| 单词 | protean |
| 例句 | In addition to seeming eternal, ubiquitous, protean, and endlessly quotable, Franklin had the most sophisticated sense of timing among all the prominent statesmen of the revolutionary era. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The sharp smell of iodine from the algae, and the lime smell of calcareous bodies and the smell of powerful protean, smell of sperm and ova fill the air. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z So the cumulative effect of the show is to emphasize the sense of protean excess and prodigality that defines almost everything Picasso did. In a MOMA retrospective, Picasso’s sculpture is still full of surprises 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Strolling through the Tacoma Art Museum's thrilling retrospective of work by photographer Virna Haffer is a little like being exposed to a protean force of nature. Virna Haffer's photos resurrected at TAM 2011-09-21T22:51:05Z Picasso's politics were never in doubt, though this side of him is often pushed aside for a view of the artist as a protean genius and priapic monster. Picasso: War, peace and a life of extremes 2010-05-19T20:29:00Z In all, Mr. Krakoff has positioned himself as a man of protean talents, his multiple passions moving him to create chairs and lamps and a body of black-and-white photography. Reed Krakoff Will Show His First Collection Since Leaving Coach 2014-02-05T23:49:10Z But what gifted youth need is guidance from the gifted who figured out how to be graciously protean, pragmatic flourishers. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z What unites Huws's protean output is her interest in translation – not least because she grew up speaking Welsh as her first language. Artist of the week 128: Bethan Huws 2011-03-02T16:09:17Z Should a drummer offer a sturdy baseline underneath him, or would it be wiser to match the leader’s protean improvising with a dance of cymbal flutters and toms? Charles Lloyd Revels in the Flow on a Stellar Live Album 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z What is of interest is Roth’s use of this protean term; he handles it warily and with distaste. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z He emerges as a protean, inexhaustible artist, too busy to be plagued by self-doubt. Movie Review: ‘Bel Borba Aqui,’ a Documentary in Salvador de Bahia 2012-10-02T23:13:04Z By “system,” I mean the protean blob of institutions that ushers teen-agers from high school to college. The Poisonous Reach of the College-Admissions Process 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z And Mr. Larraín’s eye for the rugged beauty of Chile’s protean landscapes implies a similar argument. Review: ‘Neruda’ Pursues the Poet as Fugitive 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Mike Nichols, who died Wednesday at 83, built such a prodigious and protean résumé that it’s hard to pin him down. The Sublime Mike Nichols 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Landes patted a steady waltz on her thigh to keep time, the orchestra cartwheeled through Muhly’s protean time signatures, and together they made the old song new again. Dawn Landes, Barefoot at Lincoln Center 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z This solo, according to her website, “dwells in the untranslatable, sensual, absorbent, expansive, nonlinear, protean and mercurial nature of embodied thought.” 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Thursday was the 111th birthday of George Balanchine, the most revelatory, influential and protean ballet master in history. City Ballet Revives Three Pieces in Repertory 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Since then, he’s developed a reputation as a dependable, protean Hollywood director, sometimes mischaracterized as an action journeyman. 'Terrifyingly relevant': why Doug Liman had to recut Fair Game 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z If not, this protean possibility too easily becomes an institutionalised hobby. Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing 2012-05-18T21:50:01Z In addition to writing hundreds of his own compositions, he also arranged older tango standards to suit his protean tastes. Horacio Salgán, Argentine tango composer and musical pathbreaker, dies at 100 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z It’s a potpourri of experiments, balancing the frayed energy and funky sparring of his 1970s fusion records with layers of synthesizer and protean harmonic movement. What ‘Rubberband’ Reveals About Miles Davis’s Final Act 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z These and particularly Zorn's string quartet music capture the fullest and most remarkable aspect of his protean nature. A protean John Zorn musical marathon at LACMA and UCLA 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Mike Nichols built such a prodigious and protean résumé that it’s hard to pin him down. Mike Nichols’s Serious Showmanship 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Since the 1960s Michelangelo Pistoletto has been an energetically protean figure. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-08T23:08:45Z At the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale in Florida, “Kahlo, Rivera and Mexican Modern Art” revisits the relationship between these protean artists, locating them equally and squarely at the center of Mexican modernism. Frida Kahlo Is Having a Moment 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The Gallery is the most protean of the Sketch stable, initially an operating theatre-white backdrop to early millennial excess. David Shrigley at Sketch, London W1 – restaurant review 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z He neither boasted of his protean ambitions nor apologized for them. Pierre Cardin, Designer to the Famous and Merchant to the Masses, Dies at 98 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Zoe Leonard is a protean artist, equally engaged by the real-life events and politics of the world she inhabits and its visual phenomena. Painting for the Screen, as Well as the Canvas 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Ms. McKay is a protean talent who asks a lot of an audience. Music Review: Nellie McKay on Rachel Carson and Mother Nature 2012-03-22T20:41:49Z The Beach Boys are the sonic equivalent of having a dog whistle implanted in your medulla and then honked on by a didgeridoo player with protean bong-tested lungs. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z To Greer, that word "native" is essential, since much of the work she describes here involves identifying, and then removing, invasive plant species to return her freehold to a more protean state. In 'White Beech,' Germaine Greer finds a forest with a view 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The protean actor brings to this assignment a lithe, sinuous physicality that belies his years, while a digital clock counts down the passage of time in Burns’s too-brief life. At Edinburgh’s Festivals, Big Names and Live Issues 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The American artist's first UK public gallery show, spanning 20 years of protean output, has love heart paintings, spider webs spun from silver chains, and drawings of cloudbursts finely wrought with ink and spittle. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z But the film’s most fascinating thread tracks his prickly, protean relationship with Nelson Mandela and how the two became “uncomfortable partners” in abolishing almost a half-century of official oppression. ‘The Other Man,’ F. W. de Klerk’s Role in Ending Apartheid 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Every project tends to become all-consuming for Lee, the protean director of “Life of Pi,” “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Ice Storm.” Ang Lee on ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ 20 years later 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The goal here is less to monumentalize an artist or a style than to tell a complex story of how art is made by one person of protean energy over a specific stretch of time. The Picasso Museum Reopens in Paris 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z In this sense, Indra Devi, a protean, self-made, stateless woman forever refusing to be bound by her own history, is much more the progenitor of modern yoga culture than, say, Swami Vivekananda. What most Americans don’t know about yoga 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z With her tone as poised as it was subtly refined, she explored the many planes on which Bach's structure operates, highlighting its protean variety of texture in a performance that touched the sublime. 5 stars for 9-hour Bach Marathon 2013-04-02T10:24:08Z Popular music is a protean and ever-evolving thing, and it can be counted on to yield fresh objects of satire. Review: Andy Samberg Spoofs Pop Stars Without Spite. And That’s 4 Real. 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z "It was indescribable, so protean. He was using materials people hadn't used: medical things, sports things, the body. I thought it was amazing." Regen Projects, at 25, has grown into a fixture in L.A. art world 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Tommy adores her as well, but his protean ability to rationalize his misbehavior is a barrier to their romance. Cast helps John Patrick Shanley's 'Dreamer' from being a complete snooze 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Mike Nichols, one of America’s most celebrated directors, whose long, protean resume of critic- and crowd-pleasing work earned him adulation both on Broadway and in Hollywood, died Wednesday. Mike Nichols, Celebrated Director, Dies at 83 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “Clinton was always protean and a devoted mystery reader,” Joe Klein, the political columnist and author of the novel “Primary Colors” and “The Natural,” an account of Mr. Clinton’s presidency, said in an email. James Patterson and Bill Clinton Team Up to Write a Novel 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Birds are evidence of the miraculous and protean work of evolution and, more important, emblems of wildness in an overcivilized world. | 'The Big Year': ?The Big Year,? With Owen Wilson and Steve Martin - Review 2011-10-13T21:45:11Z The protean Simon Stephens has produced an exemplary adaptation. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Playing the Games: Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-08-04T23:06:09Z Jazz Master, Mr. Liebman, 70, has recently been working with Expansions, a spry, protean quintet. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The slippery, protean flow of Charles Lloyd’s saxophone playing seeps into the rest of his band on this live album, recorded live in Santa Barbara, Calif., on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Best Jazz Albums of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z He’s a dazzlingly protean entertainer and a charmer by temperament, what you might call a real old-fashioned song-and-dance man. Gad Elmaleh’s Translated Comedy 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z The peninsula’s easternmost third is a national park, and here the land felt almost protean. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Going at least as far back as "Orlando," there's a protean quality to many of your characters, a sense that their identity is in flux. Tilda Swinton, rock star of the art house 2010-06-19T18:01:00Z The most protean of all acoustic instruments met its brazen match. A protean John Zorn musical marathon at LACMA and UCLA 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z This pile of dead paper is presented to underscore the basic message of the exhibition: Condo is a protean artist, prolific and fluent, who works with virtuoso speed and confidence. Review | George Condo is not as complicated as he thinks he is 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In time, this imperative—at once protean, libertarian, and egoistic—would gird the edifice of Western individualism. A Renaissance Murder Mystery 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Daring lightning to strike twice, Earshot presents protean New York alto saxophonist Darius Jones at the same venue where the late great Chicago tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson played a memorable gig in 2002. Earshot Jazz Festival features a wide range of first-rate performers 2010-10-14T20:56:00Z In the current phase of his dizzyingly protean career, Soderbergh is both an intrepid genre filmmaker and an impassioned practitioner of the cinema of ideas. ‘No Sudden Move’ Review: Don’t Forget the Motor City 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z The performers, particularly the regularly excellent Nagle, are simply superb, while the protean De Santos offers up yet another achievement in her varied body of work. Gun control takes center stage in new L.A. play 'Church & State' 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z They show Garabedian to be a protean creator, an artist whose works play well with one another and with others. L.A. Louver show connects Charles Garabedian with contemporary artists like McLaughlin, Voulkos and Celmins 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z But if readers close the book still looking for a handle on the Kinks’ protean artistry, perhaps that’s for the best. ‘The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon’ — but a worldwide influence 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z And Thursday’s concert includes two groundbreaking bands built around the electric guitar: the protean guitar quartet Dither and the dreamy mixed consort Redhooker. The Week Ahead: May 22 ? 28 2011-05-20T20:21:34Z The 50 year-old's career in film - 26 protean features including "Out of Sight," "Traffic" and the "Ocean's" franchise - will effectively conclude in Cannes, the same place it was internationally launched. AP Interview: Soderbergh on quitting movies 2013-05-20T11:14:09Z By folding and unfolding the screen Ms. Islam generates different arrangements of vertical bars: a marvelously protean abstraction. Art Review: The Magic of Movies, Born From a Single Snapshot 2011-08-18T22:24:34Z The rest of the characters — sympathetic, skeptical, intimidating, and just plain evil — troop in one by one, their various personalities embodied in this extraordinary narrator’s protean voice. Review | Don’t let a bad reader ruin your audiobook experience. Here are recordings to savor — and to avoid. 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z But with its wildly protean sense of time, space and character- presence, it's still unlike anything else in films today. 'Keyhole': a mad Maddin adventure 2012-06-14T20:44:05Z He had protean diversity, Renaissance versatility, titanic energy — and bipolar extremes. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z But the truth is that in so far as she ended her tweet with a cheerful admonition to celebrate the protean nature of English, Palin is quite right. Sarah Palin: getting the Humpty 2010-07-20T19:00:00Z The scurrying, protean scherzo is filled with all sorts of unexpected orchestral colors and twists. Composer Elliott Carter’s symphonic gift for the SSO 2013-01-31T23:01:18Z The protean, multitalented Jacob first arrived in Paris in 1894, where he lackadaisically studied law and art, wrote a bit for newspapers and worked at clerical jobs. Review | Who was Max Jacob? A poet, friend of Picasso and, a new biography shows, a man who defied easy labels 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z “Paul’s protean ability to work across multiple platforms from his videos to his more elegiac light pieces and community-based performances is what particularly stood out,” said Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim’s deputy director and chief curator. Perils, Platforms and a Prize 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The public reacted to his protean character in kind: fury followed by pity. ‘The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff’: to protect or punish 2013-05-30T19:47:16Z Mr. Winterbottom, a protean and prolific filmmaker, has often shown an interest in finding the point where cinematic artifice collides with literalism. | 'The Killer Inside Me': Casey Affleck in Michael Winterbottom?s Adaptation 2010-06-17T22:56:00Z One of the many marvels of “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” is the protean quality of Jeffers’s voice. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z After more than a decade at the helm of the protean Puerto Rican group Calle 13, the incisive Spanish-language rapper and producer Residente recently split off in search of new frontiers. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Like Hamlet, Jay Gatsby is protean, a character who can support almost any interpretation thrust upon him. Review | A new look at Gatsby — as an Oxford man 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The two pieces, along with two striking rope sculptures and an amazing multi-sculpture installation, mark a new phase in an artistic career that already was protean in nature. At Frye Art Museum: Li Chen and the 'beauty of imperfection' 2012-03-14T18:53:04Z As for protean, there are those many musical worlds he inhabits as composer, saxophonist and keyboard player. A protean John Zorn musical marathon at LACMA and UCLA 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Here, we see the adult Coleman in protean form: engaged, resourceful, unwilling to be bound by the arbitrary limits of a culture against which she would push throughout her life. Should L.A. have a Wanda Coleman Memorial Library? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z It opens with the protean South American figure Joaquín Torres-García, who sets the basic geographic and stylistic coordinates for much that follows. Art Review | 'Constructive Spirit': History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas 2010-02-19T05:50:00Z Despite such news, 2015 saw jazz reassert itself as the ambitious and protean American music par excellence, its greatest practitioners reaching stunning new heights. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The protean nature of loyalty and truth proves to be at the center of this week’s story. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 11: Off With His Head 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z For this inexhaustibly protean filmmaker, the cycle was closed prematurely. Raul Ruiz, 1941-2011: Death of a Little-Known Movie Master 2011-08-22T10:20:00Z And the work of the dancers, all exquisite technicians, is a thoroughly communal feat, as they slice and scramble through protean formations, let loose in a group reverie or coalesce in almost militant unison. Review: Bill T. Jones’s Oceanic Vision 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z He emerges as a protean artist too busy to be plagued by self-doubt. 'Bel Borba Aqui': Brazilian artist literally paints the town 2012-11-21T22:33:08Z As do subsequent Public Image enablers, the protean producer and bassist Bill Laswell and the genuine classic rock drummer Ginger Baker — Mr. Lydon’s roster of collaborators over the decades has been eclectic. Review: Johnny Rotten Mellows (a Bit) With Age 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But with its wildly protean sense of time, space and character-presence, it's still unlike anything else in films today. May 30 at SIFF: 'Keyhole,' 'Price Check' 2012-05-29T20:30:08Z To do justice to his protean subject, he has arranged the works on view in thematic sectors. ‘Marks of Genius,’ Works From the Bodleian, at the Morgan 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Primal Scream exit after a rambunctious encore of the protean blues of Rocks and a defiant – if superfluous – reprise of 2013. Primal Scream – review 2013-03-22T18:23:27Z Only two years later, Friedman, its protean composer, died at 41 of complications from AIDS. Review: Lies of Love and Memory Swirl Through ‘Unknown Soldier’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Tines’s solos, foundationally operatic but with some flexibility to the protean score, serve as a through line, and his spoken parts bookend the piece, grounding the production in the text. “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z “The Promise” adopts a protean tone, now menacing, now darkly mirthful. A Family, and a Nation Under Apartheid, Tears at the Seams 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The 10 cast members are all charmingly resourceful and protean. | 'The Select (The Sun Also Rises)': ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:06Z As she developed her art, she found that she admired artists with wide-ranging sensibilities and a protean quality, especially Pablo Picasso, Joseph Beuys, Alberto Giacometti and Robert Rauschenberg. Huma Bhabha Takes an Ax to Her Exhibit at the Met 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z And he sang them — in every imaginable style, at every tempo, with every possible facial expression and every register of his handsome, protean voice. Review: Taylor Mac’s 24-Hour Concert Was One of the Great Experiences of My Life 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Though the protean actors, all first-rate, endow their roles with a zestful individuality, their characters are far more than their separate stories. Review: The Unspeakable Pain of an African-American Afterlife 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z He was often treated as an outsider artist for his protean interests, which included Indonesian gamelans, Esperanto and microtones. Essential Arts & Culture: Björk-apalooza, a master of theater, architecting L.A.'s newest museum 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Over the course of a protean half-century career in film, television and theater, Mr. McCowen’s greatest triumphs were on the stage, often in classical roles. Alec McCowen, British Actor Who Played Saint and Fool, Dies at 91 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z As befits its subject, The Sea Inside has a broader, more protean remit, but Hoare's accounts of ravens or ecstatic monks always somehow find their way back to cetaceans. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare; Feral by George Monbiot – review 2013-06-03T07:00:04Z The gleam in this protean performer’s eye is as animated as it was when he took over as King Arthur in “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” on Broadway and in London. Review: A Shakespearean Sparks Revival of 'Deathtrap' in London 2010-09-21T13:30:00Z Roth’s output was protean, too wide, too deep and too fervent to truly capture in an appraisal of this length, composed overnight after learning of his death late the previous evening. Philip Roth, a Born Spellbinder and Peerless Chronicler of Sex and Death 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Instead liberalism is a protean set of beliefs—in progress, scepticism towards authority and respect for individuals—that have been central to the formation of modern Western democracy. On the barricades 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Despite his enduring celebrity, Stravinsky’s protean output and ceaseless, shrewd self-reinventions can be difficult to capture. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z Central to its appeal was his rugged, protean tug-of-war with the pianist Kris Davis and the drummer Chad Taylor. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z In a protean acting career, he played King Lear and other Shakespearean roles and appeared in countless television shows, from “The Twilight Zone” to “Gunsmoke” to “Dynasty.” Theodore Bikel, singer, activist and Oscar-nominated actor, dies at 91 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z At times she seems protean, changing shape again and again in his arms as if to elude him. All About Odette, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z This might be a conscious tip of the cap — Bielawa has long been a vocalist in the Philip Glass Ensemble — or it might reflect her protean engagement with orchestral traditions writ large. Review: Contemporary Music Champions Celebrate With the Hits 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Don Van Vliet, the eccentric 1960s rocker who was known as Captain Beefheart during his days of protean musical creativity and who found greater financial success later in life as a painter, died Friday. Don Van Vliet, ?Captain Beefheart,? Dies at 69 2010-12-18T00:00:21Z In this 80-minute digital piece for Shakespeare Theatre Company, he shifts his gaze and protean talents to some of the best-known, most malevolent and sometimes loved characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Review | For Patrick Page, it’s Shakespeare’s bad guys who steal the show 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The cloud of adjectives that has come to hover over the Republican candidate Mitt Romney in news reports is familiar by now: smooth, smart, slick; detached, disciplined, dogged; pragmatic, protean, phony; careful, cautious, calculating. Books of The Times: ?The Real Romney,? by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman ? Review 2012-01-16T20:12:57Z The twenty-four-year-old photographer’s ornate, protean wardrobe provides a kind of disguise. A Photographer’s Elaborate Transformations in His Childhood Bedroom 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The accounts of Beiderbecke’s tremendous ear — a protean soloist on the cornet, he composed on piano — and shyness are moving. ‘Bix’ Review: A Jazz Legend Fondly Remembered 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Glen E. Friedman mined that territory during the protean years of punk, hip-hop and skateboarding on both coasts. Punk, hip-hop and rock are the focus of new photobooks 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Piet, a tall, thin San with a kind smile, picked us up at the airport, adding two more to the protean pool of volunteers — a head count of 42 during my stay. At a Namibian sanctuary, you don’t just see the wildlife — you care for them Picabia represents a link between the conceptual approach of Marcel Duchamp, his peer and friend, and the protean genius of Pablo Picasso. MoMA Plans a Fall Show Centered on Francis Picabia 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z And Rogers, after years of performing — she had self-released two albums by the time she was 20 — found other shades in her own already protean vocals. Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z In the first comprehensive biography of Said, Brennan, a former student, highlights the Palestinian scholar’s complexity, delivering a portrait of a thinker, activist and musician endowed with an unusually restless and protean intellect. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z It also reflects the protean nature of the show itself. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 7: Who’s Daniel? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z If we listen openly without judging what we hear, the world’s fleeting, aggregate sounds become protean music in space and time. Helen Pridmore and friends to perform the experimental music of John Cage and Earle Brown 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The ghost story shape-shifts because ghosts themselves are so protean — they emanate from specific cultural fears and fantasies. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The criticism has been a necessary corrective to the unsustainable myth of the artist as protean genius beyond the mores of time, place and society. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z And the title “Changeling” surely is connected to the protean nature of this solo: He’s constantly changing shape and character. L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Harrowing, funny and imaginative, this novel explores the world of a has-been music producer and assorted cohorts who are overwhelmed by time, change and age — all told through Egan's inimitable and protean voice. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z Hopper’s art is protean, restless and unabashedly American. | "Dennis Hopper Double Standard" 2010-07-26T19:11:00Z Richard Wagner: composer, conductor, dramatist, poet, polemicist, anarchist, Teutonic nationalist, anti-Semite, feminist, pacifist, vegetarian, animal rights activist — the man was the walking, talking definition of “protean genius.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z No one took deep-dish melodrama more seriously or brought more conviction and skill to its execution than the protean Edgar G. Ulmer. UCLA film festival a fascinating window into our cinematic past 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The protean actress ventures into musical theater, trying on for size the poignant role of Desiree Armfeldt in this Signature Theatre revival. Perspective | Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the theatrical sun 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z If the protean Mr. Kelly has had one recurring theme through the years, it is the shaping of the self through art. Review: In ‘Time No Line,’ John Kelly Revisits Decades of Diary Entries 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z His recollections are certainly of interest, but his protean talent is more impressive still. ‘Learning to Live Together’ Review: Remaking a Once-in-a-Lifetime Band 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It seems only right that in his later years this protean figure divided his time between two places: Sweden and Africa, where he was artistic director of a theater company in Mozambique. Review | Five years after Henning Mankell’s death, his gritty first novel makes a welcome appearance 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Ezhokina's supple sway on the keyboards dovetailed beautifully with Singer's protean precision on the cello. In Leavenworth, the hills come alive with the sounds of chamber music 2011-07-15T20:42:37Z Muso was a protean figure, a poet, an influential garden designer and a religious leader. Asia Week Art in Manhattan Galleries 2010-03-25T22:02:00Z And this thoughtful and well-presented show — the Shed’s first attempt at a major retrospective of this kind — reveals a protean artist who is in many ways even more visionary than expected. Review | Neglected visionary Agnes Denes altered our landscape with her art. At 88, she’s finally getting her due. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The sea becomes an organism in need of impossible repair, and the speaker becomes the sea itself, protean and powerful. How a Poet Named Ocean Means to Fix the English Language 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z But suddenly, near the end, he begins to celebrate the man’s protean talents. ‘The Bettencourt Affair,’ a Buffet for Scandal Aficionados 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z While the protean “Cyphers” moves the audience around and through the dancers, “Autarcie,” for four women, finds possibilities in the limitations of a stage. Hip-Hop Dance at the Crossing the Line Festival 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Whatever else it is, Holy Motors is a two-hour product reel for its prodigious, protean star. Holy Motors: Leos Carax Flirts with a Cinematic Masterpiece 2012-10-19T15:07:14Z His protean career was surely unique, as he sang and recorded more vocal music than any who came before. 2012 review: notable deaths in music 2012-12-24T09:00:08Z For the Beastie Boys, that means pilfering from the younger versions of themselves, which means in turn pilfering from the protean rhyme schemes and rap-along chants of the Furious 5 or the Cold Crush Brothers. White Rappers Paying Homage to the Past 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z “Dr. Bernard seems to delight in being a surprising person,” Fortune magazine wrote about this protean character in 1933, and Mr. Love entertainingly explains what Fortune meant. Books of The Times: ?The Great Oom,? by Robert Love, on Yoga?s Pierre Bernard 2010-04-14T22:33:00Z With playing that’s slashing and sensitive by turns, Beck’s recital accentuates the through lines in a protean artistic life. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Before anyone quite knew what was happening, a novelty turned into a major and protean art form, complete with a pantheon of heroic creators. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Story of Film: An Odyssey,? by Mark Cousins, at MoMA 2012-01-31T23:43:58Z Somewhere, a protean boy band is without its next stage outfit. | Nordstrom Rack: Thrift Shopping at Nordstrom Rack in Manhattan 2010-06-16T18:27:00Z But Hollywood’s resistance to her protean talents proved a gift, igniting her ambition, making her more tenacious, industrious and brash. Sally Field’s relentless quest for respect: ‘The roles I cared about deeply I had to fight for’ 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z In the theatre, a protean room adaptable from arena to proscenium use at roughly 10 minutes' notice, I saw four different shows in four hours. Observer archive, 1968: the Arts Lab, a ramshackle prototype for the ICA 2013-04-27T23:04:10Z For Koechlin was one of the most protean of composers, impossible to categorise or to fit comfortably into a neatly ordered scheme of 20th-century music, and always liable to spring a suprise. Koechlin: L'Ancienne Maison de Campagne Op 124; Sonatines Op 59; 12 Esquisses Op 41 etc ? review 2010-12-02T22:04:00Z In Emily Nemens’s protean debut novel, “The Cactus League,” rather than hope springing eternal and all that, the season seems suspect before it’s begun. Review | Emily Nemens’s ‘The Cactus League’ is a nostalgic look at the world of baseball 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Sweeney’s effectiveness as a novelist stems from her protean sympathy, her ability to move among these characters and capture each one’s feelings without judgment. Review | ‘Good Company,’ Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s follow-up to ‘The Nest,’ is a sweeter novel with higher stakes 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Murray, who died in 1985, was one of the most influential and protean figures of the 20th century. AFI Docs shows us where the histories are buried, and why that matters more than ever 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z You don’t need to know that R. Kelly wrote, by his own count, 462 songs in preparation for “The Buffet,” his 13th album, to understand that he is a protean character. Review: R. Kelly’s New Album, ‘The Buffet,’ Offers Sex and Sentiment 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr. James, a singer-songwriter of protean instinct, receives due credit for the band’s multiplicity. On Top, Unafraid to Step Back 2011-05-26T23:16:38Z “The truth is that I was profoundly affected by the oldest protean temptation of man: that of multiplicity.” Underneath Romain Gary’s Many Masks 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Her protean aspect — her manner of showing both a realist and an experimental face, sometimes in the space of a single page — exposes the limitations of such sorting. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z “The Velvet Underground” has some of those elements, but it’s directed by Todd Haynes, a protean filmmaker who never met a genre he couldn’t deconstruct. ‘The Velvet Underground’ Review: And Me, I’m in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Michael Cepress' costumes add to the flow and flair of the protean dance action. Review: Seattle dancer-choreographer Catherine Cabeen explores a dreamlike 'Void' 2011-04-29T21:00:05Z A more accurate translation of the title would be “Dr. Mabuse the Player,” for this protean villain is also an actor. An Evil Doctor Who Casts a Spell on Subjects and Viewers Alike 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Although he never achieved broad stardom, his legato playing and protean harmonic flow influenced a generation of guitarists. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Not in the modern sense, though an idea of female power as a protean force was central to her thinking, as it was to the writers she loved: Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot. ‘I’m Nobody’? Not a Chance, Emily Dickinson 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Most of them took full advantage of the expansive cast to flood the stage with voluminous dancing and protean spatial patterns, eliciting generous, undaunted, electric performances from their students. Juilliard Students Star in ‘New Dances: Edition 2014’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The most charitable conclusion is that this is seriously protean stuff capable of speedy adaptation to suit whatever environment and host it comes across. Prometheus: what was that about? Ten key questions 2012-06-08T15:27:22Z Towering stone pillars change position in Julia Hansen’s sets, suggesting the protean power of tyranny and the danger of lives lived in the shadows, but they transform awkwardly. Review: ‘Poliuto,’ a Rare Donizetti Bel Canto Thriller 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Whether it's Dionysus's protean transformations or the bodies of the dead being reclaimed by nature, matter is constantly churning into new shapes, decaying and reforming in an endless and inescapable cycle. Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson – review 2013-03-01T17:45:01Z Mr. Russell Beale, for one, got to play to his strengths in the continuing “Mr. Foote’s Other Leg,” the Ian Kelly play that granted its protean star a camp flourish here and knowing aside there. Review: A Year of Greek Revivals on the London Stage 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Szwed is an ideal match for his fretful, protean subject. Books of The Times: He Heard America Singing 2011-01-30T17:14:05Z It is stark and sometimes gruesome; this show loves blood, both as object and protean symbol. Review: In ‘Yellowjackets,’ It’s Reunion Time for the Crash of ’96 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Wielding large paintbrushes, larger squeegee/scrapers and even the odd carving knife, Richter puts his canvases through a protean dance. 'Gerhard Richter Painting': A glimpse of the German artist in action 2012-03-22T20:04:04Z Top it off with his lovely holiday album from 2011, “A Dreamers Christmas,” if you find yourself cheered by Zorn’s consistently protean energies. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Instead Moving Sidewalks was a protean pop band with a flamboyant, blues-thick gumbo sound and a template for what ZZ Top would eventually become. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z Like this city, there’s a protean quality to the pattern. Been about that bandana print 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Being able to see these protean qualities in technology and the way we interact with it can enlarge our understanding of what it is. From "holy hype" to AI sentience, tech has a history of inflating its potential 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Best known for her role as diabolical Russian assassin Villanelle on “Killing Eve,” Comer is a protean presence with a gestural grace and an organic affinity for the stage. Review | Jodie Comer comes to Broadway and turns the heat up full blast 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z He was one of America's most Janus-faced leaders, a protean figure who could sincerely shift from the pragmatic reformer to the vengeful autocrat without any apparent qualms. Thoughtful pragmatist or unhinged bigot? Why experts are rethinking Nixon's psychopathology 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z His most important musical affiliation began in 1964, when he joined what would become known as Davis’s “second great quintet” following the one that the protean trumpeter led in the 1950s with Coltrane. Wayne Shorter, jazz musician of innovation and introspection, dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z A decider seldom gets pure justice or has full control over his fate, because competition is protean, it moves. Perspective | Kyle Shanahan’s next trick: Pursuing the playoffs with Mr. Irrelevant 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Being able to see these protean qualities in technology and the way we interact with it can enlarge our understanding of what it is. From "holy hype" to AI sentience, tech has a history of inflating its potential 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z This exhibition, is only one of a number of museum projects tied to the protean Forten family of educators, poets, photographers, writers, and activists. Family heirlooms retrace the history of Black James Forten 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The women’s creations are simultaneously fixed and protean. Review | In the galleries: Sculptures take us beyond the conventional 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The Armory has been a protean play space, some inspiring combination of coliseum, soundstage and great chamber. Perspective | A New York armory from the Gilded Age is a haven for the cutting edge 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Without Mr. Johnson’s protean appeal to those voters, he added, social and cultural issues are “the only glue that holds it together.” Boris Johnson May Be Fading Out, but Not the Divisions He Stoked 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Less than three years after he entered Downing Street, before riding a wave of pro-Brexit passion to win a landslide election victory, Mr. Johnson seemed cornered — a protean political gambler finally out of moves. Allies Abandon Boris Johnson Amid Latest Scandal, but He Vows to Go On 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z They also offered vocal support or counterpoint, melding with or expanding the reach of Harding’s protean voice. Review | Aldous Harding takes audience on a stirring quest for unexpected tones 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z "It is fascinating that they have been so protean, that they can find a way for people to still tolerate them. That kind of longevity, I find fascinating. Other than that, nothing else," he said. Queen's Platinum Jubilee: The Nigerian boss who applied to be monarch's footman 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z While Japan has high vaccination rates and has performed better than most other wealthy countries at keeping the pandemic in check, the virus’s protean nature has made it difficult to predict its path. Japan’s Economy Shrank 1 Percent as Consumers Fled Covid 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Among Klagsbrun’s notable influences is Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” whose tales of transformation — often of women altered by imperious gods — suit the artist’s interest in protean forms. Review | In the galleries: Voyages through time, space and the seas 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z It must have a “protean character,” which enhances “its appeal, allowing its proponents to move in directions both old and new, right and left.” Review | How the neoliberal order triumphed — and why it’s now crumbling 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z In “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” Cage is at the top of his protean, in-for-a-penny game. Review | Nicolas Cage lifts ‘Unbearable Weight’ into comedy heaven 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z They are protean, shifting adroitly with the political winds, moving from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons to liberal interventionists. Pimps of war: Neocons who fueled 20 years of carnage in the Middle East are back for more 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z “This formulation fails to capture the protean sequelae of prolonged, repeated trauma.” Borderline Personality Disorder May Be Rooted in Trauma 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z This protean assembly provides Hannaham the ideal entry to an exploration of self, consciousness and creativity. Review | ‘Pilot Impostor’ proves that James Hannaham is one of America’s most inventive writers 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Williams’s protean genius supercharged the otherwise formulaic 1993 movie comedy on which the musical is based, about a divorced dad who masquerades as a female nanny so he can be with his kids. Review | Minus Robin Williams, ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ is not quite herself 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z As the world’s third-largest economy, after the United States and China, it was able to spend the billions needed to orchestrate these protean games, with their mounting costs and changing demands. Only Tokyo could pull off these Games? Not everyone agrees 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z The observational style and protean subject evoke the original rock doc, D.A. Trust with his subject takes R.J. Cutler's Billie Eilish film to a new level of intimacy 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Still, Dudamel steps into a huge challenge for even a protean conductor. Gustavo Dudamel is Paris Opera's next music director. What does this mean for L.A.? 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z The most important difficulty in comparing Biden and Roosevelt may be the latter’s character, which was so pragmatic and protean that even his closest aides sometimes had trouble getting a handle on it. Column: Is Biden the next FDR? That depends on what you think about the New Deal 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z For Thurman, the most pressing danger of the fascist masquerade was its protean quality, its myriad guises and disguises. Howard Thurman's "Fascist Masquerade": The Black thinker who saw this coming, 75 years ago 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z “The forces and directions of the internet are so new, so protean and so far-reaching that courts must be conscious that what they say today might be obsolete tomorrow.” Can Twitter Legally Bar Trump? The First Amendment Says Yes 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Every project tends to become all-consuming for Lee, the protean director of “Life of Pi,” “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Ice Storm.” Ang Lee on ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ 20 years later 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z You read that right: “distracted and insecure” — words most would not associate with the forward-thinking, protean artist with the inquisitive intellect, superlative individuality and sniper-precise charm. Review: A young David Bowie tours America in unrevealing biopic 'Stardust' 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Staring into a computer screen for a protean two-hour performance work is testing. Commentary: Theaters nobly fill the COVID void, but screens make me miss the stage even more 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z There can be no question that this protean composer, performer, scholar, professor, administrator and genial gadfly exerts a profound influence on how music is made, thought about and might be listened to in our times. Why George Lewis' revolutionary 'Shadowgraph, 5' can last 3 minutes or 4 hours 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z “These companies need to be fleet-footed. Risk is protean, it changes all the time,” said Michael Millette, managing partner of insurance asset manager Hudson Structured Capital Management. As insurers face hefty pandemic losses, newcomers see chance to step in 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Vesta’s protean musings on the details of Magda’s death also spiral her back into memories of her own late husband, Walter, and the ways in which he distorted her sense of self. In ‘Death In Her Hands,’ a widow investigates a mysterious death — and her own past — in the nearby woods 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z To the last week of his life, he was actively involved with the future of the Washington National Opera; to the very end, plans for new projects were percolating in his protean mind. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Sportswriters in and out of bounds 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z So, the mortality rate, instead of being a fixed number that distills the true essence of the virus’s danger, is actually a protean, organic, fluid metric. So How Deadly Is COVID-19? 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z As Shapland writes, “alive or dead, the author is a protean form, just as the self slips constantly beneath one’s feet.” Review: Queer authors reinvent the artist biography as revisionist memoir 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z And yet, the notion of pure “originality” doesn’t really wash for the movies, the most ravenous and protean of art forms. Review: ‘Downhill’ a showcase for Louis-Dreyfus and Ferrell 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z She’s proud but practical, solid but protean, conventional but a little wicked in ways she doesn’t quite recognize, or at least won’t admit to. Performances we love: Mary McCormack's smart, subversive mom in 'The Kids Are Alright' 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Government was slow to react, in part because fentanyl is devilishly protean. Opinion | Congress should act to allow a ban on fentanyl indefinitely 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z “In sum, Roe’s jurisprudence has been characterized by Delphic confusion and protean change,” the lawmakers wrote. More Than 200 Republicans Urge Supreme Court to Weigh Overturning Roe v. Wade 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z "Roe's jurisprudence has been characterized by Delphic confusion and protean change," the members wrote. Could Roe v. Wade be overturned? Hundreds of members of Congress sign amicus brief ahead of key SCOTUS case 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z But not even the protean De Niro can reverse the relentless march of time. Robert De Niro said no green screen. No face dots. How 'The Irishman's' de-aging changes Hollywood 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z David Copperfield is the second half of Dickens’s writing career in protean form. 'It's full of one-liners': Armando Iannucci on why we should all read David Copperfield 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z By contrast, his music films celebrate the protean self. Todd Haynes Rewrites the Hollywood Playbook 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Cabin visitors fight protean spirits of the dead with a chainsaw, a shotgun and Egyptian incantations. Movies on TV this week: Sept. 29: 'Almost Famous' and more 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s that protean plasticity, combining pieces of many different eras, that marks Olsen’s vocal style. Angel Olsen’s Songs Made People Cry. Now She Wants Them to Swoon. 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z The indefatigable Toledo was a protean figure who, apart from his vast artworks, was also a social activist, cultural conservationist, environmentalist, teacher and philanthropist. Appreciation: Francisco Toledo, a colossus of Mexican culture 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The Handmaid’s Tale remains Atwood’s most protean novel, with so much to say about how quickly and easily democracy can be dismantled. Margaret Atwood: ‘She’s ahead of everyone in the room’ 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z That vast shake-up in understanding of the cosmos led Kandinsky to ponder how to capture the protean nature of material reality, and fed into his ideas on abstraction. The Bauhaus at 100: science by design 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z It was capitalized upon and marketed, and market forces just absorbed everything in this protean way. Billionaires can't fix college: Jim Sleeper on the real crisis in higher education 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Notre Dame testified to this protean reality in its varied composition. Victor Hugo gave Notre Dame life as the vibrant heart of France. It can be reborn | Bradley Stephens 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z But by near-unanimous critical agreement, the completed books constitute a masterpiece of historical narrative and art criticism, worthy of a protean painter, sculptor, printmaker and ceramist who often compared himself to God. John Richardson, art connoisseur and biographer of Picasso, dies at 95 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z When “Barry” débuted, last spring, Hader’s protean qualities were well established, from eight years on “Saturday Night Live” and a gallery of vivid film roles. Bill Hader Kills 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The poems in “Oculus” are rangy, protean, contradictory. Sally Wen Mao Writes Visionary Poems for a Blinkered World 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z More, please: Films like the ones above that showcase the endless possibilities of the protean art of animation. Under the radar: Nick Park, a stop-motion short and alternative anime 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the protean Jefferson Mays gave resounding theatrical voice to the panoply of eccentrics in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” in a solo tour de force dexterously directed by Michael Arden. Best theater in 2018: A brave 'Cost of Living,' a radical 'Fairview' and a new star in 'Evan Hansen' 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z It became a protean, fecund region for hybridization. A call for a rational future, 100 million years of European history, and the hidden horror of the dairy trade: Book in brief 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Despite its well-deserved reputation for unpleasantness, Nauman’s work is protean and wide-ranging enough to be, at times, observant, watchful and open. Bruce Nauman, the Artist’s Artist 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z China’s vast, protean economy is certainly difficult to enumerate. China’s statistics are bad. Many criticisms of them are worse 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z “Synthesis” is arranged chronologically, perhaps the best organizing principle for a career as protean as Piper’s. Adrian Piper’s Show at MoMA is the Largest Ever for a Living Artist. Why Hasn’t She Seen It? 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Much of the life of Leonardo da Vinci, the protean Italian Renaissance artist, is as mysterious as his most famous creation: the “Mona Lisa.” Leonardo in an Art Workshop: The Boy Most Likely to Succeed 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Privacy is clearly a protean concept, and Igo deftly reviews the definitions that scholars have offered in their efforts to cage its elusive essence. Review | How we balance our right to privacy with our collective need for information 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z I have been conjuring with his protean output for nearly 50 years. Roth a bard of the unbridled libido, but also a writer whose passing brings tears 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Philip Roth, the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th century literature, died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan. Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z I’m drawn to the human brain, its unforgiving and protean nature. My Patient’s Smile 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Among the reasons the protean movement to abolish prisons fizzled was its refusal to speak in plainly moral terms. Think prison abolition in America is impossible? It once felt inevitable | Joshua Dubler and Vincent Lloyd 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Fascism derives its power from channelling the protean, potentially liberating force of human desire towards hatred, distorting it into a desire for death and blood. What do incels, fascists and terrorists have in common? Violent misogyny | Jason Wilson 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Williams is protean — warrior, queen, muscular glamour girl, nobody's idea of a mother, the very essence of motherhood. ‘Being Serena’ shows off Serena Williams’ strengths but doesn't shy away from moments of weakness 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z The Sixties are too protean to be hemmed in by calendrical niceties. 1968: the year that changed America 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The other is that we are too protean, too creative, to be captured by single theory. Is Science Infinite? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z The protean Kelly Macdonald gets a rare starring role in a deft, feelingly done character drama about an ordinary housewife and mother who discovers an exceptional gift for jigsaw puzzles. Sundance film festival: Unleashed, indeed. This year's lineup looks to be the strongest in years. – LA Times 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z From nearly 6-foot Baroque-style obelisks to a colorful abstract by contemporary American painter Bill Scott, the lots highlight Mr. Pinto’s protean taste. Bid On a World-Famous Decorator’s Personal Collection 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Williams is protean — warrior, queen, muscular glamour girl, nobody's idea of a mother, the very essence of motherhood. ‘Being Serena’ shows off Serena Williams’ strengths but doesn't shy away from moments of weakness 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Another paper, founded in a moment filled with protean possibility. Partition, 70 years on: Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie and other writers reflect 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Feminism can only be protean: it’s an attempt to think systematically and critically about the relationship to power of half the human race. Drama queens: why it’s all about women and power on screen right now 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Goethe was a man of protean talents, interests, appetites and achievements who lived through a particularly tempestuous period of wars and revolutions in Europe. Goethe’s life as a work of art 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The movie’s finest scene casts this superbly protean actor opposite himself, and Fassbender rises to the occasion with a dual performance that transcends its stunt-like conception. Ridley Scott's 'Alien: Covenant' is a sleek, suspenseful return to form 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z I despise her even more now, as I see her as the protean figure of Ann Coulter and Kelly Ann Conway, not the column dress wearing goddess of her fascist revelries. Opinion | Why You Should Read Books You Hate 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Yevtushenko was a protean figure, larger than lifesize, not nearly as transparent as his self-revelatory, straight-talking persona would suggest, often ambiguous in his public roles. Yevgeny Yevtushenko obituary 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Dialects are regional variants of language, and language is a protean thing whose evolution follows the same principles as those for genes and species in nature. Not just dwingey chimbles: dialects are alive and kicking 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Populists in the Jackson tradition, political theorists say, are protean in character. In Inaugural Address, Trump Continues to Shun Establishment 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z From protean bodies to distributed brains, their wondrous otherness leads Godfrey-Smith into fascinating speculations on the alien mind. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Stewart’s protean efforts have been erased from the internet. The trolling of Elon Musk: how US conservatives are attacking green tech 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z His self-effacing style is less gritty naturalism than the protean largesse of a Chekhov or Shakespeare; he is constantly upstaged by his characters. Once forgotten, now acclaimed: Henry Green’s novels return 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Transparency is one of them: when your e-mails are leaked, or your hot-mike blunders are unearthed, your “protean” personality becomes a vulnerability. Red Neighbor, Blue Neighbor 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Fresh off 2012’s “Bruce,” his take on another quintessentially American subject, Carlin provides a brisk and engaging overview of Simon’s career and protean musical output. Rock’n’roll’s first intellectual sophisticate: Paul Simon 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z To remain free, to act in good faith, is to remain the undefined, free, protean creatures we actually are, even if this is an anxious way to live. The Meaning of Bob Dylan’s Silence 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Indefatigable and protean, Clinton read the disaffected landscape and adapted in her characteristic style—with a policy agenda. Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z As for Mandarin itself, the once-artificial construct is now showing signs of becoming a living, protean thing—witness the fun around duang. Let not a billion tongues bloom 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z As individuals, she writes, “we are many-sided, if not protean, personalities,” and we each inhabit many “differentiated spheres with their own identifiable norms and institutions.” Red Neighbor, Blue Neighbor 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z He described a movement of protean adaptability, whose methods resembled those of terrorist groups and criminal organizations; they framed opponents by planting evidence or blackmailed them with information gleaned from wiretaps. Turkey’s Thirty-Year Coup 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Literally nothing is still in Plastic’s procedurally protean, gorgeously painted sweeps. Review: 'Bound' Is Beautiful to Watch, But Boring to Play 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z While Bill Clinton was protean and natural, Hillary and Barack were more studious, cautious, set in their ways, preferring the rational over the emotional. Obama hands back the baton as he prepares to exit national stage 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z That decision evaporated in the mists of Justice Kennedy’s protean jurisprudence. Justice Kennedy Overturns Himself 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Obama called the air strike an “important milestone” in terminating that other vestige of the Cold War: the protean, never-ending conflict in Afghanistan. What the U.S. Strike on the Taliban Means for Peace in Afghanistan 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z By the time he stepped into "The Grand Budapest Hotel," brilliantly skewering — and deepening — his own costume-drama repertoire, it was clear that he was just beginning to explore the full measure of his protean gift. Review: 'A Bigger Splash' has deceptive depth 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Throughout a long and protean literary career, his passion for insects remained unwavering. Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Illustrator 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Because events, on the whole, are more protean than people, leaders grow less satisfying with time, as the stories they’re ready to tell diverge from the stories we want to hear. Our Dangerous Leadership Obsession 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z This solo show, an off-Broadway sleeper by the protean James Lecesne about the disappearance of a teen whose fabulousness doesn’t conform to restrictive Jersey Shore gender expectations, is what you’ve been waiting for. Critics Picks: Critics' Picks: Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2016 - Los Angeles Times 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Today, Mr. Trump’s brief ownership of the Plaza is one of the least-known chapters of a protean career. What Donald Trump’s Plaza Deal Reveals About His White House Bid 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z He said that the authorities were confronted with a “protean” terrorist threat involving not only highly organized and coordinated attacks but also isolated acts by individuals receptive to Islamic State propaganda. Fingerprint of Fugitive in Paris Attacks Is Found in Brussels Apartment 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z As I have pointed out, there are at least 40 different definitions of complexity--some of which involve information, another notoriously protean concept. Can Integrated Information Theory Explain Consciousness? 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The eldest son of an army family, Burton had a protean character shaped on the road as his parents moved their young family restlessly around France and Italy. Anthropology: One-man multidisciplinarian : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Ant and Cat and several other early Glass prototypes are exhibited together with more protean wearables such as custom gear built in the ’90s by members of the MIT Wearable Computing Project. This Insider Look At Google Glass Shows How Google Should -- And Should Not -- Design Glass 2.0 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Reddit, at a distance, is a protean mass of self-regulating communities, but its central function is very straightforward: it is a machine that promotes kitsch. Reddit's sound and fury 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Much of the 127-piece collection was created on tour from 2013 onward, and the work channels both that energy and isolation with protean flair. The Kills' Alison Mosshart brings Fire Power to her first art show 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z "Mr Romney is a man of admirable personal character, but his political profile is, well, protean," they write. Romney 2016: The 'definition of insanity'? 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z His one term in the Senate was protean, with Webb focusing on issues as diverse as the reestablishment of relations with Burma, and prison reform, and the new GI bill for Iraq-Afghanistan veterans. Jim Webb is Running 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Bitcoin’s protean nature – a currency, payment system, commodity, transfer ledger and potentially much more – has made it difficult for regulators to respond. Will US Regulations Threaten America's Technological Edge In Virtual Currencies? 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z This idea of the personality as suddenly protean under the pressure of loss belongs fundamentally to the literature of grief because, of course, it belongs to the experience. Colm Tóibín: the literature of grief 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z McVie’s comeback restores the enduring and protean group’s flagship configuration, whose mid- to late-70s albums entered roughly as many homes as the products of, let’s say, General Electric. Fleetwood Mac is back: Christine McVie sings again as the tour starts anew 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The word was meant, with a perfectly Beyoncé-esque mixture of poise and provocation, to encompass every other aspect of her complicated and protean identity. The Death of Adulthood in American Culture 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Che Ting Chan of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and his co-workers have proposed a new field called illusion optics, which enables this more or less infinitely protean shape-shifting. Vanishing point: five ways to become invisible 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z It offered an engrossing look at both the artist’s protean creative practice — a brand of conceptualism spanning photography, performance, sculpture and the prodigious use of social media — and his habit of political provocation. ‘Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case’ movie review: An angry bear arises from his slumber Even with Blunt charismatically holding her own, the undisputed star of “Edge of Tomorrow” is Cruise, who, as the story’s reluctant hero, delivers a one-man master class in his own fascinatingly protean screen presence. Tom Cruise has still got it in “Edge of Tomorrow.” The Bush clan’s strength comes from being more peripatetic and protean. Game of Thrones “The word I use for the al Qaeda movement is protean,” she said. “It’s constantly shifting, which makes it harder for governments to track.” Boko Haram shows changing al Qaeda threat 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Their art is both protean and of a piece, riddled with weaknesses — fussbudgety viewers can have a field day with Polke; they did with Kelley — that add up to a strength. Art Review: A Sigmar Polke Retrospective Opens at MoMA 2014-04-17T22:46:12Z The animal’s habits are as protean as its name. Catfight: How mountain lions are struggling to survive 2014-03-09T21:00:00Z It’s time to recognize that such a protean enemy requires multiple and constantly shifting responses, including fighting for people’s hearts and minds with words and images of the reality of jihad. The War Against Terror Must Be Fought With Words Too 2013-12-16T10:45:57Z Something similar could be said of Khan’s protean politics. From Hospital Bed, Imran Khan Still Eyes Victory in Pakistan Election 2013-05-10T06:35:25Z Design is emerging as the prototypical 21st century profession, both protean and integrative. Adobe's Creative Cloud And The Expansive Future Of The Digital Workplace 2013-05-06T22:52:22Z The company’s "factory floor manager" maintains the protean seating chart, constantly mixing and matching colleagues and projects. Taking Teamwork to the Extreme 2013-04-18T16:30:51Z Empowering individuals weakens organizations – and thus companies are becoming decentralized, virtual, protean. Why Your Kid Can't Get a Job 2013-03-31T14:07:59Z Capitalism values thrift and aggressiveness, its heroes are the protean, self-made men of industry. What to Look for in a New Pope 2013-03-09T00:05:49Z But if he can find a way to exploit this moment this most protean of politicians may find a way to leave the legacy he craves. Californian politics: Brownian motion 2012-11-15T16:05:22Z One of the more contentious debates in modern public health, as it wrestles with relentlessly epidemic obesity and its protean consequences, is the role of personal responsibility. Health Buzz: Number of West Nile Cases Continues to Spike 2012-08-23T14:09:00Z August 23, 2012 One of the more contentious debates in modern public health, as it wrestles with relentlessly epidemic obesity and its protean consequences, is the role of personal responsibility. Food Fight: School Lunch, a 'Battlefield' 2012-08-23T12:30:00Z Hood argues that our protean personalities allow us to adapt to new surroundings. MIND Reviews: The Self Illusion 2012-06-15T16:45:11.697Z Hereupon, the process termed imagination produces its protean and infinitely diversified forms. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z In classic times Our traditions of the blind Homer, singing his Iliad in the multitudinous places of his protean nativity, do not vouchsafe us any information as to the status of authors in his day. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z In the spring he returned to Copenhagen with recovered health and spirits, and worked quietly at his protean literary labours until the great fire of 1728. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z We note, in the first place, its protean and capricious form, half Judaistic, half philosophical—ascetic in one direction, libertine in another: “tossed by the waves, and carried about with every wind.” The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z The presence of germs in puerperal fever serves not only to fix cases hitherto doubtful in the category of septic diseases, but affords the most satisfactory explanation of the protean phenomena of puerperal fever itself. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The pansy, that protean offspring from lowly "johnny-jumper," occasionally comes very near embracing the entire gamut of color to which its name, Viola tricolor, would seem to entitle it. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z Such a faith would necessarily be protean in its aspects. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z It meets one at every turn, and in protean shapes. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z This decision reached, he spent all of his time in convincing her that he was the one man in the world exactly suited to her protean moods. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z “Forrest Church was a protean figure, inhabiting the roles of pastor, public intellectual and theologian with uncommon ability,” the author writes. Bookshelf: Books on a Pastor?s Odyssey, a Politician and Urban Gardens 2012-01-28T05:05:09Z As this is happening, though, the protean Internet technologies of computing and communications are rapidly spreading beyond the lucrative consumer bailiwick. News Analysis: The Internet Gets Physical 2011-12-17T20:09:31Z Skepticism is becoming more general, and is protean in its adaptibility to circumstances. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z The big idea: Knowledge—previously a finite body of expert opinion and accepted fact—is now, thanks to the Internet, unbounded, protean, and impossible to master. Book Review: Too Big to Know 2011-12-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Jobs, the brilliant and protean creator whose inventions so utterly transformed the allure of technology, turned those childhood lessons into an all-purpose theory of intelligent design. Books of The Times: ?Steve Jobs? by Walter Isaacson - Review 2011-10-22T02:11:22Z The lesions would be scattered and consequently the symptoms might be protean in character. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z They speak of its "protean" forms; whereas, in my humble judgment, its forms are by no means specially numerous. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z Among these shape or figure stands pre-eminent, notwithstanding the acknowledged fact that some varieties are almost protean. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z She had not seen this protean property of Genius just at first. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z An allied genus, Enteromorpha, is protean in its forms, which have been classed under many species. Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils 2011-08-20T02:00:11.557Z Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way. Will the speed of online reading deplete our analytic thought? 2011-08-14T13:29:01Z The drawings will afford some idea of these protean changes, but they must be seen before their harlequin character can be thoroughly appreciated. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z It is the vice of free thinking that it spreads universal uncertainty, and assumes right and wrong to be so protean that no man can tell one hour what opinion he shall hold the next. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Electricity is the right hand of Deity, the tongue of the Spirit, the Word of Omnipotent power, the protean cosmic force and creative machinery of the universe. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Contemporaries hailed its "protean adaptability" and marveled at how Baekeland had transformed something as foul-smelling and nasty as coal tar—long a discard in the coking process—into this wondrous new substance. A Brief History of Plastic's Conquest of the World 2011-05-29T14:15:02.467Z His ever-changing, protean poems are the scriptures of a distinctive New World romanticism. Do we need a new Bible? 2011-05-10T11:01:00Z The protean Mailer died in 2007 at age 84; Norris Church, his wife of 27 years, died last November at 61. Norman Mailer?s Eclectic Life, as Seen Through His Last Home 2011-05-03T01:40:08Z Most who think that way give two reasons: the near-comical weakness of the Republican field and Obama's protean ability to pose as a pragmatist surrounded by zealots. Why Obama is the favorite for 2012 2011-03-17T15:18:00Z It is peculiarly difficult to draw general conclusions from the study of a movement so protean. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z Only, one can always say, it is protean, it is most lovely, and it is not water. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z And bits of a bird-primer flew across his mind, casting the same delicate, protean shadows against the wall where thought stopped helplessly. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z The trained interviewer can take a protean shape, and introduce himself under disguise of the most sympathetic friendship or the most urgent business. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z But the dawning of the Internet age promised to resurrect the ideal of what the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton has called the “protean self.” The Web Means the End of Forgetting 2010-07-21T14:59:00Z Just as the personal computer was an ambassador for hacker principles because it put this protean device into peoples' homes, the Internet was even more so, because it was built completely on openness. Steven Levy On Mark Zuckerberg, Hacking Heroes 2010-07-02T18:00:00Z Ellison has maintained his status as the leader of a powerhouse in the topsy-turvy, protean technology world. Special Report: Can that guy in Ironman 2 whip IBM in real life? 2010-05-12T21:20:00Z Yet it had so many guises, so many protean forms. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z He remains an indisputably substantial, even protean, political figure. The Gordon Brown years, through highs and lows to grinding endurance 2010-04-05T22:54:00Z And sometimes the very highest and the very lowest developments of the protean religious instinct may be seen in a single mind. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The Stomach.—It were futile to attempt to enumerate all the protean manifestations of disturbance which proceed from a disordered stomach. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The man's body twitched and jerked as the Zark's protean cells passed through the adaptive process, and as the last leukocyte recoiled from tissue that had suddenly become normal, his consciousness returned. Insidekick There was grandeur in it somewhere, poise, dignity, beauty; yet this subtle alertness too, and this swift protean sparkle. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z The mineral, carbonate of lime, assumes an immense diversity of characters, though no one doubts that, under all these protean changes, it is one and the same thing. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse This is the field of the protean poetic imagination inspired by religious intuition, not of the rigorous dogmatist. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius And the voice of the tenor rose above that many-toned, protean, orchestrated poem with warm persuasion, wailing into inconsolable laments. Their Son; The Necklace She walked away, and seemed intently watching the sea, of whose protean face she never wearied; and, puzzled and tantalized, Dr. Grey turned to examine the unfinished picture. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part The enemy—the old and protean enemy, who had been fought down as Fascist, Nazi, Shintoist, Communist, Atomist, Americanist and God knew what else for a bloody century—had grown craftier with time. The Sensitive Man Quite possibly I had been so drilled in hatred of Standard Oil that I unconsciously revolted from the notion that any good could come out of that protean enterprise! Aliens This would seem too great a variation even in this protean species. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species I noted that wherever a situation analogous to one in the Wagnerian music-drama presented itself the music of the protean younger Richard was coloured by memories of the elder composer. Ivory Apes and Peacocks A marvelous piece of work, that, but no less marvelous than the protean changes that Bolton himself could make in his appearance. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Yet she brought to society and politics much of that protean activity which was the distinction of her teacher Voltaire in the field of letters. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Of the Hymenomycetes, the greater part belong to Agaricus: there are but four or five Polypori in Zeyher’s collection, one of which is protean. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses This mighty but protean feeling I shall attempt to define on broader principles than has hitherto been done. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion She dogged his thoughts with most unmaidenly insistence; her image lay in wait for him at every cross-road of association; it was something vivid yet elusive, protean yet persistent. Audrey Craven The Scottish ballads may scarce be so multitudinous and protean a host as this. The Balladists Famous Scots Series He is the most notorious international spy in the world—a protean individual with aliases, professions, and experiences sufficient for an entire jail full of criminals. The Dark Star Negro slavery is but one of the protean forms of disfranchised humanity. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II This enormous error, which is protean in form, has naturally induced the counter error of a too great insistence on the consciousness and elaboration of Shakespere's art. A History of Elizabethan Literature Our protean enemy took his most fearful form in the War when he became a Hidden Hand. Waiting for Daylight Verily this protean, omnipresent, and malignant devil has proved himself a great convenience! Moon Lore Grimes had often disguised himself so well as different people that he might have made something by the art in a “protean turn” on the vaudeville stage. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City How many a human being suffers from chronic constipation and indigestion, the exciting causes of which are insidious, and the consequences a protean enemy to his happiness! Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis They are more to be dreaded than the protean devil of which you speak. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad Of all the protean forms of misery that meet us in the bosom of that "stony-hearted stepmother, London," there is none that appeals so directly to our sympathies as the spectacle of a destitute child. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Mars with its canals and mossy deserts loomed ahead—swerved aside, and was behind them, Jupiter with its red clouds and its protean “eye” reached out for them and was left behind. Hunters Out of Space In Cairo it was believed and printed that the spacecraft was manned by creatures of protean structure, remarkably resembling legendary djinns. Long Ago, Far Away But on the whole, the most important symptom of chronic inflammation of the lower bowel, and the most far-reaching in its morbific results, is that protean monster, chronic constipation. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis Mr. Parris and Mr. Noyes contrived to preach from their pulpits sermons on protean devils and monsters of the air, until the more credulous of their congregations were almost driven to insanity. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad It is only as we capture one of the little protean acrobats between our finger-tips and examine him with a magnifier that we can really make "head or tail" of his queer anatomy. My Studio Neighbors The second was a huge nebula that pulsed and spouted flame and protean worlds into space—enveloped them again as it breathed, scared them, and cast them out once more. Hunters Out of Space The passion of love, so hedged about with curious and unreal conventions, is a strangely protean thing. Good Old Anna Hence the homology of the elephant-headed god with the other dragons is further established and shown to be genetically related to the evolution of the protean manifestations of the dragon's form. The Evolution of the Dragon There is only one Mephistopheles; but he is protean in shape. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Remembering the other originals, crowding the pages of the story in its integrity, how one would have liked to have seen even a few more of them impersonated by the protean Novelist! Charles Dickens as a Reader He is still in a beneficent state of primeval and exquisite prophylaxis, of benign chemical purity, of protean moral asepsis. Europe After 8:15 Manifestly a term so protean is not susceptible of translation into the more highly differentiated language of civilization. The Siouan Indians By thee the tired and torpid mind conceives Fairer than roses brightening life's gloom, Thy protean charm can every form assume And turn December nights to April eves. The Little Tea Book To attempt a description of its external phenomena were a hardy task�much more to grapple with its protean influences on the souls of men. Nature Mysticism It would be tedious to the reader, and useless for our present purpose, to detail the history and describe the protean shapes of her sufferings. Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls The ludicrous is in its character so elusive and protean, and the field over which it extends is so vast, that few have ever undertaken the task of examining it systematically. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour But this protean plastic takes innumerable forms and almost as many names. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries Love is protean, makes but a step from dalliance to grandeur. Idolatry A Romance Ah, sit down," November interrupted quickly, pitching his protean accents to a key of cajolery—"sit down and have another. The Day of Days An Extravaganza It is necessary for us to get familiar with some of the protean metamorphoses of matter. Among the Forces That is the shoe of swiftness and the magic sword by which the President can pierce and outrun the protean enemy of sophistry and tradition which prevents him from asserting his power. American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) And, indeed, any bright day in summer, from my window, Dockland with its goblin-like chimneys might be the enchanted country of a child's dream, where shapes, though inanimate, are watchful and protean. London River The protean nature of his genius aroused universal wonder. Jaffery In Hobo Land the face of life is protean—an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road. The Road By pitch and stress and intonation, the protean oath was made to perform every function of ordinary speech. A Daughter of the Snows Mr Aiken's incubus is, unfortunately, devoid of definition; he is protean and unsatisfactory. Aspects of Literature Superstition, perhaps, always precedes theology; but as surely does superstition outlive any one form of its protean rival. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow For one single second I understood clearly that the past and the future exist actually side by side in one immense Present; that it was I who moved to and fro among shifting, protean appearances. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories There would be no good in prolonging the story of this wrestle; there was a certain sameness in every phase, though the dangers seemed to change with such protean swiftness. A Dream of the North Sea The protean principle of phlogiston was always at hand, and, by skilful management, was ready to adapt itself to any facts. The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry Suffice it here, however, for the present to note that such differentiation does take place, without entering into the classification and comparison of the protean types of patrician and plebeian throughout geography and history. Civics: as Applied Sociology How often we can trace all the forms of the first-named protean disease to such causes is only too well known to every physician, and their connection with cardiac troubles is also well understood. Wear and Tear or, Hints for the Overworked These sonnets are protean in character; they represent different things to different people,—religion to one, love to another, philosophy to a third. Emerson and Other Essays They are protean, but usually prefer to wear a miniature human form. A Textbook of Theosophy The worries of parents are protean, as are all other worries, and those herein named must be taken merely as suggestions as to scores of others that might be catalogued and described in detail. Quit Your Worrying! For, whatever they may be, they favour the growth of sentimentality, the protean and indescribably subtle enemy of common sense. The Author's Craft It was necessary, however, for the scheme of the book, which includes a consideration of the protean forms in which human thought has found expression, to quote some exotic instances. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Curiosity, thoughtless mirth, mock humility, and other symptoms of the protean vice are painted by a master. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters She is protean; she is at once an invariable formula and an individual caprice; she is a law governing the universal multitude, and a passion swaying the unit. Overland Any definition sufficiently elastic to include the protean forms assumed by what we call the 'pastoral ideal' could hardly have sufficient intension to be of any real value. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Modern conditions are still more favourable than antique story for the exhibition of this protean quality of woman, providing her with opportunities of still more startling contrasts of transformation. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays In short, the difference was that of intensity or energy in one or other of its protean forms; it did not extend more deeply into the structure of the characters. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Which would indicate that Stella Kamps, in her protean endeavours, had overplayed the parts just a trifle. Cheerful—By Request And whence comes Life,—that occult Force, So rich in its prolific range, So frail and swift to run its course, Yet deathless in protean change? Poems Imagine Byron or Shelley, who knew the ocean in all its protean moods, piping such thin feebleness as "The blue, the fresh, the ever free!" Ponkapog Papers Communication networks are very flexible and protean, especially when their hardware becomes sufficiently advanced. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier Similarly protean was the thought his phrases tried to clothe. The Centaur But Ibsen, without impatience, examines under his microscope all the protean forms of organic social life and coldly draws up his diagnosis like a report. Henrik Ibsen Yet it has to be remembered that agriculture is a protean industry. The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity Whatever forms our enemies take, fellowship with God will invest us with a defence as protean as our perils. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah The protean quality of software is one of the great sources of its fascination. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier Really there is only one figure, a protean one, in the realm of practical life, to whom the poet may look to save his reputation. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Under the protean play the snow changed its dress to lilac. Tales of the Wilderness But agriculture, as I said, is protean and changes its forms perpetually. The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity The common root of every sin is selfishness, and the shapes which it takes are protean and interchangeable. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII The protean shape, seen in profile and foreshortened from the north or south, appears a block bristling with "Pins" and points, horns and beaks. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 But this sort of humility is really a protean manifestation of egotism, as is clear in the religious states that bear resemblance to the poet's. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Of all Shakespeare's qualities, his humor is the hardest to describe because of its protean forms. Halleck's New English Literature All these protean expressions of endocrine determination may now begin to be looked upon with the hopeful and optimistic attitude of him who understands cause and effect and can control. The Glands Regulating Personality He was seeing his protean hostess in a new role. The Little Lady of the Big House It then simply resolves itself into one of those exceptional instances of what is called a protean form. The Antiquity of Man Now, by such arts as are known to those who have studied mysticism in any of its protean forms, Morris set himself to attempt communication with the unseen. Stella Fregelius Now, as Rogers watched her, he caught a flash of that raciness and swift mobility, that fluid, protean elasticity of temperament which belonged to the fairy kingdom. A Prisoner in Fairyland The Rabbi realized the wrong he had committed, and humbly begged pardon of the ugly man another of the protean forms adopted by Elijah. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 If you have time to send me a longer list of your protean genera, I will say if they seem to be protean here. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 There is one point connected with individual differences which is extremely perplexing: I refer to those genera which have been called "protean" or "polymorphic," in which species present an inordinate amount of variation. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition Dr. Moses, like many persons of his time and class, was a man of protean employment—joiner, barber, and what not. An Old Town By the Sea But persistence and a protean adaptability to meet his moods might accomplish something. Initials Only Their protean shapes are as long as they are numerous, representing not only times, but conditions. The Soul of the Far East Will the kinetic theory stand also the clinical test of controlling that protean disease bred in the midst of the stress of our present-day life? Origin and Nature of Emotions But father insisted on pursuing his favorite phantom, and a protean phantom it was, judging from the jobs he worked at. The Iron Heel An idea that can play so large a part in a life must necessarily have something of the complication and protean quality of life itself. The Research Magnificent |
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