perhaps it was due to some atavistic tendency. The Coming of Bill "It's a most distressing, atavistic habit I'm getting into, knocking people down without rhyme or reason." A Fool and His Money Something atavistic in his nature urged him to strike out with all his strength at the fantastic face that forced itself upon him. The Rose in the Ring This smiling, happy folk, which I had seen in our manufacturing towns and cities, were now transformed, atavistic—all save one, a student, who stared wistfully through his spectacles across the waters. A Traveller in War-Time Each of them, and each of the larger branches, begin with atavistic leaves or with slight deviations. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Was it an atavistic joy in the horrible or was it merely a blasphemous curiosity? The War Terror He had caught the snap in my atavistic eye. A Fool and His Money Thus there was no progeny to inherit their atavistic tendencies. Revolution, and Other Essays The Balkan as a whole - from Hungary, through Romania and down to Bulgaria - was prone to authoritarianism and an atavistic, bloody form of racist, "peasant or native fascism". Terrorists and Freedom Fighters There is no transgression, no springing over into a purely atavistic form, such as may be supposed to have once been the ancestor of the present cockscomb. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Czechs portray "their" gypsies with the same lingual brushstrokes, the same venomous palette, a canvass of derision and atavistic, reflexive hatred. After the Rain : how the West lost the East Mr. Keith began: "It is an atavistic and altogether discreditable phenomenon—this recent recrudescence of monarchical principles—" "What did you promise about long words?" playfully enquired the Duchess, who had just returned. South Wind "I'm glad I didn't think of going on the stage,"' she said, childish yet very feminine unreason combining with atavistic puritanism. The Fortunate Youth The massacres were atavistic, primitive, the call of blood and guts and scattered brains. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters A twisted race of teasels might consist of successive generations of tall atavistic individuals, and produce yearly some twisted specimens, which might be destroyed every time before ripening their seeds. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Before this great unknown, they kneel and yield, an atavistic reaction to atavistic fears. After the Rain : how the West lost the East They appeared to him ferocious, atavistic beasts as they broke into the lumberyard beneath his window to tear the cord-wood from the piles and rush out again, armed with billets.... The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Having as yet learnt nothing by habit or by atavistic transmission, since it was making a first beginning, the nurseling would bite into its provender at random. More Hunting Wasps In an art that can leave no one to practise it in the future unless that one be perfect at the outset, of what avail are happy chances, atavistic tendencies, the mellowing hand of time? Bramble-Bees and Others One of them is the influence of sun and shade on leaves, and the other the atavistic forms, often exhibited during the juvenile period. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The belated efforts to redress these wrongs meet with hostility and the atavistic fears of the dispossessor. After the Rain : how the West lost the East To accuse me of atavistic frailties is an act of malice, I have to reject most decisively. My Life and My Efforts Thus "the unconscious" becomes a sort of underground prisoner, living in a dungeon, breaking in at long intervals upon our daylight respectability with dark groans and maledictions and strange atavistic lusts. The Analysis of Mind "But even with your childhood experiences there must be an atavistic streak in you—a throwback to your adventurous Earth forebears who settled your world?" The Lani People Or stated otherwise, it is very probable, that in most cases the atavistic characters have been retained during youth because of their temporary usefulness. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Defence contractors and the dubious characters known as weapons intermediaries stoked the atavistic fires of war in securing defence contracts. After the Rain : how the West lost the East An atavistic instinct prompted him to reach for the button of his right glove. Strictly business: more stories of the four million Simeon Kartinkin was the atavistic production of serfdom, a stupefied, ignorant, unprincipled man, who had not even any religion. Resurrection Reversions, or atavistic changes, would seem to give a better support to the theory of descent through modifications. Darwin and Modern Science According to our present knowledge we might expect the atavistic descendants of the first dwarf to be hybrids, and to be liable to split in their progeny into one-fourth dwarfs and three-fourths normal specimens. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Scratch the surface, the thin, bow tied, veneer of "kultur" - and you will find an atavistic poet, fighting against the very evil wrought by him and by his actions. After the Rain : how the West lost the East But to-night the gibes of his associates had stung him to a feeling of forward, lawless mutiny; a defiant, challenging, atavistic recklessness. Roads of Destiny Generally they stand in no causal relation, so that explanations drawn from physiological, anatomical, or even atavistic conditions are only approximate and hypothetical. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Then, entirely cheerful and happy, and unmolested by the frightened clerks, he led Harmony outside and in a sort of atavistic triumph bought her a bunch of valley lilies. The Street of Seven Stars It is very astonishing that this question should still be unsolved where so many individual trees bear atavistic branches that remain on them through long series of years. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation But there is something atavistic in me; I hark back to unconstitutional monarchs. The World Set Free It agrees with the general rule, that favorable circumstances strengthen the varietal peculiarities, while unfavorable conditions increase the number of the parts with the atavistic attribute. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Then the deviation diminishes rapidly, returning often to atavistic leaves at the summit of the stem or branch. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation It often requires several successive generations grown from seed collected from the most atavistic specimens. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation For the practical student it indicates that a specimen, once observed to produce atavistic buds, may be expected to do the same thing again. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Connected with these atavistic bracts is a feature of minor importance, which however, by its almost universal accompaniment of the bracts, deserves our attention, as it is indicative of another latent character. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Then the characters of the atavistic branches should be minutely compared with those of the presumed ancestor; they may be quite identical with them or slightly divergent, as has been asserted in some instances. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation By far the most interesting point is the question, as to what is to be expected from the seeds of such an atavistic branch. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Evidently we are not to expect that in so doing they will all become atavistic. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation |
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