dramatis personae
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In one respect, the dramatis personae in Kananaskis helps.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025
A new prologue, by the Israeli author Sivan Ben Yishai, is little more than an extended read-through of the dramatis personae.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022
The atmosphere is a multimedia swirl, but it’s the changes in dramatis personae that make the production initially hard to track.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2022
This is an overwhelming dramatis personae — one that spans not just the globe but a number of ideologies, types of government and two centuries.
From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2020
In the case of marrying, the dramatis personae include the person being married and the person doing the marrying.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
