I interviewed many of the celebrated players backstage, and not one of them complained about the heat or the rather primitive surroundings.

Judy had once claimed that nothing short of a hurricane could loosen Margo from her Manhattan moorings and carry her to these primitive surroundings.

Despite the relatively primitive surroundings, the team is delighted to have somewhere warm and dry to perform life-saving operations.

She'd adapted well to their primitive surroundings.

Cultivating such plants on a sufficient scale for worldwide needs may be difficult in primitive surroundings where the plant grows naturally and impossible elsewhere.

Miss Barrow was stunned to find herself in such rural, primitive surroundings.

She was especially lovely , here, somehow enhanced by the primitive surroundings.

Bearing a dignity that belied their primitive surroundings, a short, wiry man rose from his rickety chair.

"You appear to be surviving life in these primitive surroundings."

No matter that she'd lived in far more primitive surroundings than he had for most of her life.