Now mindless to everything but her primal sense of self-preservation, Julia shrieked and hammered at his back.

Odor perception is a primal sense.

"Smell is the most primal sense in humans," says Page, playing those hoodoo, you-do romantic riffs again.

Shot in black-and-white, the movie beautifully sustains a vision of the West as wild in the most primal and scary sense of the word.

Strains of grief and utter despair, of loss in the most primal sense, were joined by a thin strand of hope.

The hounds raced ahead, guided by primal senses.

At least not in any primal sense.

Peter jumped off again and came at Natasha, but there was no panic, no fear, only a primal sense of sibling love.

"And us, what sort of primal sense do we engender?"

And making it so generates an almost primal sense of accomplishment.