Example sentences for: persona

How can you use “persona” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Her know-it-all persona makes him sick, and without fully realizing what he's doing, he sets about trying to sabotage her candidacy.

  • Brooks studs his familiar, sad-sack persona with hard shards of ruthlessness and opportunism.

  • Garth Brooks shocks the world by putting out a pop album under the fictional persona of Chris Gaines, giving himself a radical makeover complete with soul patch, eye makeup and, most startling of all, no cowboy hat: "[H]e looks a bit like Trent Reznor crossed with a guy who eats a lot of cheese steaks" (Christopher John Farley, Time ). The music, though, is anything but shocking.

  • This paradoxical persona serves him gorgeously in Rounders , a snappy and ingratiating gambling picture in which Damon plays a character who fleeces "suckers" in poker games yet has a fundamental rectitude.

  • It's a one joke movie, but the one joke is good, and the actors are great: "Laughs battle formulas and laughs win" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). As the mob boss, "De Niro parodies his own persona with huge relish" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), and Crystal's put-upon analyst is refreshingly underplayed.


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