His gruesome images are shocking, exerting a primal, voyeuristic appeal, and they allude to deep mysteries of death and physical existence.

But you can't, and you don't, and therein lies the primal appeal of armchair cooking.

To cerebral people, the primal appeal of a warrior-athlete is incalculable.

Singing has always had a primal appeal because it's a courtship display, whether it's done by a knight in 16th-century Bavaria or a lady in an 18th-century English drawing room.

They retain the primal appeal of classic comic situations while spicing them with subversive details that keep catching you off guard.

That's mostly because of the "primal appeal" of sharks, says Mike Quattrone, Discovery Channel's executive vice president and general manager.

But even ESPN knows it cannot ignore the almost primal appeal of local games in local markets.

Naked food, like naked people, has a primal appeal, an elemental immediacy.

Funkiness turns up, too, in his 2000 Old Vines merlot ($55), a velvety, jammy, spicy, meaty, alcoholic red with an elusively primal appeal.

The manufacture of consumer demand requires primal appeals, without creating any social disturbance.