"primitive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Maybe it's just a primitive urge.
- Forcefully, he suppressed the primitive urge.
- Something gentler and much more subtle than the primitive urge to procreate-and infinitely more complex.
- Oddly enough, he felt quite certain that Modesty and Willie did not share his primitive urge for vengeance.
- It releases a primitive urge that lies dormant in our civilized selves.
- Her obvious skittishness over his advances had brought out the primitive male urge to chase fleeing prey.
- Driven by a primitive urge to prove her pledge, she set him free from his bondage and dropped to her knees before him.
- It appeals to childhood memory, a sense of fantasy and a primitive urge to see food as something to play with.
- Indeed, "for most analysts Freud's idea of a primitive urge towards death, of a primary masochism, was...bedevilled by problems".
- He merely obeyed the blind primitive urge to run - run - run until he fell exhausted.
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