palimpsest

How To Use palimpsest In A Sentence

• By going back to journal entries in which I initially recorded some of the events that surfaced in the ‘written’ writing, I was able to locate an initial palimpsest, or precipitate, of the writing.
• The palimpsestic jumble created by the network of pedestrian acts in the city, ultimately leaves the detective suspended at the surface, as if the city space were indeed flat.
• What the project has found is that there never was a unitary pagan past; instead there is a palimpsest of myths and legends, places and landscapes, changing and continuing.
• Whoever wrote this story of Dante must have been at the economical pains to erase carefully the ecclesiastical script, thus curiously avenging so many palimpsests of Greek poets and Latin poets, whose lyrics have been scrubbed away with pumice-stone to make room for homilies and liturgies and hagiologies. The God of Love
• An obliterated manuscript written over again is called a palimpsest, and the man who can restore and read it a paleographist. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
• But the palimpsesting of biblical and contemporary cultures is also deeply dissonant, deeply estranging. Kings
• Aside from a few unpeopled shots of the nondescript, working-class house, most of the images depict visitors touching either side of the glass, creating a palimpsest of earnest prayers.
• Moreover, preserving the spatial forms and making a palimpsest of the space allowed the process of revitalization as a double edges sword to carve the city's history and culture face.
• American critics like Gates have used the metaphor of a ‘silent second text’ to describe the intertextual, palimpsestic dialogue between historically significant works of African American fiction.
• At least twenty of these are palimpsests, painted over other inscriptions in Montaigne's time, for a total of seventy-four inscriptions.