Nor do they evoke the same level of primal response that an apartment burglary would.

The blonde behind the counter shut up, but I screamed back, a sort of primal response without any thought behind it.

He'd never felt such an elemental, primal response to a woman.

Blindly, with the most primal response of all, he began to suck.

At precisely the same moment, he shuddered in a primal response.

He told himself she had every right to run, and didn't let his primal response to flight rule him.

Winter felt her hair stand up in a purely primal response to its pres- ence.

He attributed the show's success to the public's "primal response to live theater."

What is the primal response to an edifice?

What is the primal response to a stranger?