Crossword clues for unearthing
unearthing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unearth \Un*earth"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Unearthed; p. pr. & vb. n. Unearthing.] [1st pref. un- + earth.] To drive or draw from the earth; hence, to uncover; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to disclose; as, to unearth a secret.
To unearth the roof of an old tree.
--Wordsworth.
Wiktionary
n. Something unearthed; a discovery. vb. (present participle of unearth English)
Wikipedia
Unearthing is an essay written by Alan Moore and originally published in Iain Sinclair's London: City of Disappearances in 2006. It has subsequently been developed into a photographic book in collaboration with Mitch Jenkins and a spoken word piece in collaboration with Crook&Flail. The spoken word version is 2:01:07 in length and was released by Lex Records.
Unearthing follows the life of Alan Moore's friend and colleague Steve Moore. In an interview with The Quietus in 2010, Alan Moore described the work:
...more of a human excavation than the excavation of a place, but because Steve Moore has lived his entire life in one house on top of Shooter's Hill and he currently sleeps no more than four paces from the spot where he was born, it does become a work of psychogeography as well.
Usage examples of "unearthing".
Now Karpov was truly on his guard, knowing that by supplying an answer to these minuscule interrogatives, he would be unearthing a wealth of information for Lantin to pore over.
Everything and everyone in the city at that moment was instantly entombed in the cinders and ash, sealed hermetically for all time—or at least until the late eighteenth century, when a German archaeologist began unearthing the city.
So her future depended on Cade Parris, on his ability to handle her present and his skill in unearthing her past.
Jason Bourne's skills are once more for hire, and, as always, his client is beyond unearthing - in the present case the most unlikely client imaginable: a leading spokesman for the People's Republic who must eliminate his opposition both in Hong Kong and in Peking.
In giving herself up to the rhythms she was sensual, a kind of glossy exoskeleton dissolving at her feet, unearthing an ardour rich with substantive and elemental fury.
The girl had friends somewhere, it had just proved to be a bastard unearthing them.
Nishitsu had a secret life, just as Moravia himself did, and now Moravia had been charged with unearthing those secrets.
The deep green of the cryptomeria occluded the gray pall that still hovered over burnt-out Tokyo where legions of civilians still picked through the massive tons of rubble and blackened skeletons of the Red Night, urban farmers with ash-covered rakes, unearthing a harvest o£,despair.
Six days after Yoshida received the documentation of Shimada's transgressions, which included manipulation of ministry funds, use of ministry classified information to obtain jobs for several of his family, and the unearthing of a mistress, a geisha, as well as a wife, he was forced to dismiss the vice-minister and make the circumstances of his firing public.