And modernists have stressed the difficulty of his work, its layered, contradictory meanings.

Knowing she would end the evening with Tony and not the man who was trying so hard to woo her gave everything strange undertones and layered meanings.

A quilt made by Lavinia Rose of Cortlandville, N.Y., in the 1860's is an unintentionally amusing example of such layered meanings.

You also need to like puns, layered meanings, overt sensuousness and long, dense sentences.

The dinghy is a story-book fantasy, old-fashioned and beguiling without the extra weight of layered meaning.

The work of both artists takes debased found objects - junk - as primary material, and uses that material to create layered, enigmatic meanings.

They were kept busy monitoring Wiseguy's talk with the Beings, trying to penetrate the aliens' snarled syntax and layered meanings.

The scallop shell has special, layered meanings.

This layered meaning may be the latest wrinkle in the evolving music video.

Aspects of the former cathedral, now a mosque, are paired with seemingly unrelated images that, on reflection, amplify the themes of cultural evolution and layered meanings.