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Stravinsky, whom Scriabin felt was little more than excellently warmed-over Rimsky-Korsakov, turned to rhythm in his “The Rite of Spring” as the device for unleashing our underlying primitivistic impulses.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2020

There are these artists now doing this neo-ancient, primitivistic work with the figure, like Thomas Houseago or Huma Bhabha, that Rachel was doing a long time ago.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2011

The new education is consistently primitivistic in the latitude which it allows to whim and in its indulgence of indolence.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker