Example sentences for: personae

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

  • USA Today leads with the tough prison sentence given to an ex-aide to Mike Espy and what it might mean to the dramatis personae of the Clinton sex scandal.

  • Because of the tremendous vogue of such images, collected and reworked by Edgar Degas and Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt and then adopted in our own popular culture, we recognize immediately the polymorphous personae of the floating world--the sumo wrestlers, the geisha and her admirers (see Kitagawa Utamaro, The Mosquito Net , circa 1797), and the swashbuckling samurai.

  • Encounter's editor in chief, Peter Collier, cites Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae and Jim Sleeper's Liberal Racism--both critical of conservative as well as liberal orthodoxy--as the kind of books he'd like to print.

  • For the past year, three authors in three cities--Washington, New York, and Los Angeles--have been e-mailing one another in the personae of three characters in their respective locations.

  • As every New York Times reader knows, Rent is a Pulitzer- and Tony-winning "rock opera" version of La Bohème , with a dramatis personae of HIV-positive performance artists, transsexuals, and drug addicts from the East Village, whose cachet was greatly enhanced by the death on the eve of opening of its young composer/lyricist/librettist Jonathan Larson.


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