pentimento
noun
pen·ti·men·to
ˌpen-tə-ˈmen-(ˌ)tō 
plural pentimenti
ˌpen-tə-ˈmen-(ˌ)tē
: a reappearance in a painting of an original drawn or painted element which was eventually painted over by the artist
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Perhaps this is what eventually awaits those who experience migratory grief: the ability to see one’s former life not as a pentimento, crudely painted over by the present, but as part of a diptych, in which a past self sits more comfortably beside the new.
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Sheon Han, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2022
When looked one way, pentimento is evidence of a cheat or a cover-up.
—Vulture, 29 Nov. 2022
Obsidian Entertainment’s latest game, Pentiment, takes its title from the term pentimento, a change made by an artist while painting.
—Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
The yellow title casts a grayish shadow within the turquoise, a pentimento whose sign of an earlier paint layer signals a stratum of history.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022
But none of this backstory is explained in the film, which instead comes across as the cinematic equivalent of a pentimento, with the trace of the men’s friendship concealed beneath a conventional documentary form.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 May 2021
Alabama’s flag is a giant crimson X, St. Andrew’s cross, that’s almost a pentimento of the Confederate flag.
—Karen Heller, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
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Sheon Han, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2022
When looked one way, pentimento is evidence of a cheat or a cover-up.
—Vulture, 29 Nov. 2022
Obsidian Entertainment’s latest game, Pentiment, takes its title from the term pentimento, a change made by an artist while painting.
—Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
The yellow title casts a grayish shadow within the turquoise, a pentimento whose sign of an earlier paint layer signals a stratum of history.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022
But none of this backstory is explained in the film, which instead comes across as the cinematic equivalent of a pentimento, with the trace of the men’s friendship concealed beneath a conventional documentary form.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 May 2021
Alabama’s flag is a giant crimson X, St. Andrew’s cross, that’s almost a pentimento of the Confederate flag.
—Karen Heller, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
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“Pentimento.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pentimento. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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