In fables' classic form the dramatis personae are animals who represent the characteristics of humans.
To keep track of them all, Crewdson offers an all too necessary list of dramatis personae at the end of the book.
When he further explained the names painted the characters and habits of the dramatis personae, I and the rest of the form were hooked.
As a writer drawing on this experience, I seem able to take different perspectives on board and I am comfortable adopting a range of personae.
For this shaping one must draw on imaginative insight into the motivation of the dramatis personae.
There are arch literary allusions, plenty of knockabout energy, and two complementary personae on show.
Germany is a looking-glass land for rockers, a place to slip personae and assume new guises.
His edition also regularized the entrances and exits of characters and attached a dramatis personae to each play for the first time.
The film lays out the characters, gives you the dramatis personae, which we should have probably included in the book.
It is hard to assess performances when the dramatis personae are so unpersonable, unbelievable, and, above all, unmemorable.
The film has unmasked Norman, and now he unmasks himself, to reveal the leering monster that lurked beneath all his personae.
Antin's ability to imbue this bodiless amalgam with pathos is remarkable, a hint of what was to come in her various personae.
She is famous for her deconstructions of narrative personae, of story or plot, of characterization, thematics, and so on.
Rumours thickened as they spread and she and her three daughters were practically declared personae non gratae.
Women are portrayed as desexualized personae and seen through a sadomasochistic veil.
Putting together preliminary notes for his dramatis personae, Trollope jotted down the following thumbnail sketches.
Just as he acquired more than one name, so he had different roles and personae.
It was inevitable that focus would be made on the dramatis personae of that scene.
Then Prospero puts Miranda, a figure of the spectator, to sleep while he calls upon his instrument, Ariel, described in the dramatis personae simply as an airy spirit.
The rival personae can contradict each other, so that the poetry is pulled one way and the other, between the extremes of sterile formalism and sloganeering.
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In much the same way Kathakali eclipses other dance forms by its grandeur, Koman shadows all other personae, even though they are woven in a style combining ease and elan.
Outside of his main characters, most of King's dramatis personae tend to be little more than cliches and stereotypes who exist only to move the story forward.
And interwoven between all these are Colley's captives, a dramatis personae whose names and narratives gradually imprint themselves upon the reader as in a good novel.
Included in the dramatis personae is the character of The Old Man.
Soderbergh cuts artfully back and forth between three interrelated story lines, with very different settings and very different dramatis personae.
It's not so much the wholesale banditry of personae that rankles and bores, it's the sheer insipidness of the imagination on display.
The work also has affinities with Rodney Graham's filmic, psychological explorations of the self, in which the artist assumes various personae or alter egos.
But a story this big, this consequential, needs a dramatis personae of dramatic people.
The book is structured with short chapters, turning the eye of the narrator between these 20 dramatis personae.
In the first place, Orthodox Trinitarian doctrine cannot afford to emphasize either substance at the expense of personae or personae at the expense of substance.
His oeuvre is remarkable for the innovation of what Pessoa called heteronyms, or alternative personae.
Okrent feared that this might make them gamblers — personae non gratae — in the eyes of the sport's custodians.
United Nations officials in Decani have been assaulted after having been declared to be personae non gratae.
In most countries it is not sufficient for an applicant to fulfil the ratione personae criteria in order to obtain legal aid in another State.
Nor should it be forgotten that, in the broadcasting sector, frequencies are assigned intuitu personae and on a national basis.
In response, it was noted that subject-matter jurisdiction had to be distinguished from jurisdiction ratione personae.
Several members emphasized the need clearly to define the scope of the topic, which was not limited to the ratione personae aspect.
It would be in the petitioner's interest to convince the court of the intuiti personae character of the license that was granted.
It's something of a rebus, though perhaps involving more associative skills than your average rebus and doesn't make sense except as a melding of personae.
They assumed invented personae via performances and photographs during the '70s, many of them in backlash against the role-playing conformity expected of women in daily life.
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Lord Exbury's foppish elder son, his self-absorbed daughter, a local toad-eater, and a peasant couple are examples of the breadth of the play's dramatis personae.
To further mould and mythologise their stars' personae, the studios regularly fed gossip to fan mags, engineered spicy, fitting off-screen scandals.
The public personae of Lincoln and Grant have undergone similar fates.
In 1980, thee couple was declared personae non gratae by the convention, and letters were sent requesting that they not return from their furlough.
The fly personae in these films influenced a wave of black contemporary youth who resurrected flyness and its continuum in hip-hop culture.
Today what is left of the green movement depends upon Ayatollahs Montazeri and Sane'i – both personae non gratae for years – for its religious legitimacy.
The latter fact also means that the extra riches in symbolism, that crossroads of associations, furnishes him with a greater number of 'words' to tell the story of which the models in his paintings are the dramatis personae.
Shortly after, the Tiananmen Square confrontation between the government and the pro-democracy movement turned Chinese avant-garde artists into personae non gratae.
It is made up of twelve members, scientific personalities coming from the NARS and partner institutions and selected intuiti personae on the basis of their competencies.
The Transfer shall take effect in the same manner with respect to any person with whom EUTELSAT has entered into any agreement of an intuitu personae nature.
She lived in the city for more than a decade, beginning in 1968, during the heyday of minimalism, when figurative artists were personae non gratae.
That decree chiefly extended the scope ratione personae of the care insurance scheme to persons working in the territory of those regions and residing in a Member State other than the Kingdom of Belgium.
The Contract having been entered into intuitu personae, the Supplier, without the specific prior consent of the Purchaser, may not assign it, in full or in part.
Canada has closed its embassy in Iran, effective immediately, and declared personae non gratae all remaining Iranian diplomats in Canada.
Since a majority of them risk the likelihood of being perceived as personae non gratae in the West from the outset, they may seek potential sanctuary elsewhere.
But the new system was set up perfectly to accommodate and rehabilitate majority of the dramatis personae in the very regime they just defeated, blurring over all these with the Nuremberg Trials.
The living members of the dynasty were initially sent into exile as personae non gratae, though some have been allowed to return and live as private citizens in Turkey.

There were no playbills to hand round, with lists of the dramatis personae.
Meantime I can show you one of our dramatis personae, and an important one too.
The dramatis personae are not given in the quarto of 1640 nor in the 2nd folio.
A list of personae is given in the original on the verso of the title-leaf.
Not all his dramatis personae will always recognise, or welcome, his descriptions.
Accordingly our dramatis personae had to be radically recast at Mosul.
In the Comedy, the number of dramatis personae is exceedingly large.
Stanzas 21, 22 and 23 were added in the dramatis personae version.
A word should be added about the dramatis personae for the play.
While Donum vitae stopped short of declaring the embryo to be a human person, Dignitas personae stops only a hairsbreadth from doing so.
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

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