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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. -- Don DeLillo
Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect. -- Howard Blum
Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country. -- Penelope Lively
I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. -- John Keegan
I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of that. But if somebody comes near my kids, the atavistic crazy lion comes out. -- Stephen Moyer
In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help. -- Neel Mukherjee
Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic. -- Ilana Mercer
I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns. -- Keith Murray
In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the logic of the most severe, rigorous and atavistic stupidity. -- William C. Brown

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