How to pronounce“atavist”in English

There was an atavistic relief to this, and her eyes watered from the pleasure.

We have gone in and found the atavistic gene.

And so I think there is in us a kind of atavistic, granular need to help raise the babies.

Yet, somehow we feel this atavistic desire to gather in large groups and run for two to five hours. So, my speculation -- it's not fact; it's

an orgy of pain lasting half an hour opponents of bull fighting say it is unnecessary atavistic barbarism supporters say it's an art

squash it and try and make it into something so he's appealing to a very primary impulse something quite atavistic and I think it's a big insight

So to make a cool bird into a cool dinosaur, what we're doing now is looking for atavistic genes.