| But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things. |
| But Stravinsky was – like his great contemporary Picasso – a restless, protean genius, incapable of treading water. |
| It is no wonder the protean character of the enlightener has perplexed mythologers, for he is a perpetual paradox. |
| However, I am pursuing a different sense of the protean term Machiavellian in what follows. |
| Augustine is a protean thinker, a man whose major works range so widely as to defy the summary and commentary we can present for Athanasius. |
| Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a protean character who seems to alter with each costume change. |
