dramatis personae
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In one respect, the dramatis personae in Kananaskis helps.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025
Compounding the uneasiness, the ensemble introduces the dramatis personae in strokes that can seem unnecessarily broad.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2023
The slippage isn’t always this Ovidian, but names circulate in ways that can frustrate a strict accounting of the dramatis personae.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2021
It is an enthralling story, not least because it brings together such an extraordinary and era-defining dramatis personae.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2021
In the case of marrying, the dramatis personae include the person being married and the person doing the marrying.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
