Dubliner Keith Ridgway's impressive first novel takes up all the familiar elements : troglodytic patriarchial bullying, the silent suffering of oppressed women, the rebellion of sons, the crushing weight of a conservative religious / political / social system.
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As it was an article of the Voormish faith that this deity, whom they knew as Tsathoggua, made his abode in lightless caverns situated far beneath the earth, their adoption of a troglodytic mode of existence was to some extent primarily symbolic.
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"This is not revisionist, it's retrograde or troglodytic, " said Eric Foner, the Columbia University historian, whose books include " Reconstruction : America's Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877 " ( HarperCollins, 1989 ).
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Afterward, local rumor remembers him as " the freak on the tractor, the corncrib fascist, the troglodytic goatroper from just north of the river-- the one who rarely spoke a word to anyone but who, nevertheless, unfailingly succeeded in alienating, revolting and terrifying just about every living being he came in contact with ."
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And Justin Kaplan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain who says President Bush has a " troglodytic " approach to social and economic problems, was so surprised by his invitation from the White House to a symposium on Twain that he told the aide in the first lady's office he would have to get back to her.
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Writing in The Independent, Meic Stephens said of Evans work : There is perhaps something troglodytic about his miners, even when they take part in hunger marches or, in scenes that call to mind Stanley Spencer's Cookham, when they ascend in swarms to heaven at the Last Trump, but the painter's sympathy for their lot gives them an iconic power .
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The town of Chinon also offers an unusual variety of perspectives, allowing one to take its measure in several ways : from the bank opposite the castle, or river by boat, from which one can fully see the architectural presence and importance of its castle and town; from the interior of the historic town itself; and from the rocky outcrop, either from the castle itself, or along the high narrow roads along it that lead past semi-troglodytic homes and caves to the chapel of Saint Radegonde, giving a panoramic view of the historic town and the valley that opens up on the other side of the river.
