| 单词 | primitiveness |
| 例句 | Here, on the borders of death, life follows an amazingly simple course, it is limited to what is most necessary, all else lies buried in gloomy sleep;—in that besides our primitiveness and our survival. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Because it called out their blackness, their primitiveness. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The original Prince of Persia, which came out in 1989, now seems almost touching in its primitiveness, closer to Pong than to Gungrave or Steel Battalion. Film: Jordan Mechner?s Multiplatform ?Prince of Persia? 2010-05-22T07:09:00Z He describes a society characterized by “widespread inhumanity, primitiveness and barbarism” and afflicted, owing to the shocks of industrialization and urbanization, “by terrible, and destabilizing, social problems.” Transforming Britain From Brutality to Gentleness 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z And that sheen in no way detracted from the work’s would-be primitiveness, instead lending the biting sonorities a sort of surgical edge. Music Review: Valery Gergiev Conducts New York Philharmonic 2010-05-10T20:59:00Z The film’s solemnity is seductive — as is Mr. Scorsese’s art — especially in light of the triviality and primitiveness of many movies, even if its moments of greatness also make its failures seem more pronounced. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z “I’m interested in the primitiveness of rocks, of materials that have always been there, that will always be the same, that show the patina of time.” At the U.S. Open, 5 Artists Get a Place in the Sun 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z These scholars argued that the "primitiveness" of Indigenous agriculture was reflected in the technologies they used. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z After Darwin’s 1871 book Descent of Man was published, male scientists began to obsess over racial hair types as an indication of primitiveness. Female facial hair: if so many women have it, why are we so deeply ashamed? 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Human behavior, in all its predictably irrational glory, is still the culmination of a complexity that dwarfs the relative primitiveness of the bacterium. Bill Gates and Elon Musk are wrong: Artificial intelligence is not going to take over the world 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z "There's a primitiveness and a rawness and a roughness in the storytelling, which we reproduced in our story." Danish duo saddle up for western 'homage' The Salvation 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The primitiveness of our voting technology is surprising in an era when we routinely use smartphones, when big data is revolutionizing business, and the Internet of Things is spreading across the landscape. Can Open-Source Voting Tech Fix The U.S. Elections System? 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z When companies test a product concept today, they’re limited by the relative primitiveness of the tools available to them, such as consumer concept testing and market structure analysis. Creating What Consumers Want 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Students of human evolution long believed that the story of our species origins was linear, “from primitiveness to perfection.” Paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall Talks about What Makes Humans Special [Video] 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z But enough has been said to show that the Persians are a very clever and artistic race of people, and considering the primitiveness of their methods and implements, the results are astonishingly beautiful and charming. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z The peasant inhabitants of S�tersdalen are of rather a charming primitiveness, and some of their houses can show wonderful specimens of quaint and grotesque carving. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z Thus the simplicity of Patrick Henry's habits and tastes might be inferred from the primitiveness of his dwelling. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z The stark images of “Spanish Village,” published in 1951, speak volumes about the poverty and primitiveness of rural life in Franco’s Spain. Ai Weiwei’s New York Hobos Meet Heroic Midwife in Photo Shows 2011-10-24T23:22:05Z The separation of these two kinds of primitiveness is vitally important to our present discussion. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z While Freyer, among his own people, was returning to primitiveness and simplicity, she was constantly departing farther from it, repelled and terrified by the phenomena with which Nature, battling for her eternal rights, confronted her. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z All of this is clear evidence that the clunky primitiveness of the Paleozoic e-book era is finally drawing to a close. State of the Art: Two New E-Readers Move the Plot Forward 2011-06-08T16:50:05Z It must not be forgotten, however, that this lack of prejudices is based not on political understanding, but on political barbarism, on social shapelessness, primitiveness, and lack of character. Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 2011-06-04T02:00:16.113Z But in the case of Sigurd, the undiluted primitiveness of the marauding Norseman, untainted and uninfluenced by the undoubted advance the world was making, was embodied. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The primitiveness of the place itself and the magnificence of his surroundings had made a distinct and favourable impression upon him. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z Everything here possesses the charm of fresh primitiveness; the festive bathing gown, the tasteful, fashionable toilet of Western seaside places are unknown. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z The chief attraction that inspired Thoreau to make the trip was the primitiveness of the region. Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z To create his dermatology textbook, Dr. Rigel read many old textbooks, and he was struck by both the progress and primitiveness of treatment. Generation B: For Boomers, Sunblocks Come Late 2010-05-14T14:23:00Z We are that dependent on our treatments, in spite of the primitiveness of many of them. 6 Things You Should Know About Avandia 2010-02-25T20:43:00Z And I also imagine that there must be in Texas a delightful primitiveness of manners and good-fellowship. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things "One judges the primitiveness of a race by its cultural and technological institutions," Harkaway said, with a lofty smile. Once a Greech The unspoiled primitiveness of life at Dessau as it was when I was at school there till the age of twelve, would be extremely difficult to describe in all its details. My Autobiography A Fragment The Stonies, as you remark, are not a polished set, but we're on pretty good terms and it's their primitiveness that makes them interesting. Blake's Burden My friend was insisting, however, that the primitiveness, rather than the birth-pangs of a new view of the world, was nothing but "the last affectation of an over-civilized tradition." Rosinante to the Road Again Blake stopped the car before one of these houses—“cabins” their owners called them, though their primitiveness was all in that outer shell of bark. Counsel for the Defense “I fear you will detect much initial primitiveness in our methods of transportation,” he said. Red Men and White She accused me, however, of reveling in that primitiveness which is the last resort of the sophisticated—like the log cabins the city folk fashion for themselves when they get up in the Adirondacks. The Prairie Child When Pausanias traveled through Greece he found everywhere local cults which bore evidence of primitiveness, and obviously pertained to the clan gods of the various regions. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV All that they really have of likeness is an average condition of primitiveness: they have traveled just so far toward an understanding of the world they live in, and no farther. The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts Inhabiting the forests at the foot of the mountains are certain jungle peoples of extreme interest simply by reason of their primitiveness. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty The Indians lent us some mats; then we all wrapped ourselves up, and were soon asleep, notwithstanding the primitiveness of our couch. Adventures of a Young Naturalist As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 She was astonished at the primitiveness of her emotions. Mistress Anne In their ordinary life the Bahrein people still retain the primitiveness of the Bedouin. Southern Arabia Moreover he had no doubt of keeping her; his primitiveness appears again; with the first kiss he seemed to pass from slave to master. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House The small but powerfully built Moro calmly returned the stare of the four white men, his face passionless, his inert hands and thick bare feet curiously expressive of a primitiveness beyond conception. Terry A Tale of the Hill People The glimpse we had had of Tako’s feudal castle seemed to suggest primitiveness. The White Invaders The rarity of this oven at Tusayan, where so many of the constructions have retained a degree of primitiveness not seen elsewhere, is perhaps an additional evidence of its foreign origin. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 The strong, primitiveness of him was as alien to anything that was in Ruth as if the two had never seen each other before. Joyce of the North Woods Or a little far-off Tyrolean village, remote as the mountains from the life of the world—she would like that; the discomfort would be nothing to her, the primitiveness, the simplicity, everything. The Good Comrade They were wild, living in a savage primitiveness, and yet they reverenced a divinity with a conviction that amazed him. The Courage of Marge O'Doone In time to come, when Morocco has been purged of its offences of simplicity and primitiveness, the tourist shall accomplish in forty-eight hours the journey that demanded more than a month of last year's spring. Morocco The depth and primitiveness of this instinct would seem to cast a sort of psychological discredit in advance upon all radical forms of communistic utopia. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals There was a primitiveness, a certain hideous simplicity in the way Bennett had met the situation that filled her with wonder and with even a little terror and mistrust of him. A Man's Woman They detected in it a certain primitiveness, and having eaten further of the tree of knowledge, they were aware of its philosophical nakedness. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria I find, however, that I deny, what our author says that I assert, the primitiveness of contemporary savages. Modern Mythology If, as was shown in the introductory chapter, the Atharvan represents a geographical advance on the part of the Vedic Aryans, this fact cannot be ignored in estimating the primitiveness of the collection. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Let me read you a few passages from a poem which grew up under the true conditions of natural and primitive literature—remoteness, primitiveness of manners, and dependence on native traditions. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays The Stonies, as you remark, are not a polished set; but we're on pretty good terms, and it's their primitiveness that makes them interesting. The Intriguers These observations are noteworthy, though they clearly indicate, on the whole, that primitiveness in race is a very powerless factor without a cold climate. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Our scruples, the voluntary complication of our lives, seemed to constitute at least a disadvantage when measured against the primitiveness, perhaps the rather brutal simplicity, of our companions. The Collectors This law is a surplus of the figurative which amalgamates directly with the surplus of the unfigurative primitiveness in the phenomenon, and thus, precisely in the phenomenon, both are then no longer separable. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English Such universal acceptance must be taken as proof of its primitiveness, that is, of its being contained, explicitly or implicitly, in the original deposit of faith. Our Lady Saint Mary They called her "grandmotherly" sometimes, when a certain quaint primitiveness that was in her showed itself. We Girls: a Home Story I have lived on my Iowa farm from times of bleak wastes, robber bands, and savage primitiveness, to this day, when my state is almost as completely developed as Holland. Vandemark's Folly Wesley Dean, now in his blue overalls and working shirt, became a king in his own domain, a part of the fair primitiveness about them. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 “What I like about it is the struggle, the endeavor with one’s own hands, the primitiveness of it, the realness.” Love of Life and Other Stories Unable to sleep one night, he found himself thinking about and envying the caveman, who in his primitiveness was able to marvel at such commonplace phenomena as sunsets and thunderstorms. The Blue Lagoon: a romance The naked hunger and inevitability of his loving her, something strong and blind and ruthless in its primitiveness, made the hour almost terrible to her. Sons and Lovers Besides its low situation and its primitiveness, Hebron has a third peculiarity. The Book of Delight and Other Papers Other devices of similar primitiveness were resorted to in the course of the work, and at last she was finished. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men California had a population then that "inflicted" justice after a fashion that was simplicity and primitiveness itself, and could therefore admire appreciatively when the same fashion was followed elsewhere. Roughing It, Part 5. She commits suicide and he blames the primitiveness of the emergency services, sulks and kicks his precious record player. Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema In his later work he tends towards a greater simplicity, a certain "primitiveness" of outline, and a more concentrated style. Tales of the Wilderness True, I should regret the loss of primitiveness here, as I said at the outset, but when the lives of men are concerned, esthetics must go to the wall. The Book of Delight and Other Papers Let us rather repeat Audubon's own remark on realising how far short his drawings came of representing the birds themselves: "After all, there's nothing perfect but primitiveness." John James Audubon The lines of will had marked his face deeply, and this, coupled with a sternness and primitiveness, advertised a native indomitability, unswerving of purpose, and prone, when thwarted, to sullen cruelty. Children of the Frost He never lost the first fine virginal spontaneity of his native style, never weakened in the vigour of his thought or in the primitiveness of his expression. Mark Twain It spoils the primitiveness of the people, and gives them ideas below their station. Without Prejudice Curious jumble of modern and ancient city and village, primitiveness and the other thing. Following the Equator, Part 7 Would the nose of primitive man be so lacking in primitiveness? Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts "Because I want you to; and because I think you might make that much concession to my Western primitiveness and unceremoniousness." Patty's Butterfly Days In a dozen ways he could see her primitiveness, her kinship to the wilderness. Flower of the North A Modern Romance There is a feeling of affected primitiveness about most of them, particularly in a small canvas of a bouquet of flowers in a green vase, which is the acme of absurdity. The Galleries of the Exposition There was something primitive in her which spoke truth with a voice that was fearless; and yet that very primitiveness seemed closely allied with her purity. In the Wilderness If our friend has disappointed us at all, it is in the absence of that primitiveness which he led us to expect. Jeanne of the Marshes He is a very likable man, and there is little about his primitiveness that is repulsive. The Bontoc Igorot And in truth he looked it, a compound of strange and ancient races, what with his swarthy skin and the asymmetry and primitiveness of his features. When God Laughs: and other stories The primitiveness he might reveal, the profundities he might touch the surface of, the unexpected ends he might reach, suggested the opening of vistas. T. Tembarom I had endured them, but I had been too analytic of the faults of their primitiveness, of their almost ferocious devotion to the destiny of sex, to be enchanted with them. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Examples of similar primitiveness might be found almost everywhere, and the older generation seemed to imagine that a certain slipshod and dozing quality belonged to the very idea of Democracy. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography Not alone was she solace to his loneliness, but her primitiveness rejuvenated his jaded mind. The Faith of Men |
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