The unlucky person who is executed appears more like a victim of a primitive rite of sacrifice than an instrument of a coherent social policy.

Were his reactions those of an anthropologist watching some primitive religious rite?

It seemed possible that her murder might have been related to some primitive rite or revenge plot-an old family score to settle.

The tradition has its beginnings in primitive agricultural rites and the ancient music of shrines and temples.

They were marked all over with half-healed scars from the barbed-wire, red zigzag patterns as though decorated for some primitive rite.

I believe it's some sort of primitive rite of passage.

The author has also described a primitive rite of the Gujars which he accidentally stumbled upon while exploring the area.

The primitive rites of "Fear Factor" and "Survivor."

Weston emphasized to Eliot that not only dramas, but poetry also derived from primitive rites.

The reader is faced with a renunciation both of the sexuality bound up with primitive rites and, for the moment at least, of modern sexuality.