protean

How To Use protean In A Sentence

• That's certainly true of Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), a socially maladroit Harvard sophomore computer nerd who, in the opening scene of the film, buzzily delineates his single-minded quest to be recruited by one of Harvard's elite social clubs, over beers with his girlfriend (the protean Rooney Mara). Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Social Network
• A guild of musicians with the chops to tell Parker—the most protean improvisator of the bebop era—to come back when he's ready is one tough union. A Little Evil Will Do You Good: Kansas City Jazz
• The mineral, carbonate of lime, assumes an immense diversity of characters, though no one doubts that under all these Protean changes it is one and the same thing.
• Sexuality appears to be a protean, shifting concept because it is instantiated at multiple levels.
• The differential diagnosis of the mild seroconversion illness is protean and, without a high index of suspicion and a history indicating relevant risk behaviours or factors, the diagnosis may be missed.
• She was so many-sided, so many-mooded — “protean-mooded” I called her. Chapter 28
• Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the protean life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations.
• There was a creature of burnished shadow in her, dark and sleek and protean. SACRAMENT
• And that's the kind of protean, brand-spanking-new-for-now category I'd like to live my reading and writing life in. Archive 2006-03-01
• George Orwell once described England as a protean creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same.