How To Use Chthonic In A Sentence
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It's a falling off sort of place where the ‘real’ slides into a chthonic state of being.
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The aborigines of the country, driven like the Bhils and other autochthonic Indians, into the eastern and south-eastern wilds bordering upon the ocean.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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[701] The idea that this number was "chthonic" and a monopoly of the Sibylline utterances was started by
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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Words Containing One Basic Root canine cynic ` dog 'febrile pyretic ` fever' lingual glossal ` tongue 'peculiar idiotic ` one's own, private' popular demotic ` people 'position thesis ` place, put' rabies mania ` madness 'regal basilic ` king' risible gelastic ` laugh 'scientism gnosticism ` know' stellar astral ` star 'terrene chthonic ` earth' testis orchid ` testis '
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
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The chthonic Dick Whitman still lurks in the shadows, threatening to resurface when others discover the secret box of relics.
Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4, Episode 6 -- Dissolving Identity and the Female Gaze
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For Apollo presents life in a way that is tolerable, through exclusion of the chthonic depths; while Dionysus ignores nothing, forcing us to face the fundamental terrors of existence.
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Rational Review
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And Antonio spent one portion of his life transforming a rocky hillside in Barcelona into a labyrinth of walkways, serpentine retaining walls, small ovalesque grottoes, a typography of earth and mind, a physical rendering of flamenco patterns, flying lines, and planes kerned in kinetic chthonic exclamations!
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If I said I knew Edinburgh, I meant its chthonic parts, the wynds and stairs that deliver you quickly where you're going.
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Recall that legal procedures of the chthonic tradition were essentially open ones; there were no barriers such as the praetor of roman law or the chancellor (keeper of the writs) of the common law.
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Is there, or is there not, a brassbound plot to lead a chthonic jihad against those who oppose Mr. Livingston, organized through the years by what I call recalcitrant bludgers?
White Mob Disrupts Black Meeting
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In temperament and style DeLillo is Apollonian, a secret sharer with his technocrats and obsessives, whereas Pynchon is chthonic, in touch with darker gods.
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Some are literally just snakes, but others are used according to Biblical symbolism to show the chaotic and chthonic powers of Satan in conflict with the saints, angels or Christ.
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Having said this, we must hedge in favor of Miss Jordan's most autochthonic Miss Kittie, so young
Different Girls
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Ingersoll traces all images of the dragon back to Tiamat, the watery, primordial goddess slain by Marduk in the Enuma Elish, a Babylonian version of the combat myth; as they appear in various myths around the world, dragons are typicallly associated with water, though in different contexts, so that some are rain gods, some are guardians of underground pools, and some are chthonic representatives of the chaotic sea.
You Go, Greydanus, or, O'Brien and the Dragon
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The ensuing race to the deadline is a pacy affair that alternates between the hapless Tamara's frequent recourse to her thesaurus S*nday, she reckons, is just the place to scatter words such as "chthonic" and "hermeneutic" and Tait's grim determination to keep her would-be profiler at bay, particularly from her rather murky private life.
The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review
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The car the Aventador replaces, the Murcielago, set the modern standard for dysfunctional supercar love: ferocious, belt-high, chthonic, a car so pagan you should use a reindeer cape as a car cover.
Lambo's Latest Rambo Has a Heart
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Andre Bauer and why I am a refugee in my own country (NSFW) by chthonic no comments, 3 recommends
Dems Must Step Up to Majority Governance after the Massachusetts Mess
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The books are simply books, entertaining fantasies, not a gateway into the Dionysian worship of the chthonic Great Mother and not a paragon of moral virtue either.
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Seeking deeper inspiration, the erudite Masson turned to the somber, chthonic Greek myths.
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Between them, these two words offer a tantalising glimpse back into a much earlier world, where Saturn is not so much an astral entity but a chthonic one, a god of the earth and agriculture.
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It is here that all the real drama of the Great Feud takes place, as in the chthonic struggles of old.
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Hicks's subjects - people, animals and a chthonic hybrid of the two - are classical, weighty and strong, and she has a deft touch with her materials.
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The point of low fantasy is to watch clean-limbed fighting men from Virginia clash flashing blades against surly yet brawny barbarians from Cimmeria during the last days of Rome on Mars or something, and maybe rescue a half-naked space princess from eldritch evil priests, eldritch chthonic demons, eldritch undead, eldritch pirates, eldritch highwaymen, eldritch encyclopedia salesmen of darkness.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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Since both Hecate and dogs were commonly thought of as chthonic, the association of both with magical herbs and roots is logical.
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The massif is the largest Swiss autochthonic crystalline entity.
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
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Rational Review
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F.ther F. Combes, S. J., [8] says that the owners, that is, the autochthonic natives of Mindanáo, were called Manóbos and Mananápes. [
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
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Rather, it is a kind of mythical or ur-nature, one associated with a primordial existence, chthonic gods and the enigmatic and destructive figure of the sphinx.
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The high aquiline nose which is characteristic of the autochthonic race abounds in San Sebastian, but we saw no signs of the high temper which is said to go with it.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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The massif is the largest Swiss autochthonic crystalline entity.
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
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Even the classical myths we still know bear traces of this ancient chthonic spirituality - just as our modern truths remain fully and unavoidably mythic.
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We have some record of arguments used to maintain the coherence of chthonic peoples, faced with varying forms of western proselytism.
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Side by side with Loney's elegy, interviews from half a century after the event talked of the rural darkness that city dwellers seldom see, and the sulphur stench that suggested another, chthonic darkness.
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Greeks poured honey, but not wine, in their rites for the dead, and in all the ceremonies which had to do with the worship of the earth deities -- the ancient autochthonic gods, older than the Olympians.
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
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Yet he impressed on all he said, on good words and bad alike, a marked autochthonic quality, as of the self-raised spontaneous products of some miraculous soil, from which prodigies and portents spring.
Voltaire
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Chthonic law can't be closed; the roman law of the jurists had no mechanism for radical change; hence no mechanism for anything as radical as closure.
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Its autochthonic ethos is threatened by the paradox of a heterodox dogma of inclusion.
Firedoglake » Puddles Has Problems
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Who has lordship over the dead: the ouranic Lord symbolized by the Lamb or the chthonic Hecate, symbolized by her dogs?
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The totality of chthonic tradition could thus serve the goal of human dignity as effectively as a western code of human rights.
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Nevertheless the idea has tapped into a latent, even chthonic passion for spelling words and 100,000 children applied to take part.
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Or was it original and autochthonic, independent, in its inception, of any external influences, and unconnected with any other institution?
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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Chthonic rumbles marry together distinct, unalike elements to commence new, hybrid stories.
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In Ireland, Macha and Mabd are equivalent to Epona as protectors of horses and chthonic divinities.
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Can you imagine in the 1930's, the heroic central character fighting evil wizards and chthonic monsters alongside a black man?
Intertribal: hope I don't break my arm falling out of the treehouse
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Yet, American Romantic ideology, as it emerged in the Democratic Review through the use of civic nationalism and sentiment, fostered the notion that a radical split from Britain was not only aesthetically desired but also ideologically necessary if its literature was to appear as an original, inspired, and autochthonic thing.
'An Anti-Democratic Habit of Feeling': Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Toryism in O'Sullivan's Democratic Review
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We see this in the way two large rock formations in ‘Equator’ rise from the sea like chthonic gods.
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In all their dark glamor, they evoke the global workings of industry, awful and chthonic.
