It's called 'primitivism' when the ancient source comes from the apostolic age. From Wordnik.com. [URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion] Reference
Modern primitivism is now officially out. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: March 18, 2001 - March 24, 2001 Archives] Reference
The black film experience hasn't seen this kind of primitivism since Oscar Micheaux. From Wordnik.com. [New York Press] Reference
'primitivism' would be put permanently and deservedly to rest. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Cultural primitivism came to the fore in the Greek. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Here his cultural primitivism shows itself strongly. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Drama (London, 1906); for primitivism in art, see Robert. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
And this phenomenon still prevails amidst our primitivism. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEECH, RESOLUTION CLOSE EDUCATION CONGRE] Reference
Cynicism was the most extreme form of cultural primitivism. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Chronological primitivism today has lost most of its force. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
As a result of this search new concepts of primitivism arose. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Antediluvian tradi - tions are subsidiary variants of primitivism. From Wordnik.com. [LONGEVITY] Reference
He puts this cultural primitivism to special use in arguing that the Law of. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Back-to-basics primitivism is not a force that's going to move anything forward. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Mohr: New Reissues Prove Kraftwerk Is the Most Important Band Ever] Reference
It's the same damned primitivism that we Westerners have been concocting for years. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Blankenship: The Seven Least Essential Movies of the Next Seven Weeks] Reference
The partisans of the ancients were obviously accepting a form of cultural primitivism. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
One other strain of cultural primitivism should be mentioned, though it was short-lived. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
It was libertarian ideas that lifted us out of primitivism & allow us to live in society. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Bad Logic and Reasoning About Taxes] Reference
With Columbus we are at the beginning of the Renaissance and modern views of primitivism. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
OpEdNews - Article: Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it's too late?. From Wordnik.com. [Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it's too late?] Reference
Antirationalism was an inherent part of cultural primitivism as it appeared in pagan thought. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
In English letters Wordsworth in his earlier verse illustrated the same sentimental primitivism. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
Now, the primitivism of the 9th Century are to be no match for the progress of the 21st Century. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009] Reference
This form of cultural primitivism contained within itself an element of chronological primitivism. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
The first single from their second album, Heathen Child is swampy dimbulb primitivism in excelsis. From Wordnik.com. [This week's new singles] Reference
Hence what follows attempts to be no more than a sketch of the various kinds of modern primitivism. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
He definitely rejects chronological primitivism, for the first stage of history was far from the best. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
This race is not praised by Vergil nor does he show any sympathy for cultural primitivism in this place. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
One form of chronological primitivism locates the best period of history at the beginning of each cycle. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Thus the hard primitivism of Juvenal is mitigated by certain features of the more idyllic versions of history. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Ironically, Buckley declares himself and white men advanced through embracing the abject primitivism of white tribalism. From Wordnik.com. [Leonce Gaiter: Tea Partiers Battle Racism Claims -- Far Too Late] Reference
Chronological primitivism in occidental culture is found in two forms, that of classical antiquity and that of Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Striking a note of hard primitivism, Ovid points out that the first men were satisfied with wild fruits and berries along with acorns. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
All the evils both of human nature and of the Iron Age will disap - pear and the regime of soft primitivism will once more be instituted. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Yet, as might be expected, the hard primitivism of his appeal is based on the need for self-humiliation rather than on the Law of Nature. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Both types of people were highly admired for one reason or the other but what one might call exoticism is very different from primitivism. From Wordnik.com. [NATURE] Reference
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