She's terrified, but compelled by the mating rituals of man in his primal innocence.

A week later, hunters killed the lion; its 7-week-old cub, all floppy feet and sweet face and primal innocence, got a television spot.

Through all of this, the protagonists seem to drift in an aura of primal innocence.

While the painting seems to express an Arcadian vision of primal innocence, it could also be a wry comment on the rise of tourism in the south.

He had seen primal innocence in those eyes, and a promise of resurrection.

Eleanor Agnew's lovely memoir of this movement of primal innocence is at once honest and hilarious.

There even exists a subculture (the dream apes) whose ancestors bred out the capacity for speech and some of the higher brain-functions, apparently in order to attain a primal innocence and rapport with nature.

The characters and incidents are light constructs meant to support a yearning for a return to some primal innocence; unfortunately they more often evoke childish wistfulness, a much shallower emotion.

But because the women play with such sincerity and enthusiasm, they bring rock back to a primal innocence that is nearly extinct among their peers in the United States.

Campbell, musing on the appeal of clowns, suggests that children see in them reflections of a primal innocence.