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primeval forests.
Having dazzled us with this display of pure reason, he then appealed to the dark instincts of primeval blood and earth.
Study of interactions of biological macromolecules with mineral surfaces are of crucial interest either for understanding primeval metabolic processes or for detection of traces of living activities.
If such features constitute the "primeval soup," then, like normal targets in the search task, the primeval soup would also only be "seen" if it was being attended to.
Their simplest expression is the primeval phenomenon of popular humor, the cartwheel, which by the continual rotation of the upper and lower parts suggests the rotation of earth and sky.
Blind's primeval atoms of "measureless speed" fall into highly measured and exacting metrical patterns.
To complete the noble savage motif, we need only add the element of nature, of the primeval (precivilized, hence savage by default).
Free at last in the present time of their own voice, these women 'show everyone primeval femininity and its powers of control' (p. 93).
Again the eighteenth century is the sketchy before-picture, the primeval sludge out of which modern, industrial society emerges.
