Blaney finds the song to be "a concise expression of Lennon's primal experience."

Experience - primal experience - has taught him that the truth does not win on its own merits; the market for falsehood is just too powerful.

For those of us who grew up in the movie generation, film is a primal experience, and the movie theater, a place of worship.

For the most part, the exhibition affords something close to a primal experience.

It was one of the most primal experiences I've ever gone through.

But there is no reason that children should have a monopoly on this primal, wonderful experience.

He appears to want primal experiences which are meaningful and cruel.

Interpretation of impressions follows chains of association following from this primal sensory experience.

It represented "an intensive rehearsal of the primal Dutch experience: the struggle to survive rising waters."