Meanings of primitive savagery in English

The orgasmic discharge from his body was primitive savagery, enrapturing every cell.

A primitive savagery spoke, intensified by the refinements of Cavalier blood.

Are we, then, to return to a state of primitive savagery?

The very beginning of our modern right-handedness goes back, indeed, to the most primitive savagery.

In fact, Scotland, as regards music, had at that period not yet emerged from its state of primitive savagery.

She gasped at the bigness of it; it spoke of the vastness of the world and of the world's primitive savagery.

But there are groups-someof them apparently not the result of retrogression-whichshow the traits of primitive savagery with some fidelity.

His heart leaped with primitive savagery of love, and every fibre in him rebelled fiercely against the decrees and limitations of modern courtship.

West Europe was, in 1903, quite ignorant of the state of primitive savagery from which the South Slavs were but beginning to rise.

About them indeed, notwithstanding their primitive savagery which in its qualities much resembled that of other Polynesians, there was a very curious air of antiquity.

And truly the details which Mrs. Robbie cited were calculated to suggest that her rival's hospitality was a reversion to the customs of primitive savagery.