How To Use Persona In A Sentence

(Variety's Dennis Harvey called Mr. Friedman's onscreen persona "nebbishy"; The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris was a little nicer, saying, "The movie is the product of his big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom ... has eluded.") Did Pirated 'Wolverine' Review Get Fox 411's Roger Friedman Fired? [Update]
When I looked at the chart a second time, I saw that there was a lot Michael had left out of his personal history; specifically, IVDU—intravenous drug use—dating back ten years, and a major depression that had led to a psychiatric hospitalization and ECT, electroconvulsive therapy. After the Diagnosis
Naturally, this makes interpersonal relations, especially with societies unexposed to the advantages of the American lifestyle, a little difficult.
Solomon himself impersonated the phallic god Baal-Rimmon, "Lord of the Pomegranate," when he was united with his divine bride, the mysterious Shulamite, and drank the juice of her pomegranate Song of Solomon 8:2. Archive 2008-03-01
Jim Devine said the £2326 of "joinery" was for storing personal and party political material in a pub cellar he was renting. Archive 2009-06-01

The huge amounts that this would bring in would allow the personal allowance to be raised by a couple of thousand, helping those on low and medium incomes.
With no personal stake in the performance scene, Priyambada continues to be one of the most objective observers and commentators of the Odissi scene.
Please be assured that eHarmony uses robust security measures, including password hashing and data encryption, to protect our members' personal information. TIME.com: Top Stories
The colour is a focal point on one wall and adds a bit of personality. Times, Sunday Times
However, your best bet is to look for a personal fitness trainer that is trained and certified in post-rehabilitation, a manual physical therapist, or an osteopath .
The fifth position went to a phishing activity, in which a university hacker stole Internet users' personal information by luring them to provide confidential data on disguised Web sites.
However, even during adulthood we are constantly learning the faces of new individuals, both personal acquaintances and media figures.
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And Buddhism and Hinduism were sketched out in the India issue: the less personalised and politicised nature of these religions makes it easier.
This is the obedience of faith to which personal conviction leads.
Each person makes his or her own decision according to personal perception and understanding.
Fox relied heavily on the strength of his personal image as a caudillo, which is by no means a new phenomenon in Mexican politics.
But true-life tales of memory loss don't offer just drama - they also shed light on the mysteries of identity and personality.
I was arraigned the very next morning and released on a personal. Show Stoppah
Years of early art, pencil sketches, architectural renderings, magazine covers, newspaper clippings and personal photographs are also on display in the new gallery.
This is the exclusive preserve of the cave explorer who cares less for personal discomfort.
I'm personally offended both by the error on the Times website and by your association of me with what you call the intentional slander of US marines. Rightwing Spin That Haditha Massacre Never Occurred
The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder.
You are entering a period when you will emit such strong personal magnetism that no one will be able to resist you. The Sun
The ambassador personally conveyed the president's message to the king.
Hula hoops and pet rocks were fads; personal computers and cellular telephones are trends that are changing the way people live.
We have developed a very close, personal relationship, a relationship of trust.
That queasy feeling of disillusionment is a universal one says Schmidt; one that makes this particular play accessible for audiences on a very personal level.
The avatar would greet drivers and give them information and personalized feedback using conservational language. Ford to Enhance Sync With 'Apps' and Avatars
On the one hand, it was a powerful tool to enhance or sustain personal and corporate power, wealth, and status.
I believe that we will be judged on this record and not by unkind and unjustified personal remarks in the press.
The chairman of the bank believes in the personal touch and always sends a signed letter to each customer.
Above all, lots of protection, such as having a personal posse of bodyguards. Times, Sunday Times
That way a personal reply is guaranteed. The Sun
A test is to see how the clause would read if you used a personal pronoun instead. Times, Sunday Times
This could provide funds for each son and so fulfil one of his personal ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
I personally try and keep it simple with a Grande, skim, triple, bone-dry cappuccino, which is Starbuck's English for the kind of cappuccino you'd get at the Rome airport. Mark Strausman: A Chef's-Eye View of Starbucks
I believe there is a 19 year old Tory standing in Coatbridge and Chryston but, personally, I don't fancy his chances. When two tribes go to war (part four)
The bold provisionality and elegant openness of Merz's installations, as well as his own freewheeling personal presence and oracular writings, helped make him the most widely recognized of all the Arte Povera artists.
It was this conviction that made the intrigues at OKH, the disregard and "mislaying" of unwelcome instructions, such a personal affair in the first summer's campaign. Barbarossa
Thus the various ritual capacities of North Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers typify the sort of interpersonal agency implicit in Melanesian personal partibility.
Personally, I don't wear separates, but one can wear them occasionally to freshen their style and wardrobe, with a whole new casual yet elegant look.
In rock'n'roll, the number one consideration is personality. Times, Sunday Times
A vast, impersonal, abstract pattern stands be-hind this legend.
The plan laid out in 1996 to change welfare to workfare recognized and provided for the critical role child care would play in transitioning from government dependency to personal responsibility.
I personally think a more optimistic outcome is within our grasp as we understand more and more the way the brain works. Times, Sunday Times
Contrary to his testimony, Pierce was personally involved in the fraud.
The activity centres around the big top in Stockton High Street offering free all day entertainment with live broadcasts and personal appearances.
A Serious Man" draw from their writer-directors 'personal histories, while "Nine" reimagines Fellini's semiautobiographically impressionistic "8 as a musical. Variety.com
He knows that his collaboration in both wartime and personal events is morally questionable, and acknowledges this.
It would also release more time for doctors, who would no longer need to cope with people presenting illness as a cover for their real aim - the chance to talk to a sympathetic person about their personal problems.
And it is in the elicitory processes of both personal attachment and detachment wherein social agency lies.
He emphasised that there is no personal animosity. Times, Sunday Times
Sick of his persona - delicate emotions paired off with caustic cynicism - he creates a bogus doppelganger to hide behind.
Unlike the phrenologists of the 19th century, DeYoung's team doesn't presume to know whether differences in the size of a brain region give rise to unique personality characteristics, or whether our personality differences cause our brains to develop in unique ways - say, that when we practice random acts of kindness, our "agreeableness" center grows larger, or that a lifetime of social isolation might cause a region associated with The Columbian stories: Columns
The company says it “would be elated to have a personable, motivated self-starter such as yourself join our team of merry pornstars.” Will Ferrell First Guest On “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien”
Yeah, he's a pop genius, but his cool, affable swagger and clever repartee are the perfect complement to the more extroverted, outgoing personalities of Dahle and Ms. Case.
Amazingly, as personal computer technology was filtering into the Weltanschauung, their vision was actually filtering into the mainstream.
Mr Dunn said motorists choose a garage on personal recommendation.
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Harvard-educated Internet entrepreneur and cosmopolite Alex Vik and his wife, Carrie, set out to conjure up a comprehensive personal vision here that involves ranch life, sports, and luxury; a genuine sense of place; and a reach for something universal. Off the Beaten Track
I am compelled to add my personal plea to the current campaign for all young adults to receive the Salk vaccine.
His personal life has been chequered. Times, Sunday Times
I took out a personal loan and, after a payment holiday, repayments started in February.
I suggest that thinking begins with frank analysis of our own very personal primal experiences of the country.
So he argued against the rich being able to commemorate their war dead with ornate personal graves.
Yet while pilotless drones are dehumanised and impersonalised, mobile phone ring tones and screensavers are instances of the humanity and personality of the people behind technology.
The number of kata, many of which have several personal variations, is quite large.
I personally beg all mothers to insist that their governments work towards this end.
Along with stamping out burglaries and thefts, a heavy emphasis is put on personal safety.
While he pours her feelings out, she treads very carefully and doesn't make the reader feel as though they are crashing into her personal life or snooping into her diary.
Stanley M.. Brand, a Democratic former House general counsel, said the penalty seemed personal rather than political.
I personally think the only competant brach of the US government is the military. Will Europe Collapse?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Solicitors who handle claimant personal injury claims are shocked. Times, Sunday Times
There were also reports of increasing calls to personal alarm services from elderly and vulnerable people. Times, Sunday Times
I guess the term for that is "social networking," but I remain more interested in the social than the networking, and blogging under a pseudonym six or eight times a month in a personal essayish vein isn't exactly the fast lane to fame and influence. Archive 2009-05-01
One of the current topics on the Child-Lit listserv, where I usually lurk, is a discussion "Harry Potter -- Hype or Word Of Mouth," which got me thinking about when I first read HP and its impact on me, personally and professionally. How I Found Out About Harry
Personally, we'd get rid of that annoying opera singer in the insurance adverts. The Sun
The now not-so-young British artist is best known for his macabre installations, business savvy and yobbish personality. Damien Hirst's Birthday: June 7 (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Personal digital assistants offer everything, from e-mail, word processing and time and billing to reading e-books and playing games.
Eminent theatre personalities Zohra Segal and Ebrahim Alkazi and noted 'mridangam' Carnatic artist Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman are the other three chosen for Padma Vibhushan award by the government which, in all, named 130 people, including 13 in the category of foreigners, NRIs and PIOs. 43 are Padma Bhushan and 83 are Padma Shri. The Times of India
A man's personality and mental make-up do have a bearing upon his conduct.
The hotel offers a friendly atmosphere and personal service.
Making items such as favours and flowers will help to ensure your wedding has the personal touch. The Sun
This music is a one-way ticket to your own personal paradise.
If she was, he was glad he'd taken the tranquilizing drugs to dampen out his responses, and to give him a more ‘pleasant’ personality.
There should be little doubt that these men personally believed much of the racist arguments they delivered, but it may be overstating the case somewhat to suggest that all other concerns were nugatory.
`You both signed personal guarantees when you took out this loan originally, putting up your houses as collateral. BETTER THAN THIS
• Depersonalization, or separated from your environment i.e. derealisation. anxiety disorders? ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
The bills are entirely regular, as impossible to impersonate as lifelong acquaintances. THE SAVAGE GIRL
Emmett ran a good race to finish in fifth place with a ‘Personal Best’ of 4 minutes 2 seconds.
He drove a Rolls-Royce with a personalised number plate.
Her impersonations of our teachers were a source of considerable mirth.
This course focuses on the theory and practice of violence and nonviolence from a gender and feminist perspective, and deals with social conflicts at interpersonal, intergroup, and intersocietal levels. Short courses in gender and peacebuilding (University for Peace)
The criticism of our time ... is indissociable from an investigation and experience of its transcendental field (s), of the (impersonal) tendencies and haecceities which traverse it, as well as the potentialities, utopian ones perhaps, with which our present can be composed. The Skeptic's Field Guide
Quiet and intense, he speaks in a halting manner, sometimes garbles his sentences and lacks a smooth personal touch. Minn. governor fights GOP on taxes for wealthy
Then members of the mandirs or businesses sponsoring the floats personalized them with balloons and garlands.
But these questions are personal and subjective. Times, Sunday Times
At last we have reached the limit for personal injury compensation claims. Times, Sunday Times
He speculates about the personal stories of strangers in bars and offers up tales of his childhood with the ease of a trusted friend.
Very soon they had passed from the realisation that in them and through them a new world of giantry shaped itself in the earth, from the contemplation of the great struggle between big and little, in which they were clearly destined to participate, to interests at once more personal and more spacious. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
It needs to be cherished and supported, even if this involves a certain amount of personal inconvenience.
Racism, homophobia, McCarthyism, classism, it's all on display as they try to muzzle those who disagree by vitriolic, personal attack.
Some days I wonder whether many in the news media personally identify with Lieberman, so that his defeat is theirs. Balloon Juice » 2006 » August
This also reflects his personal hygiene, outwardly appearing clean but in reality, dirty. STUART: A Life Backwards
How dare you make personal remarks!
The accountant was described as being personally dull, boring and unimaginative.
Now, when you use the term fantasy, is this something you were doing for your personal pleasure? CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2005
Methods This investigation was conducted among 310 medical students using 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire(16PF) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ).
Using the same microchips we use in personal computers and phones has made the process a whole lot easier. Times, Sunday Times
The family dynamic gets splintered when Glen develops a second personality - Glenda - and starts acting out, leading to spectacular patricide.
Dressed in a sheer teddy, a very personable smile painted across her white face, she returns to the stage carrying a small basket.
Her insight into clinical situations was combined with an unusual capacity for personal support. Times, Sunday Times
But in furnishing its imaginary, cultural platform for the revival of liberal politics in America, The West Wing has also slipped into an uncritical cult of personality — much as the adoration of Bill Clinton has in the real-life house of liberalism. The Feel Good Presidency
Students also gain opportunities to observe how personalized strategies can be constructed to meet individuals' needs.
He liked Renwick personally, admired him professionally, but there were limits to what could be done.
Stand-up is less about the material and more about confidence, authority and having a consistent persona.
E-mail also is an important way that the Net connects strangers who share personal passions.
He covers everything under the sun from personal development to astral projection.
Problems in his personal life became intolerable for him and he felt unable to face his future.
The media gave his personal life a pretty firm going-over.
The personal tributes to professors and teachers were a nice touch. Times, Sunday Times
Personally, I begin waterfowl hunting, and me and my buddies put on a coyote hunt in January. With the big game season winding down in most areas. What is everyone doing to keep sharp and break the monotony of winter?
Though self-effacing "It isn't my personality to be particularly proud of what I do" the composer seems to recognize his legacy as arguably the only living film composer with both classical credentials and name recognition among everyday moviegoers. The Last Movie Maestro
You can go down either the credit card or personal loan route. The Sun
Objective: The study attempts to find initial relationship between olfactory perception favor and individual personality, to explore a new route in research of personality at behavior level.
He felt as if he was on the brink of the greatest personal triumph of his life.
There was the glass ceiling, the unequal pay, and while feminine qualities of leadership transformed the work world, they did so often at a cost to personal life.
As she embraced him, she felt his shrunken arms and shuddered; the muscular vibrance that had always been the essence of his personality was completely absent. Empire of Dreams
To suggest that all unproductive consumption is solely capitalist personal consumption is to go beyond the bounds of credibility.
Although marijuana is technically illegal, personal consumption is arguably decriminalized due to the ‘ban on excessive punishment’ written into German law.
Crane has also been diagnosed as suffering from exhibitionism and anti-social personality disorder.
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. Sigmund Freud
Version 3.0 and the further improved 3.1 version of Microsoft Windows have changed the face of modern Personal Computing.
He provided Rhodes with a steady income, hiring him as his personal instructor.
It was an oddly sly glance, as though suddenly he were a different person -- or rather I was seeing the obverse of his personality. HIGH STAND
Personally, I think DDOT is doing some good things in pedestrian/bike work, but doing this on NY Avenue right now may be too big a fish to fry. Matthew Yglesias » DDOT Decides That Speedy Cars are More Important than Pedestrian Safety
I know several of them personally and have always felt I have been given a fair hearing.
Current account and mobile phone number binding mode of operation is relatively common, you must be more careful, minimize disclose personal information in network.
Politics is too often concerned only with the personal vanities of politicians.
The family is shaping excellent personality life textbook, is to stimulate the spirit of power source, is the emotional rain nourishes the soul.
General Philosophy covers such topics as mind and body, theory of knowledge, causation and personal identity.
I've seen it up close and personal. Times, Sunday Times
In a poll of employers for employability skills for new hires, interpersonal skills ranked highest in level of importance.
My personal trainer works me hard
'Is it worth the effort?' 'Speaking personally, yes.'
When I worked in the ER I had a plastic surgeon beef up my personal ratio count when he refused to come in for a 27 year old female who literally had the right side of her face bitten off from her lip to her orbital canthus by her own pit bull, ONE WEEK BEFORE HER WEDDING. Time and Place
A personal philosophy is something which all people have nomatterwhat their background, class, or educational attainment.
He was also something of a fiery personality, who liked to argue with referees, opponents and managers alike. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
Of critical importance, Du Bois wrote, is his financial success, his efforts to increase church membership, and his personal popularity. American Grace
The purpose of the arrests is to cause gangs to police themselves -- if every murder results in a torrent of arrests, gang leaders are more likely to discourage the use of violence to resolve personal disputes. Chicago Gang Violence: Police Chief Jody Weis Follows Through On Controversial Strategy
One of the realities of these worlds is the strategic exploitation of these essentialist identities as a means of personal leverage, power, and careerist gain.
Here are some excerpts from the opinions expressed by some eminent personalities.
The posting doxes Moore's personal information, including date of birth, address, phone number, and more.
Behind the easy-going persona is a thoughtful man with a razor-sharp football mind. Times, Sunday Times
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
She has been accused of trying to get her former brother-in-law dismissed from the police force to settle a personal score. Times, Sunday Times
‘The personality of the critic is much deprecated in our time,’ he wrote in the newspaper.
The study, at a large Fortune 100 manufacturing company, focused on employees who provide personal care to an older relative.
However, the constraints of HTML and web browser technology prevent the reader from personalizing the files, although we have provided readers with a simple search engine, and some indexing and annotation.
The word patriarch as applied to Biblical personages comes from the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
I'm not the rah-rah type, that's not my personality, but I'll be giving it 100% and everyone on the team knows that.
Personally, I think it is very fortuitous that this kind of hankering back and forth and subtle "adjustments" of positions this earrly is good for th candidates. McCain And Obama Battle It Out Over Supreme Court Handgun Decision
Mahmoud had been unable to uncover anything of a personal nature which might have prompted the attack.
Well before the beginning of the global economic crisis, a Brazilian street seller was on his way to becoming a very famous entrepreneur in the country by doing just one thing: selling popcorn, with a personal touch. 36 year old Valdir Novaki used to work as an itinerant farm labourer, until he arrived in Curitiba, in 1988, where he started working as a newsagent, then as a car park driver. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Tips to face the crisis from a popcorn street seller
Many would no doubt take issue with me on that simple assertion, citing personal reasons why it is not so.
The company's leaders — and fun brand personality — help to lure in "evangelist" consumers who further spread the word about the brand, says Popchips investor Alex Panos, managing director at TSG Consumer. Popchips CEO Keith Belling is 'poptimist' on healthy snacks
The boys tossed out personal gear from their musette bags and filled them with ammunition.
Too much of ourselves must be deleted when we erase our personal histories and abruptly dissociate ourselves from who we have been’.
ng Meeting 7 is available online at www.randi.org Bio: Fintan Steele, director of scientific education and communications at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, traces the history of personalized medicine from Hippocrates and humorism to ‘overhyped’ modern day incarnations. 2010 April 09 | TECHNOLOGY NEWS
So Foster's got this vaguely martyr-like songbird persona she's working, and sometimes the devious witch bit sticks out too, as on ‘Crackerjack Fool’.
Maybe his vision could have been blinkered by already knowing the players personally.
That 'lifeway' supplied our youth with a critique of Jamaican (and world) society and gave them some firm moral and personal orientations. Jamaica Gleaner Online
Personal relations have become restless, fretful, often disturbed by an itch for change and variety.
Lady Macbeth has nothing personal against the men, women and children she must destroy to clear her husband's way to power - her purposefulness is pure.
Some religions include a doctrine of personal immortality.
Cases of moderate to severe depression are rising also because depression often co-occurs with other problems - alcohol and drug abuse; personality, eating and anxiety disorders.
As well as his new-found sobriety, this may be in part a reflection of a stability in his personal life. Times, Sunday Times
The study cites evidence that such isolation can produce “the most extreme forms of psychopathology, such as depersonalization, hallucination, and delusions.” Primary Sources
He developed a split personality after the crash.
All unrealizable, save for some supreme moment, did the web of Daylight's personality creep out and around her. Chapter XV
Psychological studies have confirmed this: the more advanced students have much less aggressive personalities than the average person.
It becomes more difficult to be angry at politicians fiddling their expenses if we are weeping with them over their personal tragedies. Times, Sunday Times
By day he works as the personal assistant for the boss of a haulage firm.
My main goal for the full-frontal personal marketing assault was primarily to allow myself to sleep at night.
Personal valets glide silently past, afternoon tea is served at exorbitant prices, and trinkets of the previous visitors are left in some of the rooms - Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Noël Coward.
More interpersonally oriented social psychologists and cultural anthropologists view emotions as being created among people.
She has a razor-sharp mind and a forceful, determined personality. Times, Sunday Times
My job is somewhere between a secretary and a personal assistant.
He's of the age for it, and people with personality disorders dement too. Dr. Bane strikes again.
Es una pregunta clara y directa que para cualquier persona letrada del mundo, en cualquier idioma, entiende que lo que esta pregunta hace es indagar si se instala o no otra urna, una cuarta, para decidir si se convoca o no a una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente. The Volokh Conspiracy » CRS on the Honduras “Coup”:
VisiCalc defined the term killer app and kicked off the personal computer industry, will there be a similar program for virtual worlds? Undefined
Personal call deposit can be registered for loss reporting.
Flacco threw a 22-yard pass to Demetrius Williams and the Titans received two personal foul penalties before Le'Ron McClain scored from the 1. USATODAY.com
Was this the beginning of a turnaround for a career that has stalled on the back of personal turmoil and a technique that has deserted him? Times, Sunday Times
The huge haul of information includes facts about personal text messages, emails and phone calls. The Sun
Google 'personalizes' one in five searches - Eye on your history, your location, your friends Techmeme
Howard Gardner has said, “Many people with IQs of 160 work for people with IQs of 100 if the former have poor intrapersonal intelligence and the latter have a high one.” Testing for Kindergarten
She's a personal assistant as distinct from a secretary.
It's a high-level application programming interface that sits on a Unix-based personal computer equipped with call processing hardware.

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