personage

Neat as some of his epigrams are, his characters talk a little too much, and the scenes in which Wilde dazzles some beguiling new historical personage with his repartee are a little too overextended.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

One day, Lockshin and his classmates marched across the cobblestones of Red Square to Vladimir Lenin’s tomb to pay tribute to the waxy corpse of the country’s most sacred personage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

And his mind dwelt malevolently on a recent interview he had had with a suave personage in that very street.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

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

These personages are broadly sketched, but they needn’t be played quite so cartoonishly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

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

Even as small as we then were, some of the African and Asian personages had sent Mr. Muhammad private word that they liked his efforts to awaken and lift up the American black people.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey