How To Use Palimpsest In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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But the palimpsesting of biblical and contemporary cultures is also deeply dissonant, deeply estranging.
Kings
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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.
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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.
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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.
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At least twenty of these are palimpsests, painted over other inscriptions in Montaigne's time, for a total of seventy-four inscriptions.
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Palimpsest is a metaphor commonly used by deconstructionists, particularly Jacques Derrida.
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It also reflects the widespread discovery that nothing is so boring and oppressive as the monothematic Modernist masterplan, and that most real landscapes are palimpsests recording layers of history and changes of mind.
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A second phrase looks backward to another bit of palimpsestic anachronism.
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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.
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In subterranean passages, where sedimentation rates are extremely low, endogenous processes are the primary sediment source, and archaeologists must identify artifact palimpsests on ancient surfaces.
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Once again the novel repeatedly turns inwards to examine its own nature, presenting itself as a kind of palimpsest.
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Not much has survived regarding "Categories," which scholars know was the subject of intense philosophical debate in the first-century B.C. The commentary found in the palimpsest has offered a wealth of details about that debate, and as a result "it enriches our understanding of an ancient and medieval interpretative tradition regarding the treatise that was considered to be the proper entry route into Aristotelianism," says David Sedley, a classics professor also at Cambridge.
Reading Beneath the Lines
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In one, the seams are sealed so tight that they are imperceptible; the realm is a closed system, without portals or rifts; it has no contact with any other realms; there is no crosshatching between alternative (i.e. temporal) elsewhens or palimpsesting of alterior (i.e. nomological) elsewhens; everything takes place within that realm.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
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The way it builds from an initial murmuration of clarinets is not unlike the way Palimpsest I proceeds.
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Her statement suggests that the wall and her pictures weave a kind of palimpsestic image-memory around her, informing her when she is not looking at them.
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The resulting silver, black, white and sepia images are multilayered palimpsests whose billowing blobs of form hover, sometimes uncomfortably, within the pictorial arena.
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The idea of a palimpsest is a helpful way of understanding the King James Version.
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In 1906 the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovered the palimpsest in a monastery in Istanbul and correctly identified the prayer-enshrouded text as the lost Method of Archimedes.
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Celebrity tattoos can be meaningful (Angelina Jolie's veritable UNESCO of cultural runes), amusing (Johnny Depp's palimpsestic "Wino Forever"), and unfortunate (everything Steve-O has ever done to himself), but rarely are they truly mysterious.
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Some people used old books as the basis of their scrapbook, leading to a palimpsest of original text and jumbled scraps, with columns overlapping columns and sentences running together.
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It is the palimpsestic notion of America as a kind of beacon.
Am I an americanist? : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Over the last three days of the week, we took field trips to sites and museums that highlight the "palimpsestic nature" of the city.
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It was certainly honorable to this reverend body in our own day that they numbered Mai and Mezzofante among their brethren; but in Rome the story ran that neither the palimpsestic labors of the one nor the fifty languages of the other would have won him the well-earned promotion, if the Pope's favorite servant had not set his heart upon making his children's tutor assistant-librarian of the Vatican.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
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London is a palimpsest: a parchment that has been over-written, time and again, by successive events in its chequered history.
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Our whole existence could be seen as a long progression of palimpsestic reality, where the old cultures, the old ways, are stripped away but continue to shine through in the ways we do things: our superstitions, our celebrations.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Are there palimpsests by Richard Burton buried under a heap of raddi somewhere, waiting to be discovered and auctioned?
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Who can say how many pseudostylic shamiana, how few or how many of the most venerated public impostures, how very many piously forged palimpsests slipped in the first place by this morbid process from his pelagiarist pen?
Finnegans Wake
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These palimpsests are what I should like to examine, the fused layers the two authors traded.
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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
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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.
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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
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The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas.
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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.
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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.
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The effect is like a surrealist making a palimpsest out of a mannerist piece of art.
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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.
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It was in effect a palimpsest of the best of previous translations, corrected and winnowed through almost a hundred years of development.
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It acts as a kind of palimpsest over which the literary writer might inscribe his/her own variations on "criminal" behavior and its sources in unruly human impulses.
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And while this conflated, multilayered time originates from a racially specific experience, Ellison hints that the continuity implied by the palimpsest may ultimately transcend racial boundaries.
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The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas.
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Deep cave environments and their slow sedimentation rates offer their own unique challenges, particularly the isolation of artifact palimpsests and their association with ancient surfaces.
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Every city is an urban palimpsest, a used parchment covered with the fragmentary scrawls of its own past.
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Her painting career begins with a huge fantastical mural of historical, religious, and cultural imagery and ‘progresses’ to paintings of fractured worlds to diptychs and triptychs to a final sinister palimpsest.
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Secondly, it is a good example of what I call the pious palimpsest.
Old Calabria
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The congealed acrylic surfaces with their oxymoronic textures and their occasionally violent collisions of color were yielding to a graphic attenuation, thick palimpsests replaced by bleeding overlays.
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The film traces the palimpsest from Constantinople to a Greek Orthodox monastery in the Judaean desert to the library of the Greek Patriarch in Jerusalem.
Television: Archimedes' Disgusting Document
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In particular, the research team is interested in the temporal span of mining activity in the cave and identification of chert testing locations and artifact palimpsests.
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The character of the discussions were more palimpsestic than immediately dialectical, but no less valuable in their complexity and depth.
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Like many of its citizens, Avila itself was a kind of palimpsest, a city of overlays.
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Thus, all but the youngest landscapes are palimpsests, written over by a variety of successive or alternating sets of climate-related processes.
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Walters Art Museum/Owner of The Archimedes Palimpsest This 13th-century prayer book was made by scraping the original text off the parchment paper, removing the binding, rotating the pages 90 degrees and rebinding the pages in book form.
Reading Beneath the Lines
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In terms of process, I see my canvases as palimpsests, surfaces that reveal their past and present layers.
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In each period, too, the arguments advanced by park advocates reflected changing perceptions of society's major problems so that park landscapes became cultural palimpsests as new features were added.
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The point is that ‘reading’ and design are but two sides of the same coin, involving the identification of layers in the palimpsest before overwriting can take place.
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Structure, services, surveyor's marks, and post-construction graffiti are overlaid as the most recent inscriptions on the palimpsest of the building.
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Mr. Follet points out, for instance, how in "Chance" we have one layer of personal receptivity after another; each one, as in a sort of rich palimpsest of overlaid impressions, making the material under our hands thicker, fuller, more significant, more symbolic, more underscored and overscored with interesting personal values.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
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The team have until the 7 August this year to scrutinise the palimpsest, before the synchrotron is switched off for maintenance.
Understanding the Holy Ground that Archimedes Walked On | Impact Lab
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The buyer allowed the palimpsest (a scraped and overwritten parchment) to be conserved, photographed, and displayed at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.