primitiveness

Qutb was particularly exercised by what he saw as the "primitiveness" of American values, not least in matters of sex.

Lady Gaga Versus Mideast Peace Bret Stephens 2010

For instance, he paused in the middle of reading his argument that archaeological searches for "primitiveness" were useless in the search for origins because all "primitive" cultures represented a decline from a star-going culture.

Flux Tales of Human Futures Card, Orson Scott 1990

She accused me, however, of reveling in that primitiveness which is the last resort of the sophisticated -- like the log cabins the city folk fashion for themselves when they get up in the Adirondacks.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

a certain "primitiveness" of outline, and a more concentrated style.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

I was suddenly struck by the primitiveness of my surroundings, as if this town had stubbornly decided to stay mired in the past.

Where I find inspiration … 2011

And we see this principle at work throughout the Bible: the striking contrast between the primitiveness of the poet and the profundity of the poem, between the smallness of the singer and the greatness of the song, between the absence of human sophistication and the presence of divine sophia, divine wisdom.

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

What I like about it is the struggle, the endeavor .... the primitiveness of it, the realness. '

Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010

"What I like about it is the struggle, the endeavor with one's own hands, the primitiveness of it, the realness."

A DAY'S LODGING 2010

Not alone was she solace to his loneliness, but her primitiveness rejuvenated his jaded mind.

THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

I had endured them, but I had been too analytic of the faults of their primitiveness, of their almost ferocious devotion to the destiny of sex, to be enchanted with them.

CHAPTER II 2010