atavistic

• I mean, trees are all right in their place, but there's some kind of atavistic fear connected with deep, dark woods at night and I was feeling it. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 02 - August 2000
• Likewise, spending an hour or two wandering rows of nearly endless varieties of apple trees or a slope covered in lines of tidy blueberry bushes with the sun on your face, looking for ripe fruit with your kids, or even a date, is the kind of atavistic, wholesome good time that Wii hasn't gotten close to touching yet. —  Baltimore City Paper
• By which I mean: If I decide to fork over a few bucks for the Sunday Globe or Times these days, rather than reading it online, I am deciding to pay extra for the (atavistic) pleasure of holding an actual newspaper in my hands. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
• It's the content available therein -- and the (atavistic) privilege of interacting with that content the way I do when I hold something I hold in my hands, as opposed to when I'm staring at something on a screen in front of me -- that's making me give up my lunch money. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
• DFW's Sentence Or you could call it atavistic, a throwback. —  Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed

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