| Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a protean character who seems to alter with each costume change. |
| George Orwell once described England as a protean creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same. |
| Rembrandt was a protean artist, creating a Shakespearean range of subject and mood in his paintings, drawings and etchings. |
| 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. |
| His protean ability to assume different roles in his poems is often described as theatrical. |
| Such values are flexible, protean in nature, varying even from film to film. |
