How To Use Protean In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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Sexuality appears to be a protean, shifting concept because it is instantiated at multiple levels.
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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.
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She was so many-sided, so many-mooded — “protean-mooded” I called her.
Chapter 28
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Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the protean life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations.
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There was a creature of burnished shadow in her, dark and sleek and protean.
SACRAMENT
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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
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George Orwell once described England as a protean creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same.
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Rembrandt was a protean artist, creating a Shakespearean range of subject and mood in his paintings, drawings and etchings.
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The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality.
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Equally protean and conniving, she is his partner in crime and spirit.
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eyes...of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same
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This is not an easy task, not least because the distance on their subjects that historians value is not realizable when examining a subject as protean as globalization, and one that is both now expressing itself and still changing.
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The boundaries of its, and its historians ’, concerns have been flexible, even protean.
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Born in 1948, he remains for many the heir to Gabin and Belmondo, a versatile, protean actor whose rugged looks are belied by his sensitivity and talent.
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He never lets his learning cloud his enthusiasm for this wide and protean subject and his writing shares the awe of the poets who preceded him on this journey.
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Would her proteanness never end? he wondered, as he glanced over the magnificent, sweating, mastered creature she bestrode.
CHAPTER XII
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Augustine is a protean thinker, a man whose major works range so widely as to defy the summary and commentary we can present for Athanasius.
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Of course, with the protean Madonna, who has reinvented herself from Material Girl to erotic icon to domestic supermom, the new, more cerebral figure of cabalist is a daring twist, and there are those who admire her ingenuity as an aging artist though perhaps a T-shirt during a California performance on the tour that read “Kabbalists Do It Better” went a little far.
A Jewish Madonna? Is That a Mystery?
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He is a protean stylist who can move from blues to ballads and grand symphony.
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He loved to show off his protean talent.
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They begin by turning the motion on its head, asserting that a reactive foreign policy dangerously ignores the reality of a post cold war world in which the lines of conflict have become protean and subject to unpredictable change.
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The president is sometimes described as "protean," after Proteus, the powerful Greek mythological sea figure who could change into any shape, including wild beasts.
So Long, Music Man
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These served to introduce a group of works from the 1940s, mainly not exhibited at the Addison, but characteristic of the protean, notoriously late blooming painter's many guises.
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Just as the actor animated different trappings in different situations in the same play, and in different plays at different times, the soul animated the protean body through all its changes.
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His ideas never crystallized into a system: he held that political thought had to be as mobile and protean as its object.
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His respect for ‘evidence’ is both an acknowledgment of its multifaceted and protean nature and an expression of gratitude for the materials it supplies.
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It's hard for other performers to get away from the protean popster's commandingly eccentric personalities, but Michel stamps his own on at least some of these reworkings of older, and lesser known, tracks.
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It is a protean creature, an uncertain character capable of fluctuating under pressure.
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Nature is to be cared for, valued and respected in its protean variety and vitality.
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Beats me, but I guess it means a figure of that stature and not, as you say, someone who invented a genre out of his own protean imagination and virtuosity, all of which is just so alien to the idea of electronica to begin with.
Hamster; Dance – The Bleat.
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This internally inconsistent narrative derives its protean fluidity from the projection and reception of the multiplicity of the gendered and racialized discourses of her and our own time.
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Protean-like kings, these people raise and they may likewise level.
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The borders of this new world will remain protean, subject to change over time.
The New World Order
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Nature is more protean than Bacon dreamed: Proteus merely assumes different shapes; nature shifts between whole realities.
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The drama takes place at noon, motionless noon crouched into negative capability, when the world is worlding, and forms pulse in a combinative protean grammar.
The Best American Poetry 2008
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Traditionally, the tempurature of Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) is predigested as invariableness and uniformity, but the protean and unhomogeneity of tempurature are rarely involved.
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We are all in search of ways of approaching this protean subject; neither metaphor alone nor purely mechanistic interpretations take us very far.
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He is a protean stylist who can move from blues to ballads and grand symphony.
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Writing my biomorphic, centered verse is protean for me.
Anis Shivani: Exclusive: Beat Poet Michael McClure On Jim Morrison, The Doors, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac
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Such contradictions generally enhance the text, for they present an attractive protean self, one willing to learn and change when confronted with new knowledge.
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But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things.
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Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a protean character who seems to alter with each costume change.
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Elga Group has changed its name to Protean and has acquired Carbolite, the electric furnace and oven specialist.
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(It's only later, during AC's "Catastrophe For Two Worlds" event, in an attempt to simplify the morass of rationales for superpowers, that the Prof's "primalised matter" is revealed to be none other than the proteanite toxic to Overman, but in an omicron-irradiated form harmless to the Man of the Future.)
The Legion of American Watchers
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The _Pompilidæ_ are species of great beauty, some closely resembling those of Australia in the banding and maculation of their wings; amongst the _Vespidæ_ will be found some of the most elegant and beautiful forms in the whole of that protean family of Hymenoptera.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality.
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There is one point connected with individual differences, which seems to me extremely perplexing: I refer to those genera which have sometimes been called 'protean' or 'polymorphic,' in which the species present an inordinate amount of variation; and hardly two naturalists can agree which forms to rank as species and which as varieties.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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Inordinately protean" is really just a way of saying that a book like Moby-Dick is always worth reading and re-reading, that readers 'experiences of the novel are always going to be productively various.
Canonical Writers
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Such an escape strategy of unpredictable movements is known as Protean evasion, after the Greek river god who eluded capture by continually changing form.
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It then simply resolves itself into one of those exceptional instances of what is called a protean form.
The Antiquity of Man
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Among the industry’s truly protean figures, he ably filmed every type of genre picture imaginable; weathered several epochal shifts in moviemaking technique (example: with the talkie ascendant, he effortlessly transformed from zealous location realist into sound-stage artifice reveler); and helped shape the screen personas of Gable, Cooper, Tracy, and Fairbanks (and swell the bosoms of Shearer, Bow, Bergman, and Velez).
Cover to Cover
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Their protean sound lifts them above the legions of second-rate math rockers who think it's enough simply to noodle around with shifting time signatures and obscure chords.
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Who else but HBO could truly do justice to an unexpurgated concert special showcasing the Madonna of the new millennium: the protean and prolific and perversely unpredictable Lady Gaga.
Matt's Weekend Picks: May 6-8
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There is one point connected with individual differences, which seems to me extremely perplexing: I refer to those genera which have sometimes been called "protean" or "polymorphic," in which the species present an inordinate amount of variation; and hardly two naturalists can agree which forms to rank as species and which as varieties.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 02 (historical)
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It has protean ocular manifestations and may present with a spectrum of ocular signs, including anterior and posterior uveitis, retinal vascular sheathing, and optic disc abnormalities.
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During this interesting period, which might be called their chrysalid state, they are twisted and turned, sometimes sawn asunder, parts lopped off here and applied elsewhere, and all those radical changes made which would utterly destroy anything possessed of protean possibilities inferior to those of the common Western frame house.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
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However, I am pursuing a different sense of the protean term Machiavellian in what follows.
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Such values are flexible, protean in nature, varying even from film to film.
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His protean ability to assume different roles in his poems is often described as theatrical.