1.   A classic tale of peasant life, it nonetheless is presented in the most modern, abstract way.

2.   A radical and an anarchist, he was interested in peasant life and the land rather than in the institutions of capitalism, which he railed against.

3.   Gradually, however, he began to concentrate more on peasant life and landscapes.

4.   It is a world of hardscrabble, primitive peasant life and hard-line, all-encompassing politics utterly different from suburban America.

5.   Khmer Rouge were ultra-Maoist communists, who emptied the cities and forced Cambodians into groveling peasant lives.

6.   Other prayers mark seasonal feast days, with everyday images drawn from peasant life.

7.   Van Gogh feared that the picture, with its lumpish, simian figures, would be taken as a cartoon version of peasant life.

8.   Mozhayev was considered an artist of contemporary life, and particularly peasant life, ITAR-TASS noted.