How to Use primitivism in a Sentence

primitivism

noun

• What attracts them is the primitivism, redeemed by charm.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
• An instruction on joining us in our vision for the future, a return to primitivism.
  — Megan Armstrong, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2017
• The Left has contempt for nationalism, seeing in it intellectual and moral primitivism at best, and the road to fascism at worst.
  — Dennis Prager, National Review, 12 Sep. 2017
• Sonic Youth fans will be pleased to hear the elements of scuzz noise and high-art primitivism of that band injected into attitudinal riffs with sing-along charm of Talon's song.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The wide selection of Nadelman items alone — perhaps the peak of Kirstein’s often erratic taste in the visual arts — is worth the visit to this gathering: modernism meets primitivism meets classicism.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
• A lot of students learn about history through art, and the narrative of anything related to Africa and Polynesia and indigenous America is still laden with this notion of primitivism.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2017
• Some, inspired by Netflix’s recent thriller about Ted Kaczynski, have embraced the Unabomber’s nihilist primitivism.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 24 Sep. 2019
• What attracts them all is the formula’s stubborn, sentimental primitivism, redeemed by charm.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
• But the argument that a billionaire’s billions are a self-evident credential for national leadership is modern primitivism at its purest.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 15 Oct. 2019
• Rather than a defense of chest-beating primitivism, the conclusion emphasizes the risks of male self-assertion untethered from purpose and responsibility.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 3 Nov. 2021
• This and the political and military primitivism of some adversaries (e.g., the Islamic State) are reshaping the environment in which airpower operates, and the purposes of this power.
  — George Will, National Review, 19 July 2017
• As outlandish as Luhan may sound, neither her primitivism nor her spiritualism was particularly unusual in her time.
  — Rebecca Panovka, The New Yorker, 2 June 2021
• Fringe beliefs such as anarcho-primitivism or eco-fascism have become familiar ideologies, and figures like Fuentes possess cultish influence.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2021
• Curtis, meanwhile, was inclined to invent scenarios, expunging inconvenient details in order to emphasize a concept of primitivism.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 13 June 2017
• Lacking Pippin’s political edge, primitivism and variety, Kane’s more conventional pictures, though sometimes fussy with details, consistently achieve more spatial clarity and light.
  — Lance Esplund, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024