palimpsest

How To Use palimpsest In A Sentence

• Secondly, it is a good example of what I call the pious palimpsest. Old Calabria
• As seams they may be thick or thin -- borderlands of crosshatching or palimpsesting inhabitable in their own right or thresholds crossed with a step; they may be sealed tightly with crossings only possible through a portal or a rift, or they may be stitched loosely with crossings possible at any point along the long threshold. Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
• Clifton's palimpsestic rewriting of Whitman in which relationships, not the individual, have primacy, is finally able to bring this family identity into American literature.
• Women from Jane Austen and Mary Shelley to Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson produced literary works that are in some sense palimpsestic, works whose surface designs conceal or obscure deeper, less accessible (and less socially acceptable) levels of meaning. My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
• The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas.
• Following poems develop a manner of writing which relies heavily on language as a palimpsest of attitudes and learned response so as to undermine these.
• An anonymous private collector who bought the palimpsest for $2 million at auction in 1998 has loaned the manuscript to the Walters Art Museum and is funding the studies.
• The effect is like a surrealist making a palimpsest out of a mannerist piece of art.
• It produced excellent results on palimpsests, cancellations, and erasures due to damnatio memoriae, and on disintegrating surfaces where the ink has settled deep into the fibres.
• It was in effect a palimpsest of the best of previous translations, corrected and winnowed through almost a hundred years of development.