Personae
Americannoun
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Personae like these — and Ray’s always inventive approach to their portraits — make this show more than just a roll call of famous names.
From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2021
In 2008, the Vatican released the “Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions,” a document that updated its older guidance on reproductive technologies.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2019
What will members of Bowie’s club make of Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae and novels such as A Clockwork Orange?
From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2018
Media » Foreign correspondents: Personae non grataeThe best books of 2013: A bountiful offeringThe Q&A: John Krokidas: How do you dramatise writing poetry?
From Economist • Dec. 5, 2013
It was first printed in 1600, and Ben Jonson amused himself by adding to its list of Dramatis Personae this piece of Character Writing:--
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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