As she sees it, being taken care of by a man is a "primal" thing.

My mind, if I had one, simply balked at functioning beyond these primal things.

It had been almost some- thing primal, that right-or-flight adrenalin rush.

And if there was ever a time when we need to be focused on primal things, it is now.

But, you can't really tell people to stop having children - for many it's a primal thing, an essential life stage.

Like a primal thing, the Voice surfaced, and it was undeniable.

They felt exposed, naked to all the primal things the City shut out behind its walls, but for him only this was real.

It was an age of primal things - colors, odors, sights, sounds and sensations - so that even the wind felt different against my skin.

But what do you achieve, after all, by getting rid of such primal things as patriotism and religion?

It was hard to argue with her, blood soaked and nude, looking like some terrible primal things but we tried.