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They serve as a stand-in for Porter himself, who, though absent in the flesh, nevertheless is the central personage around which these myriad dynamics revolve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The omnipresent Emcee, a queer Jack Be Nimble, can’t be dragged to the camps because he is a thematic stage presence, more a spirit than a depicted personage with a before/during/after narrative governed by reality.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025

Security Council’s five permanent members, only the United States, in the personage of President Joe Biden, spoke.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

Another obit is devoted to Eileen Fox, a former bohemian who was a well-known personage — plump, untidy and always carrying plastic bags full of her things — on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

Some even went down upon their knees, so I knew her to be a personage of great power.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Much will come out in the exchanges between the accidental roommates that alters our perceptions of both, as well as our view of those offstage personages, living and dead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

Marx once wrote that great personages and events appear twice in history: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

Making derogatory remarks against Islamic personages is an offence - and in 1982, a clause prescribing life imprisonment for "wilful" desecration of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, was added.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2022

Nineteenth- century writers attributed the mound complexes to, among others, the Chinese, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the lost nation of Atlantis, and various biblical personages.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann