Sitting face to face with a Satmar man schooling her in atavistic Satmar rules was the last place she wanted to be.
These councils have been seeking amendments in the Hindu Marriage Act to support their atavistic views.
These atavistic triggers, however, aren't very satisfying explanations taken alone.
It is only an atavistic phenomenon, the return to a former state.
The criminal is an atavistic being, a relic of a vanished race.
This is of great importance in view of the atavistic origin of crime.
Citizen Howard Temple-Tracy is a dangerous, atavistic, evil genius.
Perhaps it is atavistic—this desire to rest and swing in a hamaca.
Thus there was no progeny to inherit their atavistic tendencies.
Because she was terrified, the same sort of atavistic process was at work in her.
