atavistic

A part of her had wondered just how atavistic these people actually were.

There is something quite atavistic about a group of people sitting down together to a good dinner.

I recall thinking, in one atavistic moment, what a great story this could be.

Better to get the hell of this atavistic state at high speed.

One look at him, and everyone else felt an immediate atavistic need to run for the trees.

Far be it from me to speak for the atavistic mind."

The fundamentalists seemed engaged in an atavistic return to the past.

It is an atavistic feeling common to most men.

Something rather atavistic deep down inside glowed with pleasure at his words.

Is it something atavistic, a phylogenetic return to the sea?

Why is such a young president acting so atavistic?

The series has its comic moments, but it is somewhat atavistic.

I fought back an atavistic urge to turn on the headlights.

They are not professionals who earn a living from this atavistic sport.

All other Western countries have given it up as an atavistic barbarity.

The urge is not so much a violation as an atavistic response to any closed door.

His means of revelation involved making the relationship between the figure and its surrounding space a charged, atavistic one.

But Mother came out of her atavistic daze and was very helpful.

There was an atavistic excitement in the situation, though.

In this way the genre is atavistic; nation building and tradition are its themes.

She looked to be unconscious, but some atavistic instinct told Archer something was wrong.

David Duke is the first, but he won't be the last, political atavistic consequence.

You should be warned, two are atavistic and highly dangerous."

The film is about atavistic Muslim practice of male polygamy.

Because she was terrified, the same sort of atavistic process was at work in her.