Like high priests in a primitive society, only a small group of people knew how to speak to the machine.

It smacked a little too much of a primitive society.

This primitive society had never encountered such a weapon before.

Primitive societies deal much better with death than we do.

You don't find either of those qualities much in a primitive society.

They had certainly been fast, incredibly so for an ancient and primitive society like this one.

A distant star: a group of scientists sent to examine its primitive society.

Teheran, by contrast was a poor and primitive society in those days.

Our homeland, on the other hand, is still struggling to emerge from a primitive society.

This is not a primitive society making progress toward mechanization.