«When you tear into something like that, you get to fulfill some very primal desire that you don't even know you had,» says Sybert, who loves the lamb rib for two, the most - ordered menu item at Tail Up Goat. (bonappetit.com)
So too did Jacques Barzun, in The House of Intellect, articulate the difference between intelligence and what R. R. Reno has called «urgent feelings and primal desires.» (firstthings.com)
But a bigger problem is a villain with seemingly no raison d'etre beyond a primal desire for power and destruction. (slantmagazine.com)