| Such values are flexible, protean in nature, varying even from film to film. |
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| Rembrandt was a protean artist, creating a Shakespearean range of subject and mood in his paintings, drawings and etchings. |
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| George Orwell once described England as a protean creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same. |
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| But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things. |
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| It is a protean creature, an uncertain character capable of fluctuating under pressure. |
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| 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. |
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| Nature is to be cared for, valued and respected in its protean variety and vitality. |
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| However, I am pursuing a different sense of the protean term Machiavellian in what follows. |
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| His protean ability to assume different roles in his poems is often described as theatrical. |
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| It is no wonder the protean character of the enlightener has perplexed mythologers, for he is a perpetual paradox. |
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| Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a protean character who seems to alter with each costume change. |
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| More recently, Canadian Supreme Court Justice Ian Binny expressed a related worry opining that privacy is protean. |
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| Yet how, in this age of protean trends and indecipherable jargon, are we to draw the line? |
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| Equally protean and conniving, she is his partner in crime and spirit. |
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| This protean figure is also a few fibers shy of the flayed red man on the House Bolton sigil from Game of Thrones. |
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| But Stravinsky was – like his great contemporary Picasso – a restless, protean genius, incapable of treading water. |
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| Water, despite its protean appearance, has a lot of internal structure, particularly when it is cool. |
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| For an otherwise protean woman, such sentiments probably do come from conviction. |
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| Could they bring me the clause that provides for this sort of protean development? |
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| We now have to deal with infra-state or trans-state organizations that tend to be more diffuse, elusive and protean. |
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| That of Eric Lévi, 47 years old, protean musician and the soul behind Era who have just released a new album, The Mass. |
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| The human problem in the talmudic conception is not finding the motive force to do, but discovering the restraint to regulate that protean force. |
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| An added argument is that the adversary is now protean and not worthy of respect, particularly when it comes to terrorists. |
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| As you stare at the protean work, the massive, fake, ink landscape fools you. |
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| All language is protean, a moment-in-time snap-shot of evolution in action. |
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| Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the protean life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations. |
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| He never lets his learning cloud his enthusiasm for this wide and protean subject and his writing shares the awe of the poets who preceded him on this journey. |
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| Such contradictions generally enhance the text, for they present an attractive protean self, one willing to learn and change when confronted with new knowledge. |
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| Born in 1948, he remains for many the heir to Gabin and Belmondo, a versatile, protean actor whose rugged looks are belied by his sensitivity and talent. |
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| Lupus is a protean disease that can cause inflammation in just about every part of the body, including the synovium. |
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| Their protean sound lifts them above the legions of second-rate math rockers who think it's enough simply to noodle around with shifting time signatures and obscure chords. |
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| The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality. |
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| The Internet is too protean and easy to penetrate to be corralled by either the power of money or lobbyist influence-peddling. |
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| This complex and protean process, requiring great ethical capacity and creativity as well as a major deployment of energy to meet the participation goals, is what we call new governance. |
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| Charlotte herself participated in some of the sonic experimentation and the resulting album is an impressively protean work which meanders freely between folk, pop and electronica. |
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| For over three decades, William Sheller has neatly sidestepped critics' attempts at musical pigeon-holing, asserting his right to be a protean artist with ever-changing moods and styles. |
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| Scrub typhus is a common infectious disease in tropical countries but has protean manifestations. |
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| Founded in 1994 as part of a humanitarian operation in Rwanda, Autremonde as such belongs to the multifarious and protean world of non-governmental organisations. |
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| Huge bolts of cloth, green, yellow and pink, seem to writhe and ripple, as if alive, as if they aspire to that condition of protean shapelessness possessed by water. |
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| Not only did the event offer a major protean group exhibition, it also allowed the students in charge of the project to develop their organizational skills. |
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| Terrorism is a protean notion difficult to address, in part because there are only a few international treaties and limited case law on which to draw. |
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| Central to our action is respect for cultural diversity, regarded both as a protean and essential asset in all aspects of life, and as a fundamental solution going side by side with development projects. |
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| Of all social phenomena none is perhaps as protean and, consequently, as unsusceptible to binary classification as religion. |
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| Any type of vessel in any tissue may be affected. Thus, the clinical manifestations of vasculitis are protean and can affect many different organs. |
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| I would remark that, topographically, Modern London is essentially Protean, and there can be no finality in its depiction. |
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| Such an escape strategy of unpredictable movements is known as Protean evasion, after the Greek river god who eluded capture by continually changing form. |
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| 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. |
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