personage

Example Sentences

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Stanton is a huge and consequential personage in American history, but she has dwindled in the eyes of posterity to become a subordinate of Anthony.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The omnipresent Emcee, a queer Jack Be Nimble, can’t be dragged to the camps because he is a thematic stage presence, more a spirit than a depicted personage with a before/during/after narrative governed by reality.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2025

After “The Look of Silence” premiered in 2014, no less a personage than Werner Herzog told Oppenheimer he should do a fiction film next.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024

Security Council’s five permanent members, only the United States, in the personage of President Joe Biden, spoke.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2023

It was this realization, along with the fact that he was in M. Dupont's room, presumably addressing this most crucial personage, that caused me to stop my hand from knocking, and continue to listen instead.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro