protean

And this Orlando is played by the protean writer and performer Taylor Mac, who delivers the line while cutting a resplendent androgynous figure in shiny red boots and white, vaguely Elizabethan garb.

Faith Ringgold, who died Saturday at 93, was an artist of protean inventiveness.

This is a festival that continues to ask what it means to present a music festival — particularly one that aspires to represent an entire, protean genre.

That I didn’t know this at the time makes me want to re-imagine my relationship with the city now as something latent, something protean.

It could be said of the protean filmmaker Werner Herzog that he’s presented a monumental and wide-ranging account of himself in the form of over 60 motion pictures.