persona
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He noted that Morrissey’s malaise mirrors the sentiment of many ranchera songs, also citing that his effeminate onstage persona is a perfect subversion of Mexican machismo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
His pace, energy and on-pitch persona propelled him into the public consciousness and into contention for international honours.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Mr. Netanyahu, arms crossed, was quieter than his public persona would lead one to expect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Cosby’s conviction comes years after the diminishment of his power, long after Hollywood, and much of the populace, declared him persona non grata.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018
This was a persona I'd been tinkering with myself: the outcast, the rebel.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
To answer that question, you have to meet a couple of the other dramatis personae in this particular farce.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
But it is in fact a generic program for implementing various scripts, or personae, the most famous of them being Doctor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
In this unfiltered, unvarnished portrait of the artist, Sheff succeeds magnificently in bringing one of popular music’s most divisive and misunderstood personae to life.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025
It is also a world in which digital personae appear ready to lure the unsuspecting to places they may never return from.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
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
He had a number of different personas during his career including Pac, Adrian Neville and "The Man that Gravity Forgot".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
We all know that social-media personas can be misleading.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Millions of us toggle so frequently between our real lives and the well-curated fantasyland of our social media personas that it’s scrambled our neural pathways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
General Mills said GLP-1 users share some needs and behaviors with another of its personas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
As the guides usher me into a row, I scan the crowd around me and try to match up some of these people with their Warcross personas.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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