Sentence examples for historical layer from inspiring English sources

And if the director happens to set the play in Fascist Italy, that adds yet another historical layer to the proceedings.

In one sense, it evokes the "dignity of labour", a thematic that owes itself as much to craft unionism and the productivist ideology of a historical layer of skilled workers as it does to the so-called "Protestant work ethic".

Of the lake towns, Bolsena itself has the readiest charm, with its centro storico and Collegiata di Santa Cristina church, a historical layer cake whose earliest parts date from 11th century.

What happens when musicians who have dedicated years to making early-19th-century music sound straighter, brisker and more transparent hit a historical layer in which there is hard evidence that the modern manner is already straighter, brisker and more transparent than what the composers would have expected?

Broadly speaking, the state of the art regarding Bombay's indo-Portuguese historical layer is currently (2012) represented by two PhD dissertations recently concluded in Portugal and also most of the content in the "Heritage of Portuguese Influence" inventory.

MacLean brings these monumental and clashing historical layers vividly to life in Berlin: Imagine a City.

The historical layering has created a serendipitous aesthetic and had informed Michele's love of graceful juxtapositions.

He reads landscape as William Empson taught him to read literature, alive to its historical layers and the ambiguities they contain.

It has as many historical layers as ancient Troy, but here they're displayed side by side.

Mawer's technique here is a form of the historical layering that he previously plied in Swimming to Ithaca and The Fall.

His films don't have the deep historical layering or the self-punishing energy of Martin Scorsese's work, or the operatic rhetoric of Francis Ford Coppola's.