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Перевод: palimpsest

[существительное]
палимпсест [ист.]

Тезаурус:

1. More broadly, the strategy forms a kind of palimpsest of liberal views about the subsidised arts over the past four decades.
2. Such correspondences - and Barth underlines the pun - suggest that the novel is a multiple palimpsest with one textual layer over another and the roles of textual producer and fictional character constantly blurring together.
3. Once again the novel repeatedly turns inwards to examine its own nature, presenting itself as a kind of palimpsest.
4. Now our perception of the text as palimpsest is far more subdued than in LETTERS .
5. Now, having seen other great cities of the world, I am inclined to have warmer feelings towards those of more human proportion, or those which are, like Rome, a palimpsest.
6. But the "and's" and "or's" and the more and more rarely irritate, and are triumphant in the great set-pieces which mean so much to all three books - like that palimpsest of faces in Addis Ababa.
7. In the meantime one studies them as landscapes, so to speak, simply to heighten one's pleasure in sight-seeing, to get behind the superficial appearances, to uncover the layers of the palimpsest and to see, for example, a piece of the tenth century in the way a street makes an abrupt turn or does something else unexpected.
8. Now the British built a steam cathedral on a piece of land which had become a sort of palimpsest of indigenous and alien power.
9. At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest, or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work.
10. She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag, and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day: well-thumbed, much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley, Mary Barton, North and South, Sybil, Alton Locke, Felix Holt, Hard Times ; her lecture notes - a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks, beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation.
11. Once over the bridge one climbs steeply, across the steps of the Roman theatre, now watched over by the stern, ascetic eye of a medieval chapel, to the citadel above, a palimpsest, with a Roman fort at its base, surmounted by a medieval castle which the Della Scala were to dominate after the decline of the commune at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
12. I recalled north India seen from 36,000 feet, laid out like a Liberty print in various shades of silt: Art Nouveauish abstractions of dark arbitrary patches and wriggling river lines in wide sandy beds, whiplash meanders and ox-bows and dried up curves where rivers once flowed - a palimpsest of an earlier topography counterpointed by the rare human impositions of road and railway in thin straight lines.
13. Never less than thoroughly fascinating, the production is dominated by Ian McKellen's extraordinary Iago, a performance which feels like a shifting palimpsest of impersonations.