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  • n  a wild or unrefined state
  • n  a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children

  • Tut-tutting about American primitivism mixes easily with that other sport, eye rolling about religious primitivism.
  • The Sheltering Sky, with its mixture of emotional nausea, intellectual despair and desert primitivism, will come close to justifying their hopes.
  • The Museum of Modern Art traces the sources of primitivism Of all the questions posed by modern art, none are more intriguing than what it took, and why, from tribal.
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  • Bill Leonard in Dallas Baptist Standard
    In Baptist Ways: A History, Bill Leonard noted, "Biblicism led many Baptists to adhere to a strenuous 'primitivism,' a belief that the true church in any era is the one that best replicates the New Testament church."
  • Mladjan Dinkic in Jamaica Observer
    It is high time to ban the Radicals,said Finance Minister Mladjan Dinkic, a top G17 Plus official. "The Radicals are chauvinists, they spread hatred and primitivism. We have to stop that."

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