| Yugoslavia seems to have lapsed into a type of atavism, at odds with the intended political direction of the new Europe. |
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| The Taliban's blinkered atavism, for example, is abhorrent to nearly everyone else. |
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| Imitation of the West seemed wiser than atavism, not least among Japanese, who in the 1930s dressed pan-Asianism in wolf's clothing. |
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| It becomes difficult to understand this stubborn atavism, but there you have it. |
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| Today, such loose-leaf is the atavism that disrupts all those bureaucratic workflows that are allegedly already electronic. |
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| Certain people, no doubt through historical atavism, would like to turn them into an inquisition process. |
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| Scientists believe a mutation caused the ancient trait to reassert itself as a form of atavism. |
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| A talented but under-employed 1990s politician, more wonk than warrior, stumbles from the comfort of Islington into the atavism of the Balkans and decides in disgust to put on a tin hat and issue a call to arms. |
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| As a consequence, the properties of our intentional and empirical knowledge impose their characteristics, as by atavism, upon our lived reflexive knowledge which we have of ourselves. |
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| But the choice of her subjects which revolves around German cultural issues and the way of treating them testifies to a certain atavism in her thought. |
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| I have even read in a book of criminology that the tramp is an atavism, a throw-back to the nomadic stage of humanity. |
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| By atavism, Isaac accepts and wastes away. |
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