0 happening because of a very old habit from a long time ago in human history, not because of a conscious decision or because it is necessary now:
My inversion of what might be properly termed "atavistic" has a conciliatory point.
Both artists paint teeth to represent, not just wildness or loss of self-control, but the atavistic, charnel, carnal, libidinous, ferocious core of human nature.
Many like to see its communal peace as a triumph of modernity over an atavistic past.
Silence holds both an attraction and an atavistic fear.
Conventional views of such high reactivity suggest that it is an atavistic and pathogenic legacy of an evolutionary past in which threats to survival were more prevalent and severe.
True, to be involved to such an extent in this subject means that this tendency exists in the composer's mind, or at least in its atavistic layers.
Nationalism, which some had written off as either an atavistic reaction to modernity or the birth-pangs of modernity itself, has returned in new and varied forms.
Rather than a vision of technical marvels, he sees an urban ruin, an atavistic space inhabited by people whose lives are little better than those of troglodytes.
