| The effect is like a surrealist making a palimpsest out of a mannerist piece of art. |
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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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| The idea of a palimpsest is a helpful way of understanding the King James Version. |
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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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| The buyer allowed the palimpsest to be conserved, photographed, and displayed at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. |
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| For the new study of the environment we turn to printed maps, the successive issues of which record the palimpsest of destruction. |
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| A privileged witness of their intimacy, the fedora, which never leaves the young man, will become the palimpsest of his love story. |
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| In a figurative way, palimpsest refers to an object or place that reflects its own history. |
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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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| 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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| Marc Geneix uses the palimpsest as a means of investigating contemporary reality. |
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| Today's toponymical palimpsest alludes to different scales and actors, between local aspirations, geo-marketing, and national geopolitics. |
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| Two hundred years later, the book of 90 pages was unbound and washed so that the goatskin parchment could be reused, producing what is known as a palimpsest, in which the older writing is sometimes visible under the new. |
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| The history underlies our own history in the form of palimpsest. |
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| Impressive example of an ab antiquo recycling: the palimpsest. |
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| The people of Aix are very conscious of their history and are proud of their city which, in many ways is a palimpsest of former centuries, only partly hidden beneath the modern facades of some of its buildings. |
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| The more extrovert type of partnership proposes a sort of mobile palimpsest unlike the first, which, as we have seen, tends to be closed, static, and to a certain degree short-sighted. |
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| Heinrich May in 1968 claimed to have found in England 12 leaves of a palimpsest containing parts of the Gospel of Matthew. |
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| Can you talk about how the palimpsest informs the structure of your novel? |
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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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