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• s  serving as an essential component
• s  having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
  primal eras before the appearance of life on earth

• Whether a patient who had just suffered such primal trauma could even have granted the informed consent necessary for surgery is questionable.
• Of all those primal horror homilies, Pinocchio is tops for its blending of the animator's craft and a themethat a child is not human until he can feel loss and act with .
• Wagnerian, mythic and muddy, it's something vast and strange being born, like a planet being fashioned out of primal elements and impersonal forces.

• cardinal
• central
• fundamental
• key
• aboriginal
• primeval
• primaeval
• primordial

News & Articles

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• At the Post: The apprentice gains her first victory
  Last Saturday, apprentice jockey Janelle Campbell earned the first victory of her career aboard Primal Humor in the fifth race before an exuberant crowd on hand for the Belmont Stakes.
  June 15, 2013 - The Daily Item
• Got a Notice from the IRS? Don't Panic
  Getting a piece of mail from the IRS is enough to cause anyone’s hands to shake and primal instincts to surface. The letter could be concerning a change to the tax return due to mathematical errors, a notice that the return is up for audit, or a bill among other things.
  June 14, 2013 - FOX Business Small Business Center
• Silent Lions’ fuzzy Friday
  Silent Lions… Garage rock gutted funk from the basement of Alpha Centauri – a primal, grimacing, riffy beast of a bass line storming the groove gates with its rhythmic compatriot – the drums – like a flame-wreathed armored-truck sides-slapdash-painted with demolition derby numbers, colliding and cavorting and cutting up a new, fresh take on… what would you cinch it down to? Space-rock ? Call-it ...
  June 12, 2013 - Detroit Metro Times

Quotes

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• Chris Jericho in The Associated Press
  As a kid, you want to stand and drop eggs or GI Joes off the building and see if they fall apart. That's the primal instinct that makes the show so interesting,Jericho said.
• Nicole Kidman in FOXNews
  Kidman said she experienced "whatever that primal thing is, the need and desire to keep her very protected," and vowed that she would not expose her to public scrutiny at least until she grew up.
• Cameron Diaz in Loving Links
  The news provider quotes her as saying: "I'm always travelling for c**k :You've got to go where it is. I'm primal on an animalistic level, kind of like, 'Bonk me over the head, throw me over your shoulder. You man, me woman'."