Painting genre of Grandma Moses

Usage examples of primitivism.

We find such primitivism enchanting because it often evokes a people who really believe in magic.

We are aesthetically and emotionally drawn to primitivism, but not economically or politically.

They also believed in reducing the city to total primitivism, only they were willing to do it in less painful stages.

Their philosophy seems to be a mix of pre-Liberation radical feminism and the environmental primitivism of the eighties.

I watch, amazed, through the shards of plastiglass in an abandoned storage room, my fingers at my mouth, teeth to nails, reverting to primitivism as the young people overpower the robo-cop by the airlock.

For all the relative primitivism of its technology, Grayson had maintained a large-scale space presence for more than half a millennium.

Many JNA officers brought the primitivism and propensity for violence that they began to show from their home regions -- most were from the Dinaric mountains.

Church said that the people who had checked out during the water crisis were coming back from the Francis Drake, Casa Encantada, Hogan's Fancy, and Apache Marina, annoyed by primitivisms they had encountered there, and lured by the food, the location, and the beaches of Paperman's hotel.

In that primitivism was her great strength, for it allowed the back door of her mind to keep open, as it were, to the rumor and movement of ancestral powers and instinctive agencies.