personage

Example Sentences

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Yet it’s alarming that every decision to include a particular personage or event, every choice of word, turned into a political balancing game.

From Washington Post

Reviewing that book in 2016, my colleague Dwight Garner noted that it was “light on female personages,” adding that the author wasn’t “opening his vault or baring his soul.”

From New York Times

He has been ambushed at least eight times by a Belgian pie-thrower who targets pompous personages, and he is the subject of no fewer than four sometimes-scathing biographies.

From New York Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

Nesbit and Beattie alone are still with us, but it seems like only six months ago, to me at least, when all these personages were striding the planet.

From New York Times