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How to use palimpsests in a sentence

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In terms of process, I see my canvases as palimpsests, surfaces that reveal their past and present layers.
These palimpsests are what I should like to examine, the fused layers the two authors traded.
Thus, all but the youngest landscapes are palimpsests, written over by a variety of successive or alternating sets of climate-related processes.
At least twenty of these are palimpsests, painted over other inscriptions in Montaigne's time, for a total of seventy-four inscriptions.
The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas.
Are there palimpsests by Richard Burton buried under a heap of raddi somewhere, waiting to be discovered and auctioned?
The resulting silver, black, white and sepia images are multilayered palimpsests whose billowing blobs of form hover, sometimes uncomfortably, within the pictorial arena.
The film is fairly nondescript, outside of a few shots of rooftops and a few palimpsests of images to which Ferrara holds the secret.
The motive for making palimpsests usually seems to have been economic reusing parchment was cheaper than preparing a new skin.
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.
The slow and laborious process leads to rich palimpsests of overlaid images, some fully present, some masked, some only ghostly silhouettes.
Today, Yin Xin works directly on ancient paintings found in flea markets, which he restores and transforms into palimpsests, replacing church towers with pagodas and frock coats with brocade robes.
In exterminating Arianism, many texts in Gothic were probably expunged and overwritten as palimpsests or collected and burned.
These display surfaces are palimpsests on which we re-write every day.
Such doubly written manuscripts are called palimpsests.
Under an agreement between the monastery and the California-based Early Manuscripts Electronic Library, researchers hope to spend five years peeping beneath the palimpsests.
Significative short-circuits, playful palimpsests, unless they are our conceits displayed, but with the wish to go beyond all expectations and thus preventing one from forgetting.
Database of descriptions and digitizations of Greek palimpsests i.e. those manuscripts containing texts written in Greek which have been produced by using 'recycled' parchment and which are extremely difficult to read.
The use of the word palimpsests in the title of this work has double meaning in regards to its study of recent Cuban history and its interpretation.
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