| Russian tourists are often shockingly messy, perhaps because of an atavistic sense that there is always more land to move on to. |
| Indulging your atavistic selfish-gene impulse to replicate is neither rational nor moral. |
| These atavistic hind legs are nothing less than throwbacks to a totally pre-whale stage of their existence, some fifty million years ago. |
| What if the attraction is an atavistic throwback to the prehistoric human fascination with telling tales? |
| But the attempt to define and punish a category of speech as obscene is an atavistic vestige from a distant era. |
| Religion is pictured as old-fashioned, atavistic and dogmatic, defending superstition by burning scientific martyrs at the stake. |
