Sentences with phrase «like primitive»

In the living room, I'm so thankful for the awesome Craig's List finds like the primitive hutch and Gustavian sofa.

Yu Honglei's «Fat Mouse» looks like a primitive land infected by space - age aesthetics.Three spheres on tripods, each 1.5 meters in diameter (Mud Ball 1, Mud Ball 2, Mud Ball 3, 2014) recall Eero Aarnio's famous «Ball Chair,» yet possesses the texture of crude pottery.

His often dark paintings resemble those found within caves, and as such they also often contain symbols like primitive tools, flames and livestock.

They track the process of articulating a personal language, the crystallization of thought, like a primitive manuscript, each black knot represents a letter or a word in an abstract flow of sentences upon the white background.

It is painted orange and punctuated, like a primitive ladder, with five short, horizontal pieces of canvas - wrapped wood, each painted white with a portion of a blue triangle».

It was really good at the time, rather like primitive wood carving.

The horses, along with fragmented body parts (heads, eyes, and hands) are almost totemic, like primitive symbols, and serve as formal elements through which Rothenberg investigated the meaning, mechanics, and essence of painting.

Tcherepnin also contributes Gallery Bells (2016), a diagonally oriented string of paper cups, lids, straws, and excess packaging that dangle from the gallery ceiling like a primitive alarm system.

Work on Polaris had likely been going on for about a year or so when work on NX started, so it is in theory possible that they said to AMD «Hey, we like this primitive discard accelerator thing, can we have it on our planned 28nm chip?».

As it degrades and cleaves off sulphur molecules, it actually makes the smell of cat urine get stronger over several hours — like a primitive timer!

It functions like the primitive e-readers of over a decade ago.

The steering is almost painfully heavy, and like some primitive form of stability control, it gets bicep - bustingly heavier the harder you corner.

One lesson from the theory of disruptive innovation is that a service that looks like a primitive and incomplete offering in the early years will improve over time, so incumbent organizations shouldn't discount it.

The world mirrors his loneliness, wielding technology like primitive man wielded fire — holding on for dear life.

She makes you feel the dirt and toil staged against a backdrop of poetic landscapes that look like primitive paintings ready for a gallery retrospective.

It is like a primitive form of ultrasound: the sound vibrations of the gong move through your bodymind clearing blocks, releasing tension and bringing harmony to your whole body.

«We just sort of stand there scratching our heads like primitive people who've never seen a car before, saying, «The car's not working now, I wonder what's wrong with it».»

The next step, Hud says, will be to see whether this two - component assembly can be made to encode information like a primitive gene and to evolve toward the structure of RNA.

«But lots of other things have cup eyes, like primitive chordates, molluscs and certain types of worms.»

«At the same time, like primitive civilisations offering up sacrifices to appease the gods, many governments, including Australia's former Labor government, used the biased research to pursue «green» gesture politics.

Such «nonsense» sounds like primitive gospel, to hope about a cross, a death, about suffering, and to find in those dying struggles courage to live yet another day.

Rufus T. Firefly They're more like primitive tribesmen throwing their spears at the passing jetliners.

Not exact matches

This may come as a shock, but organizational constructs like tribes, societies, and companies are not the result of high - level intelligence but of primitive survival impulses reinforced by neurotransmitters in the brain's ancient limbic system.

However, recent «primitive use cases» like Pokémon Go and the rise of face filters amid other forms of graphical enhancements to photos have changed his mind.

He echoes that sentiment in our interview, defending the company's primitive inventory system and decision to, until recently, accept only cash by saying: «Philosophically, we like to keep things simple.»

We don't have to like the fact, and most people when polled are eager to say that they are above such primitive appeals to rancor and panic.

Religion is like webbed toes and the sixth finger — evolution will hopefully eradicate one's primitive ability to put blind faith in a God who doesn't want it and doesn't need it.

The emergence of Evangelical Catholicism is a Spirit - led development reflecting the cultural contingencies of history, like other such evolutions over the past two millennia: the evolution from the primitive Church to the Church of the Fathers; the evolution from patristic Catholicism to medieval Catholicism; the development of Counter-Reformation Catholicism (the Church in which anyone over sixty today was raised) from medieval Catholicism.

To me my knowledge at the present, we have no idea and won't really ever know, what primitive dna looks like because we do not have any way of getting a blood sample from millions of years ago.

I wish these primitive ancient religions would run their course so mankind can get down to solving real problems like over population and hunger and non poluting energy...

Second, the probability of primitive life appearing may be reasonably high, but the probability of that life developing intelligence like ours may be very low.

A new Rousseau, like all copies only a pale version of the old, he preaches the gospel of the new primitive man who, naturally on a higher level, must return to prehistoric tribal existence in the «global village».

(I should like to repeat the note which I inserted in Weiss's History of Primitive Christianity, 1, 28: «If we are to conceive of a spiritual «body,» it must nevertheless be completely «spiritual.»

The age - long and still influential Christian doctrine of bodily resurrection thus goes back to primitive Hebrew behaviorism, which always conceived soul as a function of the material organism and never, like Greek philosophy, conceived immortality as escape from the imprisoning flesh.

Nevertheless we still leave it to grow as best it can, hardly tending it at all, like those wild plants whose fruits are plucked by primitive peoples in their forests.

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

You like Mr. Romney and Mr. Hitler (I do not believe you are a Hitler only pointing out that the most imfamous dictators understood the primitive natures and how to take advantage) fully understand that you will succeed in capturing converts only if you appeal to their primitive fears.

The present setting of this saying is editorial, as are all settings in the tradition, and in this instance the setting is at least as old as Q, since both Matthew and Luke use the saying and its setting in different ways: Matthew to interpret the exorcisms of Jesus as a present manifestation of the eschatological future, «spirit» being «in primitive Christianity, like the «first - fruits» (Rom.

While Jesus» world was in some respects very primitive in comparison with today's, in its fundamental temptations to the human spirit it was amazingly like ours.

Concept V, like concept IV, relies on lines as primitive and regards points as derived.

In his essay «The Golden Rule in the Light of New Insight,» Harvard psychoanalyst Erik Erikson comments: «systematic students of ethics often indicate a certain disdain for this all - too - primitive ancestor of more logical principles; and Bernard Shaw found the rule an easy target: don't do to another what you would like to be done by, he warned, because his tastes may differ from yours» (Insight and Responsibility [Norton, 1964], p. 226).

To critics of this type its stories sound like quaint old myths that are rather interesting vestiges of a primitive society but of no particular significance.

It feels like a carrot dangled to primitive people that were struggling with basic subsistence, with little hope of a comfortable life in this world.

Our primitive ancestors three millennia ago lived in an animistic realm of nature - spirit - wind gods, cloud - spirits, and the like.

But like sense perception and consciousness itself, religious experience is an emergent from basic physical relations that exist on more primitive levels throughout nature.

you don't think that so called scientific results are skewered... or that the primitive machines that we use to discover our universe are woefully incapable of plumbing the depths of knowledge that an all wise creator has put in place... science is like some guys throwing dice and hoping it comes up sevens on consecutive throws... get over yourself

But what the mind can imagine in this primitive and picture — like manner does not exhaust our subjective repertoire; a neglected form, prominent within private consciousness, is of primary importance to our question.

Your arguments try to nullify all the good work done by the Ahmadi Prophet Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to take the violent jihad out of Islam like a malignant cancer and transform it from a primitive, violent version into a modern and respectable religion.

If you don't like the rules, go back where you came from and take your primitive culture with you.

The main religion of the West is just like the west - selfish - brutish - primitive - with an inherent hatred for community, family, and charity.