Since I am an extremely avid roleplayer, I decided to create a character whose mentality and persona I could easily grasp. |
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All the symbolism of her persona was of no use to sway the mind of the majority who want the bases out. |
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This sharp-wittedness, the keen social satire and timely cultural references keep the persona fresh and spontaneous. |
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Allen, of course, hotly denies this, arguing that his lusty, maladroit, cowardly, witty and nebbish persona is a comic archetype. |
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Whatever the reason, his public persona seems guarded and calculating and his repeated protestations of humility usually fall flat. |
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While his on-air persona should not grow stale, Mr. McMahon is not the character he used to be. |
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Those whose persona is royal are of course kings or queens, or princes or princesses of principalities. |
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His persona is by turns clueless, sly and naughty, meekly desperate, monstrously infantile and always theatrically aware of his audience. |
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Personal conflict chipped away at the mask that hid her true persona from the world. |
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Of course it doesn't hurt that it's one of the songs where his matey big brother persona grates least. |
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Jen is neither a typical villain nor a persona of heroic proportions in the conventional sense of chivalry inherent in the notion of wuxia. |
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The issue presents the spirit and persona of our beloved Gurudeva in a most befitting manner. |
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He has, after all, always been a bit of an actor, with his chameleon persona and a voice that sometimes has a chummy, mockney tone. |
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Of course, his persona was one of golden husband and do-gooder WASP, something he's clearly revelling in chipping away at here. |
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Sounds like you're riding pretty high and you're no doubt attached to the persona you've crafted for yourself. |
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The lorette carried within her persona all the connotations of urban display and luxury consumption. |
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Remember that his lounge lizard, smooth-crooner persona was only fully realized after his loud rock years. |
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The public persona of a leader is important, but only as a way of communicating clearly and attractively a body of ideas. |
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Nor was he madcap, zany, and over-the-top like Robin Williams who in his public persona seems instinctively funny. |
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In my experience all it takes to shatter the take-charge persona of a master is a mildly sardonic tone or a heel to the nuts. |
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Instead of letting his partial paralysis become his recognizable characteristic, he lets his playing persona speak on the murderball court. |
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The bearded, gravel-voiced Zimmer even stars in his own ads, because he believes his everyman persona calms shoppers. |
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They considered dramatic monologue, dramatic irony, persona as mask, and so on. |
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During that early time, he had a musical persona that was street-smart swagger mixed with affection for all the losers and down-and-outs. |
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Future film attempts to portray Arabs objectively must challenge the stereotypes of an Arab persona that is diametrical to accepted values. |
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Intensifying this sense of alienation, Border Brujo assumes the persona of a pachuco or cholo. |
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This persona I present to you all on here, while in many ways that of my own, is also of that someone else I'd like to be. |
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When a famous person promotes a foodstuff, their public persona acquires a nurturing, human edge. |
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His public persona has been moulded and redefined so as to render him acceptable to all. |
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The tendency is to build acceptable traits into the persona and to keep unacceptable traits hidden or repressed. |
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The narrating persona admits that he cannot understand the unformed mind of the younger man he is describing. |
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Either you'll be enthralled by his underplayed persona or drift aimlessly and inattentively away from his soporific compositions. |
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It would seem no coincidence that the cool, passionless persona emerged at the time of the break-up of her marriage. |
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Yet his stern, fearsome presence creates the perfect penetrable entity, a persona ripe for revelations to bounce off of and reflect on. |
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His combustible persona waxed hot against those he saw as enemies of righteousness and justice, attracting true believers to its incandescence. |
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He had found a persona that he could comfortably inhabit and that would attract customers here and abroad. |
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His comfortableness in the persona brings us that much closer to his pathos. |
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Moretti handles the material with considerable grace and skill, though the smugness and solipsism of his screen persona occasionally grates. |
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Facing virtual disownment, Victor must now struggle to reconcile his outdoor persona with his indoor realities. |
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She was nice enough, but she seemed to interpret my quiet persona as a sign that I should have a really basic haircut. |
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The cockiness and latent volatility of his off-screen persona is sadly absent. |
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They are trying to get around Dean's fight-back persona by portraying him as a dyspeptic, impetuous fool. |
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But the cuddly domesticated Osborne was far less eccentric, and far less distinctive, than his onstage persona had led audiences to expect. |
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But I developed a cocky persona to distance ourselves from the drippy bands of the time. |
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Barbie has a clearly established persona and a thoroughly pervasive presence as a white living doll. |
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Gracious and soft-spoken in interviews, Cave's offstage persona is the opposite of his electrifying stage self. |
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Many people have stated how the persona they present on their blog, while being largely true, is only part of their real selves. |
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On the contrary, the Kaiser's perceived public and private persona was one of these problems. |
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However, remember the public persona and the private person are two very different people. |
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That was way before we got together, and it was the only glimmer of my plastered persona that she's seen. |
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The chairman has built a hugely effective public persona built on irascibility. |
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Benigni's comic persona has proved as irresistible to Americans as to Italians. |
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It probably seems unnecessary to write a corny eulogy for a man whose TV persona virtually defined corniness for over three decades. |
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By day, as a student living with his genteel hosts, he cultivates the persona of a bookish young man given to headaches and dizzy spells. |
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He famously adopted the stage persona of an affectless drunk, only to turn, after his son's death, into a genuine dipso. |
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The anima imprints the persona. As such, over time, examination of the persona may allow insight into the anima. |
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He creates a new persona. This new persona allows him to realize his anima traits. |
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Her minor, piffling persona and relatively plain features render her ineffective as a fiery femme fatale. |
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But I think there's a tendency to choose the latter for moral reasons and, ugh, a morality of pop music persona is like a metaphysics of pudding. |
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Rather, he revels in confounding his audience and the media, cultivating a persona rife with contradictions. |
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His on-screen persona is generally snide and mean-spirited, and usually not very funny at all. |
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She hated playing vamps, and she makes the most of every chance to expand her screen persona presented in this movie. |
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She is, though, a consummate pop role-player with a bubblegum voice and persona she can wrap around anything. |
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He was celebrated on stage and in penny dreadfuls, and took on a new folkloric persona as a waylayer of solitary travellers. |
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But whatever the insouciant stage persona said, underneath Smith desperately wanted approval. |
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A perceptive woman, gifted with a modern vision, a frank subjectivity and a libidinous persona which invited attention from her contemporaries. |
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She accepts that her BBC persona helped clinch the column, but points out that she was a newspaper freelance long before becoming a TV reporter. |
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If he was daunted by the magnitude of the task, Gurley's public persona did not display it. |
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He combined his Gothic physical persona with a set of gauchely theatrical mannerisms, a non-stop performance of poetical sensitivity. |
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Both aspects of the rapper's persona contribute to his or her commercial success. |
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Kenny Anthony, with his freshly acquired movie-star public persona, was as a ray of sunshine to the inexplicably depressing atmosphere. |
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As his views and his persona both became better known, he was widely regarded as a goofball. |
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Of course she's dressed in another pair of kinky boots indicative of her femme fatal stage persona but there's no calculated synthetic chic here. |
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Owen Wilson has a smarmy-cool, utterly natural screen persona of smiles, cheeky ad-libs and ironically understated wisecracks. |
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I thought I'd make the most of it and adopt a more sinister persona for three or four performances. |
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Michelle Goldberg on how the once-unstoppable Senate Finance Committee Chair became persona non grata on the left, too. |
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Since a lot of what we do is done for the benefit of others, trying to make good impressions, the few unguarded glimpses behind someone's persona are truly precious. |
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Har Mar, meanwhile, still relatively unknown in this country, has cleverly made the Vladivar ads into a vehicle for selling his own persona as much as the product. |
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Her combination of skill and public persona left an indelible mark on the fashion world. |
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To some extent this is a public, formal persona that is belied by the intimacy and voluble conversation shared by good friends and family members. |
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He also has a bulldog persona that is a strength and an occasional burden. |
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The actor showed tremendous range in the role, bouncing between his wacky stand-up persona and gentler dramatic work. |
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The commentator adopts this persona to expatiate on a variety of topics. |
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But Cocker proved to be a survivor, bringing his passionate persona to concert halls around the world decade after decade. |
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Yet if it is power the initial persona seeks, the stakes would surely need to be higher than the pleasure of manipulating a few docile and credulous tourists. |
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This, however, does not mean that Chorny can return to Bulgaria, because the Interior Ministry last autumn issued a further order declaring him persona non grata. |
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It becomes hectic with the same actors changing persona within seconds. |
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After their relationship is consummated, the corrupted Beatrice Joanna becomes aware of the contradiction between her outward persona and her secret life of sin. |
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Even straight men, so often skittish and easily threatened, found his aw-shucks persona and mildly sarcastic, I'm-in-on-the-joke attitude congenial. |
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Indeed, in as much as clothes define us, Hurley had the strange distinction of having her persona defined by a dress. |
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As a result of the FBI designation, ICP was persona non grata in numerous places, including many potential Gathering sites. |
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My flip, polite persona masks a smouldering and wrathy incredulity as I learn that another revivalist is stepping up to accept officialdom's accolade. |
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As before, the drawings supported a rock persona writ large. |
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At one point he regresses back into his CID persona from years ago. |
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From every act, from every word of the persona he has presented to the camera since the early 1970s, there emanates at once a mediocrity and a magnetic allure. |
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His celebrity status rivals, if not far surpasses, the Warholian persona that Koons embodies and embeds within his own work. |
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In a millisecond, they segue back from a real person with envy and memories and a life before this one into the more comfortable persona of corporate prattler. |
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In plain terms, his personal life throughout the 1990s was a million miles removed from the cool, casual persona which has attracted viewers of I'm A Celebrity in droves. |
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The airlines typically insist on a degree as it shows that you can stick with something, have a well-rounded social-academic persona and are an achiever. |
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You seem to imply criticism, but this is surely my misinterpretation, given you don't permit comments at all on your blog, and have an anon persona to boot. |
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Two of the biggest of those, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, are currently persona non grata in much of the Western world. |
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Unfortunately, too much of Blige's appeal is wrapped up in her gruff, streetwise persona and not enough is focused on her enjoyable but often pedestrian musical instincts. |
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He saw no need to rebrand the image and it is unlikely that he could have done so even if he had since the persona he had assumed from the beginning was too deeply ingrained. |
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This perfect persona Lopez has created has zapped her of much of her relatability, especially in her music. |
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He transcends his screen persona and ensures a masterly performance. |
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I told him I often had to replace an online persona with the real world personality and the two entities often had a bit of a slugfest battling out who would be dominant. |
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He was more a matinee idol rather than an actor, and I have to admit his persona outstripped anyone on the screen in his day with the exception of Marlon Brando. |
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His public persona is that of a strong, determined leader, but in private life he's very insecure. |
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He could be unbearably glib, but his patrician persona and acid tongue, his radiating sense of superiority, made for good showbiz. |
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The anima represents the female traits that a man's persona lacks. |
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Let him know how comfortable you are without this hard-shell persona and over time he may start feeling less vulnerable about showing his emotions. |
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He has a long background of becoming persona non grata in places where he has struggled against what he considers to be endemic rottenness in society. |
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Egypt expelled the Turkish ambassador last year, prompting Ankara to declare the Egyptian envoy in Turkey persona non grata. |
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A later unscrupulous Pope decided to conflate the sundry Biblical Marys into the single persona of Mary Magdalene to avoid confusing the lumpen faithful of the times. |
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Considering how one-dimensional the persona is he does a pretty good job of it, aided by the cast of thousands and a script with pretty good taste in bad taste. |
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For his part, Newt Gingrich has clearly been honing his persona as condescending, arch, snide Big Thinker. |
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Those who knew him away from the studio observed that he was somewhat shy, and the persona he created helped him to be a commanding presence on the set. |
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The 21-year-old British sensation is neither flashy nor larger-than-life, forgoing glamour for a refreshingly unrefined persona as a smack-talking rabble-rouser. |
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And as many of the wealthy women are well known, their public persona can stymie the process. |
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But sometimes, when art imitates life, the off-screen persona of an actor can lend an extra layer to a performance. |
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James Watson, of the Nobel Prize-winning team that discovered the structure of DNA, played up his curmudgeonly persona to the max. |
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He has the public persona of a well-born man who has upon occasion been a tourist among the disadvantaged. |
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The anger was no longer present, but the chilly persona still lingered. |
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But by opposing the myth of the objective reporter, don't you risk falling into the trap of your onscreen persona and the personality cult that grows up around it? |
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I found myself wandering, freezing cold, on the streets of uptown Waterloo, loudly having a discussion about the theoretical persona of a student. |
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That this is an elegy only makes the poem more poignant, makes the grief of the persona part of the political indignation, complicates the emotional nexus of the voice. |
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The titular hero does not appear in propria persona to take a prominent part in the action until late in the novel, though he appears in disguise earlier. |
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Half of the six and seven-year-olds dressed up as gentry, while the rest of the youngsters took on the persona of chimney sweeps and pickpockets. |
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This came from a combination of his business persona and his political one. |
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Observe And Report HANDS up all those utterly fed-up of Seth Rogan's loveable dufus persona already. |
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The dagger tattooed on his cheek conveys a menacing persona. |
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But that fun, sensuous persona concealed a history of tragedy. |
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Critical studies have been clouded by Thomas's personality and mythology, especially his drunken persona and death in New York. |
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Chaplin adopted the character as his screen persona and attempted to make suggestions for the films he appeared in. |
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I have to say I preferred the more vulnerable persona on display in Big Chef tokes on Little Chef. |
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Soon, Bowie's pteromerhanophobia was as much a part of the star's persona as any other aspect of his career. |
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Ergo, it does not behove Liverpool FC to rebuild Suarez's persona with a donation that is aimed to appeal to the heartstrings. |
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The band takes on a whole new persona when they perform live. |
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In developing the Tramp costume and persona, he was likely inspired by the American vaudeville scene, where tramp characters were common. |
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Merissa's current persona is based on Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way of the legendary Harry Potter Mary Sue trollfic My Immortal. |
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Whatever persona she adopts, Dyer is framed lovingly by her husband. |
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Elegies written in the persona of its dispossessed rulers record the sorrow at this loss. |
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One of the most popular was Harry Lauder, whose persona as a bekilted Scots vaudeville minstrel was instantly recognized world-wide. |
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Bilateral relations have been at a low since the military regime declared the Turkish ambassador to Cairo persona non grata last month. |
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Moviegoers found John Gilbert's voice an awkward match with his swashbuckling persona, and his star also faded. |
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Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number. |
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She was then asked to sign a document that said she was entered as a persona non grata in the Greek national register. |
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Michael Moore's false enactment of the working class persona only serves to fetishize the working class and the collapse of the American dream. |
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In fact, several details of this passage belong exclusively to his auctorial persona. |
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Smith explains how Sylvester Clark, a man of mixed black, Lumbee, Cherokee, and white ancestry created a persona as the son of a Blackfoot Chief. |
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Graham Fellows, in his persona as John Shuttleworth, uses his Sheffield accent, though his first public prominence was as cockney Jilted John. |
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Trouble is, our 'hero' is an alcoholic coward a million miles from his on-screen persona as a hardass zombie slayer. |
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If Arjun's young mechanic is a deceptive scowler, Dimple's regal aura exposes a highly flawed side to her persona at one point. |
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But in the film directed by Doug Liman, the action-star persona of Cruise is put into a phantasmagorical blender. |
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In Delia, Samuel Daniel turns from the reckless and rueful Astrophil in his persona to a narrative stressing the superior power of virtue and the eternization of Delia. |
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Marcel Marceau said he was inspired to become a mime artist after watching Chaplin, while the actor Raj Kapoor based his screen persona on the Tramp. |
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The speaker of section IV of The Yellow Book is just as much a persona as van Meegeren in 'The Forger', and just as capable of feints and fakeries. |
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He soon developed the Tramp persona and formed a large fan base. |
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The group of promoters and managers are planning to declare Koncz persona non grata, barring the Canadian adviser from doing business in the Philippines. |
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His name and persona have also featured heavily in literature. |
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From late 1971, already a minor star, David Bowie developed his Ziggy Stardust persona, incorporating elements of professional makeup, mime and performance into his act. |
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Her thunderous spikes are almost unstoppable, and her fierce persona on the hardcourt seems to belie the bubbly girl with the ever-ready infectious smile. |
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The authorities also went as far as calling him a persona non grata. |
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Dara, who delivered an outstanding display of such comic crotchetiness on BBC2's Room 101, carries on by underlining why this persona functions so effectively in stand-up. |
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Here we enter the realm of metafiction as our narrational frame of reference or persona begins to reflect on the circumstances of his own text's composition. |
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Sadat is portrayed in all his contradictory glory, as visionary and paranoiac, his pious, austere public persona at sharp odds with an ostentatious private lifestyle. |
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In the persona of the projector the typically English civilizational malady of spleen brought on by newfangled consumerism finds an ogrish expression. |
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The artist seems in thrall to a tabloid persona that is not the real Amy. |
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She has created a memorable persona in the anti-heroine Micky Knight. |
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It happened less than a month after he met her, while they watched a video of Ingmar Bergman's Persona. |
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Persona non grata at Honda, and unbeloved by Michelin, his options are few, and his high profile comes with a high risk. |
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Wong's restaging, notably, continues a theme that is already present in Persona, that of the tenuousness of singular personhood. |
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The Lotus-engineered Persona is powered by a Campro engine, which promises smooth drivability and ride comfort. |
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The FDA recently announced a Class II recall for Zimmer's Persona Trabecular Metal Tibial Plate knee implant, affecting all lots and sizes of the knee implant. |
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The first Persona satellite was launched onto a sun synchronous orbit in July 2008 but reportedly malfunctioned in February 2009 due to a failure in electronic components. |
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