The border looked like someone's primitive attempt at hardscape, long disrupted by the elements.

But certainly we looked now on what was not even the most primitive attempt at providing shelter, but rather an area of ruin and decay.

These are primitive attempts to hook conventional games to popular movie symbols.

Had the trussing of Chancellor been a primitive attempt at symbolic patricide?

As I think about it now," she said, "it seemed to be a kind of primitive attempt to recognize my own creativity.

"Those were primitive attempts by comparison," he said.

Some of this seemed to be a primitive attempt to destroy the evidence of civilian killings.

Why had they abandoned illusion for a primitive attempt at realism?

The rehearsal demo was just a primitive attempt though, but the 7" actually still makes me tremble at times.

Actually it was a primitive attempt at passing off a filler as a science programme.