In this little matter we see the lost layers of formality on which the drama of Austen's dialogue depends.
The exposed formations in the Bryce Canyon area likely represent these lost layers.
And, in an impressive sleight of hand, the company also lost a layer of management, with COO Artie Minson out, perhaps due to Patch's less-than-inspiring performance.
In immunohistochemical analysis of Otx1 knockout mouse, almost all Otx signal is lost in layer V while signal from Otx2 protein continues in PNN-labeled cells.
Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.
As a result, Duncan's breathtaking intellectual leaps and bounds are often lost under layers of literary writing.
But the book's polemical punch gets lost in layers of unnecessary padding and repetition, so that by the end the reader is exasperated rather than persuaded.
The book's protagonist, Magnus Pym, is the son of a charlatan and thief who develops a defensive facility for lying easily — and who becomes a spy, his true identity lost beneath layers of alternative ones.
Dibdin is wrong, I think, to object to the film and stage adaptations of the novel, not least because the original is so long and digressive that its dramatic central story - the seduction, fall and death of Tourvel - is too often lost beneath layers of obfuscation and repetition.
Mr Potter was airlifted to hospital, where he was found to have three fractured vertebrate, a "fat lip" and multiple bruises, as well as having lost "several layers of skin" from his face after tumbling down ice fields and plunging over at least three 100ft sheer cliffs.
