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“The Time Machine” is an alarming extrapolation of human tendencies of bifurcation, in which our progeny, circa 802,701 AD, has subdivided into the feckless Eloi and the troglodytic and cannibalistic Morlocks.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

Within Italy, Matera came to be seen as just another out-of-the-way town in the impoverished south; among foreigners, it had a reputation as a picturesque troglodytic locale.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2015

Peter and Agatha, painted by troglodytic monks escaping religious persecution in the Byzantine Empire.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2015

The cost of raising their profile outweighed the benefits of exposing their troglodytic views.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2013

Neither Brush nor myself is contemptible physically or in other ways, yet we both seemed curiously the inferiors of these troglodytic giants.

From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett